The revolution of Naoussa started on the Sunday of Orthodoy of 1822. The Naousseans heroically resisted the troops of Lubut Pasha but the Turkish army managed to enter the town slaughtering its defenders and taking [...]

  “The war does not weigh on them, but has become part of their breath”. This is how Dionysios Solomos eulogized the Free Besieged of Missolonghi, who preferred the heroic exodus over surrender to the [...]

500 Greeks under Panourghias and Athanassios Diakos conflict with Turkish troops on the bridge of Spercheios river (Alamana) near Lamia. Athanassios Diakos (i.e. deacon, in Greek) was arrested and, following a decision by Omer Vryonis, [...]

Karaiskakis, General-in-Chief of Roumeli, had set up camp in Piraeus since February of 1827 to reinforce the besieged Greeks defending the Acropolis of Athens. Between Piraeus and the Acropolis there were the troops of Reşid [...]

On Easter Day, April 10, 1821, the Sultan sentenced the elderly Patriarch Gregorios V from Dimitsana to death by hanging. He was held liable for the Greek Revolution. On April 18 [or 22], 1821, his [...]

As early as 1820 the 25th of March, day of the Feast of the Annunciation of the Mother of God, had been set by the Society of Friends (“Filiki Etairia” in Greek) as the day [...]

    The bicentenary of the revolt of Alexandros Ypsilantis is an opportunity to recall one of the pioneers of the National Uprising and leader of the Society of Friends (“Filiki Etairia” in Greek). On [...]

From January 26 to 29, 1821 (or to January 30, according to other sources), a secret meeting of the bishops and headmen of the Peloponnese who had been initiated into the “Society of Friends” was [...]

1822. The assault was planned to have taken place at dawn on Christmas day in the hope that, unaware of the Turkish plan, all Greeks would have gone to church and would have left the [...]

On October 8, 1820. From the city of Izmail of Bessarabia (Ukraine), in his capacity as leader of the “Society of Friends”, Alexandros Ypsilantis sent a letter to the bishops and headmen of the islands [...]