In the photo, above, these villagers from Asia Minor were driven into the mountains near…
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On This Day September 20, 1922: American Executes Amazing Plan, Saves Thousands of Greeks
On September 20, 1922, a single American named Asa Jennings set in motion a series…
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This summer 16 young North American volunteers had a transformative experience immersed in volunteerism, philanthropy…
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Throughout the history of modern Greece, her people have been subject to expulsion from millennia-old…
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On This Day June 12, 1914: Ancient Greek Community of Phocaea in Asia Minor is Massacred
A precursor to the fateful events that would happen less than a decade later in…
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The annihilation of the non-Turk/non-Muslim peoples from Anatolia started on April 24, 1915 with the…
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Featured image courtesy of Kostas Mountzoureas Dozens of local and international musicians will gather in…
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Depending upon where in Greece you might come from, you may have different Vasilopita baking…
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Following the 1922 evacuation of Smyrna when hundreds of thousands of Greeks fled for their…
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On This Day September 18, 1922: Ataturk Condemns Refugees’ Fate, US Ignores Warnings
On September 18, 1922, a British diplomat handed Allen Dulles, chief of the Near East…