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The popularity of Greek cuisine, particularly vegan cuisine, has to do with its history, geography and climate allowing the ability to cultivate different types of fruits, …

Marc Held entered history in 1965 with his famous Culbuto armchair, followed in 1966 by his furniture manufactured by Prisunic. Over a period of fifty years, he created some 150 …

This book examines the international dimensions of the Greek military dictatorship of 1967 to 1974 and uses it as a case study to evaluate the major shifts occurring in the …

The history of Salonica and particularly the life of the Jewish Community are captured in picture postcards of the period 1897-1917. The illustrative material and accompanying …

The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries …

Griechische Sagen – Die schönsten Sagen des klassischen Altertums. – Herausgegeben von Gustav Schwab | Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu editiert und lektoriert. Voll verlinkt, mit …

As was the case in many other countries, it was only in the early years of this century that Greek and Turkish labour historians began to systematically look beyond national …

In the decades between the two World Wars, Greek writers and artists adopted surrealism both as an avant-garde means of overturning the stifling traditions of their classical …

A memoir of friendship, history, and longing in a Greek village that "e;introduces us to a rich cast of writers and ex-pats, shepherds and urbanites"e; (A.E. Stallings, …

At the turn of the twentieth century Salonica (now Thessaloniki in Greece) was an oasis in a swirl of conflicting powers and interests, a vibrant world of varied peoples at the …