Secure access to resources: The Balkans had rich natural resources, such as oil and minerals, which the Germans wanted to secure for their own use.
Weaken the Allied powers: The Germans wanted to weaken the Allied powers, particularly Great Britain and France, by disrupting their supply lines and denying them access to resources in the Balkans.
The Phoenicians had shown no initiatives of territorial conquest while they were dedicated to the establishment of commercial colonies on the coasts of Spain; but their relatives and successors, the Carthaginians, who failed in Sicily against the Greeks and then against Rome, tried to compensate for
The Bulgarian ruler Samuel, who, like the Greek Alexander, is appropriated today by the people of Skopje, had led the Bulgarian army from success to success, in the war against the Byzantines, establishing, in 997 AD. the First Bulgarian Empire, of which he was named tsar. The emperor of Byzanti
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PA Spitfire MJ755 returns on Thursday 27th May to Greece after a full rebuild to airworthy condition in the UK, to once again take to the Attic skies where it last flew 68 years ago. As stated by Mr. Dimitris Kolias, vice-president of the IKAROS foundation, which financed the reconstruction of th