In 1974, Evangelos Averof was Minister of Foreign Affairs in the government of Konstantinos Karamanlis. In his address to the parliament, Averof had said about the Cyprus tragedy:They accused us then because we did not send the Phantoms to Cyprus. Phantom we had received 18 in total. By order of Kar
The abandonment – betrayal for others – of Cyprus took place, without a doubt, on the crucial days between July 15 and 20, 1974. On those days, on the one hand, Makarios asked for the assistance of the guarantor forces and on the other else some in Athens attempt to entertain the feeling of an imm
Ioannis Boubaras was born at the end of the 19th century in the mountainous village of Vlasti Eordaia, southwest of Ptolemaida. The village offered to the Nation the new martyr Markos and his lads in the various revolutions of the Greeks against the Turks. Father Kosmas Aitolos had passed through th
Once upon a time, even in the midst of the horrible German, Italian and Bulgarian occupation, Greek children did not occupy, did not hold demonstrations in favor of murderers, did not burn the Flag, the sacred symbol of the Nation. This is a story about those Greek children, of war and occupation, t
Greece has always produced, among other things, warriors. Already from Mycenaean times, Greek mercenaries fought in the service of foreign states and kings. Among the best known were the Myrians, or the famous Spartan Carthaginian general Xanthippos. Another very little to little known was Alexon
With wall paintings in Greek, the members of a Norwegian-French archaeological expedition discovered in the Oasis of Baharea, what is considered to be the oldest monastic monument, perhaps not only in Egypt, but worldwide. It is a monument that has been built gradually over a period of time between
One of the most unknown, although victorious, battles of the ancient Greeks against their eternal rivals in the West, the Carthaginians, took place in Kavala, Sicily. There is little information about the battle buried in the mist of centuries. Not even the exact year of its holding has been preserv
The battle of Peta, on July 4, 1822, was one of the most disastrous for the Greek arms during the Revolution of 1821. But it was also one of the most glorious where the Greek regular soldiers, a few Philhellenes and Iptanesians, fought something more than heroic although they knew that the barbarian
My dear child, I am writing you these lines with eyes full of tears and a heart frozen with terror, Sarina Saltiel wrote to her son Maurice on March 17, 1943, two days after his departure. of the first death train to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Two days after that first whistle blew at the old railway stati
Kioutahis Pasha, head of strong Turkish forces, had invaded Attica in July 1826. After a series of clashes, he confined the much smaller Greeks to the Acropolis. On September 30, the guard of the Acropolis, Ioannis Gouras, was killed. Taking advantage of the fact, Kioutachis launched continuous atta
Amos the first Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty and the brother of Kamos, the last king of the 17th Dynasty, was a special personality of ancient history. He was the Pharaoh who freed the slave in the Syro-Canaanite Hyksos part of Egypt, unified the country and established it as a superpower of the then
With a comprehensive video that combines historical retrospect with todays reality, the Navy is celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Revolution of 1821. From the three fleets of the Revolution (Hydra, Spetses and Psara), the Branch, with a thundering presence in all the struggles of the Nation,
In Kavala, Drama and the wider area of eastern Macedonia, with the exception of the island of Thassos, there were no revolutionary movements against the Turkish yoke in 1821. For more than five and a half centuries, from 1325 to 1913, the Ottoman power was the dominant military and political power
This text is part of his original scientific work under the title The establishment of the Protection in Greece and the role of the English Party, taking into account the Geopolitics of Naval Powers in the Eastern Mediterranean Subsystem:Combined Neo-Marxist , Realist and Geopolitical Analysis, whic
The security battalions began to be formed in 1943, when the occupying government of I. Ralli realized that ELAS was trying to bring the country under its control, sidelining or even eliminating the other resistance organizations. Much has been said about these controversial sections indeed. The bat
At the beginning of the Revolution, a Turkish official expresses his concern for the fate of the Ottoman Empire, due to the fact that it is unjust to its subjects. On the occasion of the celebration of the national milestone of 200 years since the Revolution of 1821, ERT broadcasts every day a diffe
The healer of Asklepios and the ancient city of Moryllos are being searched by the archaeologists of the Ephorate of Antiquities of Kilkis under the settlement of Ano Apostolo, which is located eighteen kilometers southwest of the city of Kilkis. Crowds of people from neighboring or even more distan
The Gauls had attacked Greece, sowing terror and death. Nevertheless, they were eventually repulsed and forced to flee to Asia Minor. Crossing the Hellespont the barbarian Gauls began to plunder everything in their path. The Galatians poured out uncontrollably, destroying cities and villages. Someon
Greece and Turkey (Ottoman Empire) clashed, unofficially, several times after the revolution of 1821. The great crisis finally broke out with the explosion of the new Cretan revolution, in 1896. In February 1897, the Greek government sent to Crete a mixed detachment under the command of colonel Timo
In 1480, Mohammed II the Conqueror seemed to be absolute ruler in the Eastern Mediterranean after his victory over the Venetians. At that time, the Order of the Knights of Agios Ioannis was based in the Dodecanese. The knights had conquered the Dodecanese creating a small naval state that always con
The Achaean Commonwealth developed into a great power in Greece from the 3rd century BC. Its army, under good command, proved relatively adequate in intra-Hellenic conflicts, but was unable to withstand the mighty Roman war machine. The army of the Achaean Commonwealth initially consisted of divisio
Zhuge Liang , Sleeping Dragon , was a Chinese soldier and strategist of the kingdom of Shu during the period of the Three Kingdoms (Shu , Wei and Wu ) that disputed control of China after the fall of the Han dynasty . In addition to being a great strategist in the disposition of the troops and recon
The Vikings were people who inhabited Scandinavia, northern Europe, and who began incursions into different parts of the European continent from the 8th century onwards. The Vikings were a people who inhabited northern Europe (in Scandinavia), in a period known as the Viking Age, which spanned from
The tanker Lesvos was launched in 1942 as the USS Boone County. It was an LST 1 (Landing Ship Tanks) type tanker. The vessel had a displacement, with a full load, of about 4,000 tons. It was 100 m long and had a maximum speed of only 12 knots. It was armed with 40 and 20 mm anti-aircraft guns His