Two Greek Women Buried Alive and Thrown to Snakes for Refusing to Convert in 1822
On April 13, 1822, Ottoman forces overran Naousa in northern Greece and carried out one of the most brutal episodes of the Greek War of Independence. In the…
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The Ottoman Sultan Who Burned 3,000 Armenians Alive in a Single Church
In December 1895, Ottoman forces locked roughly 3,000 Armenian men, women, and children inside the cathedral at Urfa and set it on fire. Every one of them…
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Greece Raises the Flag on the Acropolis, 82 Years After Liberation
Eighty-two years ago today, the last German troops pulled out of Athens after 1,264 days of brutal Nazi occupation. This morning, Evzones from the Presidential…
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Turkey Claims It Was Never Colonized. The Christian Populations It Erased Tell a Different Story.
A viral post on X recently boasted that Turks don’t know English because their country was never colonized. Homer Pavlos responded with two maps of Anatolia…
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The Two Greek Women Who Refused to Convert After Naousa Fell in 1822
When Ottoman forces captured Naousa in April 1822, two Greek Christian women were taken prisoner and subjected to a brutal attempt to break their faith. Their…
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The Last Hours Inside Hagia Sophia Before the Doors Were Smashed Down
On May 29, 1453, after a 53-day siege, the Ottoman army of Sultan Mehmed II broke through the walls of Constantinople. Emperor Constantine XI Palaiologos died…
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Israel Returns Stolen Greek Vases in Historic First
Greece received 21 ancient Greek vases from Israel on Tuesday in what marks the first repatriation of plundered antiquities between the two countries. The…
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The World’s Oldest Shipwreck Just Beat a Greek Record by 500 Years
A 4,700-year-old shipwreck discovered off the coast of Turkey near the island of Kekova has been confirmed as the oldest known wreck in the world, according to…
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Iran Fires Back at Rubio: “Distorting History” After Athens Speech
Iran’s Foreign Ministry hit back at U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Monday over a speech he gave in Athens last week, accusing him of distorting ancient…
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How the Ottoman Fleet Was Broken Off the Greek Coast in 1571
455 years ago, one of history’s most decisive naval battles unfolded just off the Greek coast, and it changed the course of the Mediterranean world.
