Modern Greek History

2 weeks ago | greekcitytimes.com | Paul Antonopoulos |Modern Greek History

During the genocide, up to one million Greeks were exterminated by Ottoman and Kemalist forces, 353,000 of them in Pontus alone. However, the story of the Pontian Greeks is not only about their uprooting from their homeland of nearly 3,000 years but also their brave resistance and guerrilla warfare. The Greeks of Pontus, who managed to escape from the labor battalions or direct extermination, began to organize resistance against the genocidal Turks as early as 1915.

4 weeks ago | greekcitytimes.com | George Vardas |Modern Greek History

The return to Greece of the controversial Elgin collection of Parthenon Sculptures, currently held in the British Museum, has in recent years been the subject of countless media reports and seemingly endless conjecture as to the prospects of resolving what is arguably the world’s most famous cultural heritage dispute.