The historical site of Thermopylae became a battlefield not only in the famous conflict of 480 BC. but several more times in history. In 996 AD the Bulgarians, under Tsar Samuel, taking advantage of the involvement of the emperor Vasilios Bulgaroktonos with the Arabs, besieged Thessaloniki. However,
The outbreak of World War I found Greece divided. Prime Minister Eleftherios Venizelos sought the immediate inclusion of Greece in the war, on the side of the Entente. For him, tying Greece to the chariot of British politics was a one-way street. King Constantine, however, desired neutrality, which
Copyright:© Louis Glanzman, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Time magazine 1966, www.si.edu. The history of the Cold War is often seen as a conflict between two worlds. On the one hand the capitalist West, on the other the communist East. And yet, especially in Eastern E
Entry taken from the book The Plantagenets. In some blog posts we have dealt with issues related to the formidable English King Edward I, either from the time when his father Henry III still reigned and he was the heir to the crown (see the entries dedicated to the battle of Lewes and Simon de Montf