Ioannis Metaxas
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The forgotten, invisible safe spaces under Athens
A network of thousands of underground spaces are scattered beneath Athens. Pedestrians hurry past them, not suspecting that the metal lid of a manhole they have just stepped on is one of the gates to a vast web of spaces, which for decades has been sealed in silence and oblivion.
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Writer explores Athens’ pre-war bomb shelters
General Ioannis Metaxas' regime (1936-41) built some 400 bomb shelters in Athens, while it imposed by law the creation of a shelter in every new building, raising the number to 5,500 from 1936 to 1940, author and researcher Konstantinos Kyrimis, who has been recording them for over a decade, tells Kathimerini, citing an official Hellenic Army report.
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Greece’s return to parliamentary democracy wasn’t accompanied by checks, balances
In April of 1947, in the midst of the civil war, the leader of the Nationalist Party (renamed People's Party in 1920), Theodoros Tourkovasilis, while speaking to the Greek Parliament, mentioned Switzerland in passing: "I was recently given the chance to admire this people and to see the fine organization of this state up close. Switzerland is indeed a masterpiece of a state.
October 28: This is how the Greco-Italian war began in 1940
Shortly after 03:00 in the morning of October 28, 1940, the fascist Italian government of Mussolini sent an ultimatum to Greece, through the Italian ambassador in Athens, Emanuele Grazzi, who personally delivered it to Ioannis Metaxas at his home in Kifissia, demanding the free passage of the Italian army from the Greek-Albanian border in order to then occupy some strategic points of the Kingdo
The Greek people mark 28 October anniversary of great ‘OXI’, refusal to surrender to Mussolini
By George Gilson
"Until now we used to say that the Greeks fight like heroes. Now we shall say: Heroes fight like Greeks," Winston Churchill famously said, regarding tiny Greece's heroic battle against the forces of fascist leader Benito Mussolini and its refusal to surrender on 28 October, 1940.
New law in pipeline on religious worship venues
Within the context of the government's aim to defend and uphold the religious rights of all citizens living in Greece, Education Minister Niki Kerameus has told Kathimerini that a law is being drafted regarding the process of establishing and operating places of worship.
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Resolution introduced in US Congress to recognize Greek ‘Ochi’ Day
Greek-American congressmen and Hellenic Caucus members Chris Pappas, John Sarbanes and Gus Bilirakis (FL-12), introduced a resolution earlier this week calling for October 28 to be recognized as "Ochi" Day in the United States, in commemoration of Greece's entry into World War II in 1940 after refusing to surrender to the Axis forces.
Former Golden Dawn MP denies being a neo-Nazi
The first of some 18 former lawmakers belonging to the extreme-right Golden Dawn party to take the stand in the final phase of a trial which began in 2015 claimed on Wednesday that he is not a neo-Nazi but a Greek nationalist who despises Germans.
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Italy to formally apologize to Greece for declaring war in 1940
Italian President Sergio Mattarella will reportedly formally apologize on behalf of his country for the unprovoked declaration of war to Greece, on 28 October 1940, during his one-day visit to the country on Sunday.