In a somber ceremony on Monday, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki honored the memory of two students who were killed in February’s rail disaster at Tempe in Central Greece by delivering their degrees to their families.
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In celebration of St Nicholas, the patron saint of sailors, and the 1912-1913 battles of Elli and Limnos, the Greek navy is opening three of its warships to the public for organized visits, starting Monday.
One hundred and sixty years after the birth of Constantine Cavafy, the influential Greek poet, journalist, and civil servant from Alexandria, the Onassis Foundation is adding a landmark to downtown Athens and a milestone in Cavafy research by setting up the Cavafy Archive on Frynichou Street in Plaka, which opens to the public on Wednesday.
More than 25,000 people marched through central Athens on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship.
Thousands of people – up to 25,000, according to some accounts – marched through central Athens on Friday to mark the 50th anniversary of a pro-democracy student uprising that was violently put down by the military dictatorship in 1973.
Stefanos Kasselakis, the leader of Greece’s main leftist opposition, on Friday laid a wreath at the memorial on the grounds of the former Military Police Special Interrogation Unit (EAT/ESA) to commemorate the 1973 Athens Polytechnic uprising.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis marked the 50th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic uprising on Friday, describing the events as “a beacon illuminating the path towards a more open and democratic society.”
Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou commemorated the 50th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic student uprising on November 17, 1973, by laying a wreath at a memorial dedicated to the victims of the regime’s brutal suppression of the revolt.
Members of the public and student groups gather at the building of the Athens Polytechnic University in central Athens on Thursday, during the three-day commemoration of the 1973 student uprising, which marks its 50-year anniversary this year.
Gradual road closures will come into effect ahead of the 50th anniversary of the Athens Polytechnic student uprising, to be commemorated with a big rally in the city center on Friday.
On the 40th anniversary of the unilateral Turkish Cypriot declaration of independence in the occupied northern part of Cyprus in November 1983, Greece has called on Turkey to adhere to UN resolutions on the ethnically-split Mediterranean island.
Until early 2023, it seemed that Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey was set to celebrate the 100 years since its founding on October 29 with an emphasis on how the founders “threw the Greeks into the sea.”
Students from twenty primary and secondary schools of Thessaloniki marched on Saturday morning on Tsimiski Street as part of the celebrations to mark the anniversaries of the city’s liberation from Ottoman rule on October 27th, 1912, during the First Balkan War, and the Ochi Day on October 28.
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is marking 100 years from the signing of the population swap agreement between Greece and Turkey at Lausanne with an exhibition shining a spotlight on American relief efforts in this part of the world from 1918-1929.
In early September, 101 years ago, as the Turkish cavalry entered Smyrna, a Greek city on the Aegean coast of Anatolia, some 1,200 women and children sought refuge within the courtyard of the American Collegiate Institute for Girls, also known as the American Girls’ School.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has attended religious services for the day of the Dormition of the Virgin Mary on the island of Tinos.
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