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Phoenicians: The First Rulers of the Mediterranean

Greek Reporter 15 Apr 2025
The ancient Greeks named the Phoenicians the “purple people” because of the rare purple dye they made out of snail shells, but they were much more than that ... It was the Greeks who named the ...
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Ancient lecture hall discovered at Agrigento

Heritage Daily 12 Apr 2025
The city was founded around 580 BC by Greek settlers from Gela and Rhodes, which quickly rose to prominence as the largest Greek colony on the island. Like many Greek cities, Agrigento had a gymnasium ...
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DNA Study Shows When Ancient Greeks Colonized Italy

Greek Reporter 12 Apr 2025
A recent DNA study by an international team of scientists showed when Ancient Greeks colonized Magna Graecia in Italy ... Ancient Greek colonies in southern Italy ... Comparing DNA of people in Italy with samples retrieved from Greeks.
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2,000-Year-Old Greek Lecture Hall Unearthed in Italy

Greek City Times 11 Apr 2025
Archaeologists have uncovered a remarkable ancient Greek lecture hall within a gymnasium complex at Agrigento, Sicily, a major colony of ancient Greece founded around 580 B.C ... a hub of Greek culture.
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The Legacy of Empires: How Cyprus Became a Geopolitical Prize

Greek Reporter 10 Apr 2025
The Minoans from Crete are believed to have established early trade links, followed by Mycenaean Greeks who settled on the island around 1400 BCE ... Teucer and Ajax defend the Greek ships against a Trojan attack.
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The Unorthodox Tactics and Weapons of Ancient Warfare

Greek Reporter 09 Apr 2025
The Persian generals thought that one way to defeat the Greeks was to disable their horses ... His greatest invention is the one that rescued Syracuse, the ancient Greek colony in Sicily, from the Roman siege.
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An Aromatic Odyssey Into the Mythical Power of Perfumes in Ancient Greece

Greek Reporter 08 Apr 2025
Perfumes were also included in Greek mythology ... There is evidence that perfume-making in ancient Greece began in Crete and other Greek colonies, where they mastered the art and began exporting their perfumes to Europe.
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Greek Schools to Celebrate EOKA Day for the First Time

Greek City Times 02 Apr 2025
For the first time, Greek schools will celebrate EOKA Day on April 1, honoring the 1955-1959 Cypriot uprising against British colonial rule and the push for unification with Greece ... Greek Education ...
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Viability of a Cyprus settlement depends on the respect of historical identity, President says

CNA 02 Apr 2025
... struggle of EOKA, the Greek Cypriot anti-colonial movement in the 1950s seeking union with Greece.
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Are Istanbul’s Byzantine Monuments Being Erased from Sight?

Greek Reporter 02 Apr 2025
Before it became the capital of the Christian, Greek-speaking Byzantine Empire in the fourth century AD, the Greek colony known as Byzantium was a small but well-situated trading port on the shores of the Bosporus.
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Parties commemorate 70th anniversary of Eoka launch

CyprusMail 01 Apr 2025
Akel said it “honours the heroism and the fight of the children of Cyprus who fought against the British colonial yoke and gave their lives on the battlefield for the freedom and self-determination of our homeland”.
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Greek schools to celebrate Eoka Day for first time

CyprusMail 31 Mar 2025
Greek schools will be celebrate Eoka Day on April 1 for the first time, commemorating the 1955-1959 uprising of Cypriots against British colonial rule and the bid to unify with Greece, after a ...
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Demetrios: The Ancient Greek Who Traveled to England

Greek Reporter 30 Mar 2025
As a Greek, ... Pytheas of Massalia, a geographer from the Greek colony of Massalia, the modern-day city of Marseille in southern France, was the first Greek to have been known to visit Great Britain.
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