Foundation of Filiki Eteria (Society of Friends)

Three Greeks of the diaspora that came together in Odessa, Nikolaos Skoufas (from the Arta province, 1779 – 1818), Emmanouil Xanthos (from Patmos, 1772 – 1851) and Athanasios Tsakalof (from Ioannina 1790 – 1851), made their decisions in Summer 1814 and on 14 September, on the day that Orthodoxy celebrates the Exaltation of the Holy […]

The London Protocol

The London Protocol was an important international treaty that was concluded on 3 February 1830 between the three Great Powers of that time: Great Britain, France and Russia. This treaty involved the establishment and the international recognition of the new independent Greek state. Moreover, the borders of the newly established Greek state had been defined, […]