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The King’s Daughter
Once upon a time there lived a king on his island, Sýrna, also referred to as Ágios Ioánnis on some nautical charts. His kingdom then extended over this long rock in the Aegean Sea, about 11 km², measuring 4 km long and 2.5 km wide, as well as the three nearby rocky islets.
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Shipwrecks
There are these events that make history, then dates that become events. Their scope, sometimes close to the frightening, it puts to the test our very capacity to store the memory of facts. However, man is formed by his memory, most frequently that of tragedies, like this dark day of December 8 for Greece and more especially for Crete.
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The Other Great War
In Greece and the Balkans, the memory of the Great War is first and foremost synonymous with its essentially Macedonian front, when it is not erased by the memory of later conflicts… or future ones, depending on your point of view.