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A Century Later World Finally Awakens to the Ottoman Genocide of Christians
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By Michael Goodyear*
In the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the Ottoman government under the Committee of Union and Progress (“CUP”) orchestrated massacres of its Christian minorities, resulting in ethnic cleansing that would lead to the deaths of hundreds...
Greece
Constantinople Reconstructed: The City Recreated in All its Glory (photos)
Images of the city of Constantinople just before it fell to the Ottomans in 1453 have been created by archaeologists and published in the Turkish magazine Κarar.
Constantinople was the largest and wealthiest city in Europe from the middle of the...
entertainment
Greek Filmmaker to Shoot Independence Epic in Amfissa
The Delphi region -- home to some of Greece's most outstanding archeological sites -- will play host to a new movie about the country's 19th-century independence struggle.
Director Vasilis Tsikaras' new movie Siege is to begin shooting in Amfissa in April...
Greece
Chios Celebrates 105th Anniversary of Liberation from the Ottomans (video)
105 years since the liberation of Chios from the Ottomans the people of the island are taking part in ceremonies to mark the occasion.
The celebrations culminated on Saturday with a parade in the centre of the capital city.
Leading the...
Greece
September 26, 1687: When the Venetians Bombarded the Parthenon
During the Ottoman rule in Greece, after the fall of Constantinople in 1453, the Parthenon was converted to a mosque, and the Erechtheion functioned as a harem.
In 1683, the Ottoman Empire was advancing in Europe trying to conquer as...