Category: HISTORY
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The Greek refugees who fled to the Middle East in WW2
The influx of more than a million refugees and migrants to the Greek islands in the past year has stirred up difficult memories for a dwindling group who followed the same route during World War Two, but in reverse. As German and Italian troops occupied Greece, tens of thousands of people fled by sea to…
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Seafaring & Shipbuilding | Athens | To May 28
The Herakleidon Museum in Athens presents “Voyage: Seafaring and Shipbuilding in Greece from Antiquity to Modern Times.” The show explores the history of maritime voyages and naval architecture through about 40 handmade wooden models of Greek ships which plied the seas from prehistoric times to the middle of the 20th century. The ship models were…
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Distillerie ZOTTOS: A Greek Family Affair
In 1984 I rented an apartment in the Cairo district of Mounira, just off Kasr el Aini Street in the center of the city. There was a small grocery store near my flat called Blue Nile. Today a Coptic family owns the store, but back then I believe it was still owned by its original…
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German Parliament Recognizes Armenian Genocide
BERLIN — The German Parliament overwhelmingly adopted a symbolic but fraught resolution on Thursday declaring the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 a genocide, escalating tensions with Turkey at a diplomatically delicate juncture. The Turkish government angrily denounced the vote as “null and void,” and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called his ambassador in Germany back to Ankara for consultations. “The way to…