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Goodbye Tourism
In August 1929, Édouard Herriot, former French Prime Minister, then mayor of Lyon and head of the Parti radical, arrived by route in Greece for a pleasure trip on board his luxurious Hispano-Suiza course car.
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Greeks of Asia Minor and Greeks of Hellas
Otherness and identities during the Greco-Turkish War in Asia Minor (1919-1922) In May 1919, the first Greek soldiers landed in Smyrna. This new episode of Greco-Turkish warfare on the soil of Asia Minor, lasting three years and four months, was part of the political and military continuity of the Balkan Wars (1912-1913) and the Great War (1914-1918). It ended with the rout of Greek troops in August-September 1922 and an exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey.
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Zagori, a captivating region!
Stereotypes sometimes have long lives and short memories. Especially those related to tourism, even when it’s popular. Thus, when we talk about the villages of Zagori in Epirus, we often refer to this region of immense beauty, presumably off the beaten track and even unknown to most tourists.
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Ghost Greece
There are certain places we know only half as well, if not only through their ghosts of the past. Thus, in keeping with the title I chose for my 2013 book on the Greek crisis: “Ghost Greece,” one of the characteristics of my excursions exploring this beautiful country is that it remains decidedly… somewhat ghostly, in these times.
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Frappé coffee
Visitors to Greece of a certain generation, once they arrive at Athens airport, or otherwise on board the first ferry to the islands, order their first frappé coffee. And the adventure begins!
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Our pediatrician photographer
The past, of which we are otherwise the living bearers, is formed of places and nodes, consubstantial with our memory. For the historian Pierre Nora, born in 1931, these places of memory are very precisely inscribed in “his new history”, a statement which certainly forms in itself a specialist concept, which must nevertheless be admitted to be very accurate.