George Maniakes was a tremendously talented general with a famously bad temper who challenged the Byzantine emperor for the ...

Hidden in the footnotes of history books, these lesser-known leaders of Greek origin held great power over numerous countries ...

When Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church (9400 W. Congress St., Wauwatosa) was completed in 1961, the design challenged ...

Kings and Generals Was the Byzantine Empire the Heir to the Ancient Greeks Posted: March 24, 2025 | Last updated: March 24, 2025 Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the ...

AMORGOS, Greece (AP) — For more than 50 years, Spyridon Denaxas has prayed, worked and welcomed the faithful in an island ...

An excavation report from the Israel Antiquities Authority reveals the discovery of a well-preserved Byzantine-period monastery ... a three-line Greek inscription, mentioning the monastery ...

The ruins of another former capital, Byzantine Paleochora, can be found to the east above Agios Nektarios, one of the biggest churches in Greece, built for the most recent Greek Orthodox saint ...

The Byzantine Museum in Nicosia ... Cyprus gained independence from British rule in 1960, but Greek-Turkish Cypriot tensions led to violence, with Turkey intervening in 1974 after a Greek-backed ...

a former Byzantine-era fortress later known as Yedi Kule under Ottoman rule, city officials said in a statement. The Greek civil war lasted from 1946 to 1949 but executions of political prisoners ...

with commercial transactions written in Greek and Demotic scripts. Preliminary studies suggest the pottery workshop was in use during the Byzantine era but was repurposed during the seventh ...