Peter Frankopan is Professor of Global History at Oxford University, where he is Stavros Niarchos Foundation Director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research and Senior Research Fellow at Worcester College, Oxford. He is also …
The Corinth Canal, the iconic 19th-century engineering project separating the Peloponnese from the Greek mainland, reopened to shipping early this July after an 18month closure for repair works. The Canal is the shortest and safest sea route for ves…
The National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum pays tribute to Konstantinos Parthenis, one of the most important representatives of modern Greek painting. "An ideal Greece in the art of Konstantinos Parthenis" is the first comprehensive retrospective…
The Canadian Institute in Greece has been operating in Athens since 1976 as an archaeological institute aiming to promote Canadian research and education in fields relating to Greece’s heritage, including significant archaeological fieldw…
Τhe Asia Minor Catastrophe constitutes a milestone in modern Greek History, leaving its indelible mark not only on the nation’s collective consciousness but also on its artistic, literary and cinematic depiction. Based on the book The Numbe…
Emilia Salvanou is a historian of modern and contemporary History, specialized in issues of memory, migration/refugeehood and historical culture. She studied History at the University of Athens, obtained her Ph.D. from the University of Aegean, and…
One of the milestones of 20th century Greek national narrative is the Asia Minor Catastrophe, i.e. the defeat of the Greek Army in the Greek-Turkish war (1919-1922) and the resulting wave of refugees of Greeks from Asia Minor to the Greek state. Lite…
The composition of the Greek soil, coupled with the relatively high sunshine duration, has contributed to the development of ceramic art in the country since the antiquity. To this day, the art of pottery has maintained its importance in many parts o…
The Athens News Agency reports on a gastronomic tour of Northen Evia; this three-day farm trip was a part of a “Meet your Makers” initiative, supported by the association "DIAZOMA" and sponsored by the SPEL [Associatio…
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