The XVIII Infantry Division (MP) held the extreme left of the Metaxa Line in April 1941. The division with only five battalions held a line 40 km long with only one company in reserve. The forts of Istibey, Kelkagia, Arpalouki and Paliouriones also belonged to the divisions sector. The division had
The year 1571 was the turning point for the Ottoman Empire and by extension for Hellenism. For the first time, since 1453, the Turks suffered a terrifying military defeat, outside the Echinacea islands, in the so-called naval battle of Nafpaktos. The defeat of the Turks filled the Greeks with ho
On the occasion of the 950th anniversary of the Battle of Hastings, I return to the decisive events that culminated in the Norman conquest of England after that battle, which I discussed in the entries dedicated to the year 1066, Emma of Normandy, the coronation of William the Conqueror, Edgar Aethe
On December 5, 1946, the 4th Company of the 501st Battalion of the Rimini (3rd Mountain) Brigade, under Captain Sotirios Liarakos, was ordered to move from the village of Ampelonas Larisis to the village of Rodia, which is 7 km from Ampelonas and 20 from Larissa. The company had just 74 men, half it