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Eretria was one of the leading cities of Archaic Greece, a pioneer of overseas settlement alongside its neighbour Chalcis. Burned by the…
Read story →Athanasios Diakos fought in Central Greece and was captured after the defeat at Alamana. His execution in April 1821 entered popular song,…
Read story →Chalcis grew up where Euboea almost touches the mainland, beside the narrow Euripus strait. Its famously changeable currents and the bridges built…
Read story →Delphi became one of the most important Panhellenic sanctuaries. The priestess known as the Pythia delivered responses associated with Apollo, while treasuries…
Read story →Epaminondas became the leading figure of Theban power after Leuctra. Through repeated campaigns he helped free Messenia, supported new states and challenged…
Read story →Galaxidi, on the Corinthian Gulf, became a busy shipbuilding and shipowning town in the 18th and 19th centuries. Its captains' houses and…
Read story →Ioannis Makriyannis rose from merchant activity to military leadership during the Revolution. He later became a central supporter of the constitutional movement…
Read story →Georgios Karaiskakis rose from a difficult and uncertain early life to become one of the Revolution's most effective military leaders. His final…
Read story →Hesiod is associated with the Theogony and Works and Days. These poems organize divine genealogy and offer moral, agricultural and practical advice…
Read story →Hosios Loukas in Boeotia developed around the tomb and cult of the hermit Luke of Steiris. Its two connected churches preserve outstanding…
Read story →German occupation forces carried out mass reprisals in many parts of Greece. The massacres at Kalavryta in 1943 and Distomo in 1944…
Read story →Klephts were armed groups who lived beyond direct Ottoman control, while armatoloi served in officially recognized local security districts. The line between…
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