Perfect Spots for Walking in Downtown Athens
Athens is a great city for walking. Credit: A Savin/Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY-SA 3.0 The many fascinating views of the Greek capital, Athens...
TuneFab Spotify Music Converter Announced A Big Update to V3.1.19 with Speedy Performance Equipped
TuneFab Spotify Music Converter has launched the latest V3.1.19 with a breakthrough to greatly enhance music download efficiency, reaching u...
Former Prince of Greece Nikolaos Officially Announces Wedding to Chrysi Vardinogianni
Prince Nikolaos of Greece . Credit: Userleurisy / CC BY-SA 4.0 Former Prince of Greece Nikolaos, now known as Nikolaos De Grèce, has offic...
Exploring Nafplion, the First Capital of Modern Greece
Nafplion from above. Credit: Mtale /Wikimedia Commons/ CC BY 2.0 Known by almost every Greek citizen as the first capital city of modern G...
The Greek Jews Who Boxed for Their Lives to Survive Nazi Camps
Greek-Jewish boxers Salamo Arouch, above, and Jacko Razon, photo below, both of Thessaloniki, were forced to fight other prisoners in Nazi c...
Imia Crisis: The Closest Greece and Turkey Came to War
The Imia Crisis: When Greece Faced War with Turkey in the Aegean. Image: Imia. Credit: Public Domain As unlikely as it may seem, a dispute...
United States of the Ionian Islands: The History of British Rule in Greece
Corfu was a member of the United States of the Ionian Islands under British rule in Greece . Credit: Martin Falbisoner/Wikimedia Commons/ CC...
Pontic Greek Still Spoken by Thousands in Northern Turkey
The Sumela Monastery. Credit: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen / Wikipedia / CC BY-SA 3.0 Pontian Greeks may have been forced out of their homelan...
Phillis Wheatley: The First African-American Poet Knew Ancient Greek
Phillis Wheatley in the Boston Women’s Memorial. Credit: ckilger , CC-BY-NA-2.0 / Flickr In 1761, Phillis Wheatley, a young West African gi...
The Last Monk of a Monastery-Fortress on a Remote Greek Island
Father Grigorios, a Greek-Orthodox monk lived 38 years of his life in a monastery-fortress on the remote Ionian island of Strofades. Public ...
Eros and Psyche: The Greatest Love Story in Greek Mythology
Psyche is revived by the kiss of Love. Louvre Museum. Credit: Wikipedia/ gadgetdude /Public domain The hauntingly beautiful myth of Psyche...
When Greece Was About to Swap the Greek Alphabet for Latin
Konstantinos Karamanlis proposed Latinizing the Greek alphabet: Wikipedia CC0 In the mid 1970s when Prime Minister Konstantinos Karamanlis ...
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