The Neolithic period in Greece began around 7000 BC with the birth of a farming culture. Over thousands of years and with the influence of Middle Eastern immigrants and traders, Greek culture grew from ...more
Unlike other lands, which were ruined by the decline of the Roman Empire, Greece emerged into a period of cultural rebirth and prosperity. Power stretched from the Balkans through Greece to Asia Minor ...more
As soon as the Turks moved in, they renamed Constantine’s capital Istanbul, reinstating the city as the seat of an empire. The Ottoman Empire prospered at first, though eventually its diverse regions ...more
On March 25, 1821, Bishop Germanos of Patras raised a Greek flag at the monastery of Agia Lavra , sparking an empire-wide rebellion. Middle-class rebels hoped the Orthodox Russian czar and Greek peasants ...more
The Prime Minister elected in 1910, Eleftherios Venizelos, who has been immortalized in street names throughout modern Greece, made extensive progress in stabilizing the country. In the aftermath of ...more
In the 2004 elections, power went back to New Democracy, elevating Kostas Karamanlis to Prime Minister and returning former Foreign Minister George Papandreou’s PASOK to the minority party. Karamanlis’s ...more
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