Throughout the history of modern Greece, her people have been subject to expulsion from millennia-old…
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We published a story about a town in Turkey named Kayaköy (Levissi in Greek) that…
Historians know centuries-old stories about Greeks, democracy and Western civilization, but one story that most…
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On This Day June 12, 1914: Ancient Greek Community of Phocaea in Asia Minor is Massacred
A precursor to the fateful events that would happen less than a decade later in…
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On This Day June 3, 1941: What Happened to Cretan Villagers Who Resisted Invading Nazis?
The answer: The complete annihilation of their village and the massacre of 180 innocent people.…
On June 2, 1941 a brutal massacre took place in the village of Kondomari, just…
May 31, 1944 was a somber day in world history — when an ancient community was forever…
A month earlier on April 27, 1941 the invading Nazi army had victoriously entered the…
May 29, 1453 is known throughout the Greek world as a black anniversary — the…
Life Magazine carried the illustration back in June 1941, depicting an old Cretan villager “welcoming”…