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Name day calendar today (21/5) – Constantine and Helen: A major feast in Orthodoxy, who celebrates

Every year on May 21, the Orthodox Church commemorates the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great and his mother Saint Helena for their major contributions to Christianity

A headless marble statue of the goddess Athena was discovered in Turkey (video-photos)

The statue of Athena was found among piles of rubble, facing downward, at the outer wall of the stage building of the Western Theater in the ancient city of Laodicea (modern-day Denizli)

Eleni Glykatzi-Arveler: How she changed the historical image of Byzantium

Through an interdisciplinary methodology, the historian reshaped the international image of Byzantium, distancing it from earlier Western-centric interpretations

Were Greece’s claims in Asia Minor justified – The demographic reality behind the “Great Idea”

In the aftermath of World War I, Greece pursued the dream of reclaiming historic Hellenic lands in Asia Minor — a vision rooted in centuries of Greek presence along the coast of Anatolia. Yet a century later, historians continue to debate whether these territorial ambitions were truly justified. Was the Greek campaign of 1919–1922 an act of imperial overreach, or a desperate attempt to protect threatened Greek populations

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