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The heinous crime committed by Nazi troops in Kalavryta and surrounding areas in December 1943

50 years since the referendum that definitively abolished the monarchy in Greece.

Discover how Athens descended into chaos just weeks after its liberation from Nazi occupation during the December Events of 1944, a bloody conflict that became the prelude to the Greek Civil War.

Intent on delving a little deeper into the 1864 Constitution, we consult Messrs. Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Professor of Political Science at the University of Athens and Kostas C. Chrysogonos, Professor of Constitutional Law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

On 10 October 1963, one of the world’s greatest singers, the French chanteuse Edith Giovanna Gassion, who became a household name around the world under the stage name Edith Piaf, passed away. Edith Piaf was born in Paris on 19 December 1915. Her father Louis Alphonse was an acrobatic street performer and her mother Annetta Maillard […]

With 34 dead and 125 injured, the railway accident that took place on September 30, 1968 was one of the bloodiest in Greek history.

In 27 September 1831, Ioannis Kapodistrias, the first Governor of Greece and a figure who had contributed enormously to the Greek people’s struggle for freedom and independence, was assassinated in Nafplio by Konstantinos and Georgios Mavromichalis. As Kostas Kairofylas relates in the Eleftheron Vima of 25 September 1931: ‘On the evening of 26 September 1831, […]