History
Historical facts and gestures from Antiquity to the present day. The protagonists and the peoples.
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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.
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Due south
Southern Greece, and first of all the Peloponnese, undoubtedly correspond to the fashionable stereotypes about travel in Greece. And yet…
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Due north
Traveling is to be amazed, to grasp what is still possible to learn in order to reflect on it, and then to be amazed! Leaving Athens quickly, we therefore left for the north of the country and its region, as much cultural as natural, of Greek Macedonia.
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Ottoman census
As good historians, we do not at all wipe the slate clean of the past. In Greece, more particularly in Thessaly for our “local” case, we hardly forget, for example, the very long and trying period of Ottoman occupation, generally between 1420 and 1881, the year in which Thessaly was attached to the contemporary Hellenic State. Just as we do not omit in this regard to mention, or even to directly question, if possible, the direct Ottoman sources.
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Arcadia
The Peloponnese, certainly much visited, is otherwise still part of the legend that is its own. Greece Otherwise privileges in some way its inland lands, its mountains and its rivers, first and foremost in high season. This is how we revisited Stemnítsa and its surroundings, in the heart of Gortynia and the regional district of Arcadia, a micro-region that takes its name from the ancient city of Gortyn.
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Sites of memory
In the eyes of historians, “sites of memory” are everywhere, proof, if any were needed, that the memory of places is often more solid than the places themselves. This is what we verified during our trip to Central Thessaly, a region completely ignored by tourists, and sometimes even… forgotten by its own people.