History
Historical facts and gestures from Antiquity to the present day. The protagonists and the peoples.
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My book newly published
At the end of the year 2024, I have just published in Greek and with Stamoulis publishing in Thessaloniki, my essay on contemporary history: “The daily life of Greek soldiers during the First World War and the Greco-Turkish War in Asia Minor (1917-1922)”, a work in the series “Texts and Studies” under the aegis of the Philological Historical Folkloric Association FILOS of Trikala – Φιλολογικός Ιστορικός Λογοτεχνικός Σύνδεσμος Τρικάλων.
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Deep Thessaly
In Greece, in the heights of recent years, goats have become increasingly rare, as have cattle. This is the almost new situation in Western Thessaly, on the Pindus massif as well as on the plains. And as for men… Greek land!
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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.
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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.