War of Independence

On Saturday, March 13, 2021 the Order of AHEPA presented a recreation of an 1827 Ball which raised funds for the Greek War of Independence.

President Sakellaropoulou paid a visit to Areopolis  to attend the celebrations for the Bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence today.

The city of Los Angeles will mark Greece's bicentennial on March 25 by illuminating the iconic pylons outside its international airport, LAX.

Greece will honor Haiti for being the first nation in the world to recognize Greek independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1821.

The German Embassy in Athens will begin its year-long commemoration of the Greek War of Independence with a celebration of 21 German philhellenes.

The Chios massacre of 1822 was perhaps the worst atrocity carried out by the Ottomans against Greeks during the War of Independence. Approximately three-quarters of the population of 120,000 were killed, enslaved or died of disease after thousands of Turkish...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday approved the expansion of the Greece 2021 committee, which is responsible for designing and supervising the celebrations to mark the bicentennial anniversary of Greece’s War of Independence. Committee President Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki hailed the decision,...

Key events from the 1821 Greek War of Independence have now been recreated with plastic Playmobil figurines and accessories within dioramas. The colorful recreations were shown in an exhibition which opened on Tuesday at the National Historical Museum in...

Theodoros Kolokotronis is undoubtedly the ultimate symbol of the Greek War of Independence, which took place from 1821 to 1830.

For us Greeks, March 25, 1821 is a date that fills us with national pride. It marks our liberation from Ottoman rule and the start of the independent, modern Greek state. Yet historians beg to differ, ruining a good myth,...