The judges of the prestigious Runciman Award for books about Greece have unveiled their long list of 21 titles for the 2021 installment of the event, which will be part of the UK’s celebration of the bicentenary of the Greek War of Independence.
1821 ANNIVERSARY
The US embassy in Greece is launching a yearlong campaign to commemorate Greece’s 1821 War of Independence, US Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt announced in an interview with state broadcaster ERT on Thursday.
The Greek Revolution of the 1820s was the first liberal-national movement to succeed in the Old World of Europe. The ideological groundwork had been laid, mostly by thinkers writing in French and German, during the century before.
The song “May the dances never stop” (As kratisoun oi horoi) by singer-songwriter Dionysis Savvopoulos was chosen by the “Greece 2021” committee as the soundtrack for the official video clip on the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek War of Independence in 1821, which was released Wednesday.
Archbishop Ieronymos announced Thursday that the Church of Greece will organize 261 events next year across Greece to mark the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution.
How we see major historical events usually says more about us than about the events themselves. It indicates the level of our education, the extent to which we seek the truth, as well as how our current needs shape opinions, myths and prejudices. In this context, the opinion poll “How the Greeks See the Revolution of 1821” shows our overwhelming admiration for warriors at the expense of visionaries, politicians and financial contributors to the struggle.
American Ambassador to Greece Geoffrey Pyatt has unveiled the #USGreece2021 logo that the US government will use for all its programming in commemoration of the 200th anniversary of Greece’s independence.
Four Mirage-2000 fighter jets and six helicopters of the Hellenic Armed Forces flew over Athens on Wednesday as Greece marked the anniversary of its war of independence against Ottoman rule. The annual parades were cancelled due to the coronavirus outbreak. President Katerina Sakellaropoulou, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and other party leaders laid wreaths at the Monument to the Unknown Soldier on central Syntagma square.
In a message on the anniversary of the 1821 uprising against Ottoman rule, leftist opposition leader Alexis Tsipras issued a call for unity in the face of Turkish provocations against Greece’s territorial integrity.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Wednesday marked the anniversary of the country’s war of independence against Ottoman rule sending a message of unity and resilience in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
President Donald Trump has highlighted strengthened defense and security cooperation between the United States and Greece saying that close partnership between the two NATO allies promotes Washington’s interest in maintaining peace and stability in the Eastern Mediterranean, the Black Sea and the Western Balkans.
Antiquities and art from the 18th and 19th centuries trace ideological, philosophical roots of Greek War of Independence at NAM.
Acclaimed American actor and filmmaker Tom Hanks and his wife, actress and producer Rita Wilson, called on posted a short clip on the website urging people to participate in Greece’s bicentennial celebrations of the anniversary of Greece’s War of Independence against Ottoman rule.
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Friday approved the expansion of the Greece 2021 committee, which is responsible for designing and supervising a program of celebrations to mark the bicentennial anniversary of Greece’s War of Independence against Ottoman rule.
The head of the "Greece 2021" committee on the bicentennial of the declaration of the Greek War of Independence (1821), Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, presented on Friday the logo of the committee.
An exhibition titled “This Is What We Fought For: Antiquities and the Greek Revolution” will open at Athens’ National Archaeological Museum on February 11, as part of the 1821 bicentennial initiative. The event juxtaposes 26 antiquities from NAM’s collections with 26 artworks from the 18th and 19th centuries, mostly by European artists. The show is complemented by digital projections showing landscapes of Greece before the revolution. “The exhibition is particularly interesting because it bridges two anniversaries: the 2,500th anniversary of the battles of Salamis and Thermopylae and that of the Greek Revolution,” Culture Minister Lina Mendoni said. [Alexandros Vlahos/ANA-MPA]
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