TIL Michel Dragon was a Greek merchant and lieutenant who served in the Spanish Army during the American Revolution, fighting with the Patriots for the independence of the United States of America. He was one of the first Greek Americans and one of few to fight in the American Revolutionary War.

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u/No_Idea_479 — 1 day ago

Πώς ο Ελληνικός Στρατός έφτασε 60 χιλιόμετρα έξω από την Άγκυρα (22 Αυγούστου/ 4 Σεπτεμβρίου 1921)

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u/No_Idea_479 — 1 day ago
▲ 85 r/armenia

During the August–September 1923 Corfu incident, Mussolini attacked the island of Corfu in Greece, killing Armenian orphans, survivors of the Armenian genocide, in the process

Possibly survivors of the Burning of Smyrna by the Turks

u/No_Idea_479 — 1 day ago

Armenian orphans whose parents were killed in the Armenian genocide are photographed in the process of Turkification, holding Ottoman Turkish flags and a portrait of Enver Pasha

u/No_Idea_479 — 2 days ago

TIL America's most famous 19th-century sculpture was called "The Greek Slave". Depicting a Greek Christian woman enslaved by the Ottomans, it became an important source of inspiration for U.S. abolitionists in the fight against slavery.

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u/No_Idea_479 — 4 days ago
▲ 78 r/AskGreece+1 crossposts

In 2009, the "Aromanian community of Greece" (Greeks of Vlach origin) wrote to the European Council, publicly asking them to stop "categorizing" Vlachs as a "minority" of Greece. months later, EC complied, and since then it has fully aligned with domestic Greek policy. what do you think?

u/No_Idea_479 — 4 days ago