PAPADOPOULOS BISCUITS: Centenary Celebrations
I feel pride when I see the company I created moving forward and remaining faithful in the principles I have always tried to serve: ethics combined with legitimate ambitions" - Evangelos Papadopoulos, 1972. A hundred years have…
The Heritage of Angelos Sikelianos
The interesting life of Greek poet Angelos Sikelianos and his wife Eva Palmer and the revival of the Delphic Festival.
Lord Byron’s Last Poem
Lord Byron wrote his last poem a few month before his 36th birthday and his death at Messolonghi, Greece. Greece has honoured him by celebrating 'Byron Day' on 19 April.
LORD BYRON: The Philhellene Poet
Lord Byron is one of the best-known philhellenes during the Greek War of Independence against Ottoman rule.
BICENTENARY CELEBRATIONS IN GREECE
Women in the Bicentenary Celebrations in Greece.
IOANNIS KAPODISTRIAS – A Symbolic Figure
Much can be said about the life and career of Ioannis Kapodistrias (Greek: Ιωάννης Καποδιστριας). He was the Foreign Affairs Minister for Alexander I of Russia during the most important part of European history as it was…
Emperor Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos: The Marble King
The Byzantine Empire had 94 Emperors over a span of 1123 years from 330 to 1453 AD when Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Sultan Mehmed II. The last emperor was fated to be Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos…
Princess Alice of Battenberg
We are often intrigued by the lives of royalty. We remember many of them for the tumultuous lives they lead or for the heritage that they leave behind. One such royal was Princess Alice of Battenberg, born…
HONOURING IOANNIS GIANNOPOULOS
A special function was organised at the Apostolopoulou Cultural Centre of the Municipality of Tripoli Arcadia to honour a prominent Greek of the Diaspora, Ioannis Giannopoulos, who was born in Arcadia, Morea. He is honoured because he…