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5 days ago · The House of Oldenburg is an ancient dynasty of German origin whose members rule or have ruled in Denmark, Iceland, Greece, Norway, Russia, Sweden, the United Kingdom, Livonia, Schleswig, Holstein, and Oldenburg.
2 days ago · The royal houses of Europe believed that George I, then Prince William of Denmark, would be a suitable candidate for the Greek throne. Consequently, George traveled to Greece, a country that he had never visited before, that same year to start his reign.
5 days ago · Greece - Reform, Expansion, Defeat: The downfall of King Otto forced the great powers to search for a new sovereign who could not be drawn from their own dynasties. Their choice was a prince of the Danish Glücksburg family, who reigned as King George I of the Hellenes from 1863 to 1913; thereafter the Glücksburg dynasty reigned intermittently ...
4 days ago · To those who think that Greece does not matter today, let me say that they could not make a bigger mistake. Today, like old Greece, is of the utmost importance for anyone looking to find himself. Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American author
3 days ago · Pontic Greeks are an ethnic Greek subgroup, indigenous to the region of Pontus, in northeastern Anatolia. [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] Greeks have lived in Pontus since "the time of the Argonauts, Herodotus and Xenophon and the Ten Thousand ," according to the president of the Anatolia College in 1921. [27]
1 day ago · Greece, the southernmost of the countries of the Balkan Peninsula. It lies at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and Africa and is heir to the heritages of Classical Greece, the Byzantine Empire, and nearly four centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule.
4 days ago · The Greek king George I was assassinated there on a visit on March 18, 1913. From 1915 to 1918 Thessaloníki served as the base for Allied operations in the Turkish straits.
