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On April 4, 1968 a Greek sporting triumph took place when AEK won the European Cup in basketball in front of 80,000 spectators at...

The Polytechnic School uprising against the military dictatorship 44 years ago; an overflow of resistance by the Greek people against the junta, is the...

It was early in the morning of July 20, 1974 when 40,000 Turkish troops invaded Cyprus from sea and air, catching the Cypriot armed...

The building where the former headquarters of the infamous Special Interrogation Sections of the Military Police (EAT-ESA) was housed will not be sold through...

Athenians who are over 50 years old probably have some memories of that Spring morning of April in 1967, when the radio was playing...

According to initial reports, this morning November 17, members of the leftist movements in Greece prevented SYRIZA officials in the northern Greek city of...

It was shortly before 8 a.m. on the morning of September 26, 1989 when two 45 shotguns aimed at and open-fired against New Democracy...

  By Leslie Absher Over thirty Christmases ago, my father gave me something it took many years to understand. It was the end of 1984 and...

On September 3, 1974 Andreas Papandreou formed the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK), the party that ruled for 20 years and marked post-dictatorship politics in...

The last king of Greece, Constantine Glucksburg, is leaving his long time residency in London, UK, and is planning to return to Greece. Glucksburg was Greece's...