The ancient Greeks settled on the Aeolian Islands sometime in the Bronze Age where they traded with their neighbors ...

The village of Santa experienced one of the most harrowing episodes in the persecution of the Pontic Greeks during the genocide.

The ancient city of Troy was located along the northwest coast of Asia Minor, in what is now Turkey. It occupied a strategic position on the Dardanelles, a narrow water channel that connects the ...

This is surprising when taking into account the minor importance of the location within the Roman province. However, it remains an open question as to what it was that turned the situation around, ...

Those peoples who migrated eastward and either settled in Attica, or sailed across to the coasts of Asia Minor to found new colonies, became known as the Ionian Greeks. Although the Ionians ...

Many civilizations have inhabited this small Aegean island, near Asia Minor, since the 3rd millennium B.C. The remains of Pythagoreion, an ancient fortified port with Greek and Roman monuments and a ...

A school project led Celene Kumaru to discover her roots in Asia Minor and the escape of her great-grandfather's family from Smyrna in 1922. She tells his story through his memoirs. Celene ...