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Georgios I. Guekos: 1822/1823 HOMECOMING – A. YPSILANTIS’ FIGHTERS ON THEIR WAY BACK TO GREECE – Presentation of a book

An original research on the fate of the fighters of Alexander Ypsilantis that survived the lethal battles of the uprising in Moldavia and Wallachia in 1821.Many of them found refuge in Odessa and from there they started their dramatic journey…

Conférence de Gilles Pécout: Le moment philhellène des intellectuels et écrivains français. La Sorbonne et la guerre de 1897.

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19.11.2019, 18h00, Auditorium Theo Angelopoulos, Institut Français d'Athènes Au principe du « moment philhellène de fin de siècle » en France se trouve le constat que le philhellénisme est un mouvement transnational qui dépasse…

Lecture by Emeritus Professor Christos Bartsokas on: The American doctor Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876), Hero of the Greek Revolution, Philanthropist-benefactor in Greece and the USA

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The lecture will take place on Tuesday, 8 October 2019 at 19:30 in the Stoa Vivliou Gallery (Pesmazoglou 5) The event is being organized by the College of Emeritus Professors of the University of Athens The President Dionysios Kokkinos The…

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Georgios I. Guekos: 1822/1823 HOMECOMING – A. YPSILANTIS’ FIGHTERS ON THEIR WAY BACK TO GREECE – Presentation of a book

Conférence de Gilles Pécout: Le moment philhellène des intellectuels et écrivains français. La Sorbonne et la guerre de 1897.

Lecture by Emeritus Professor Christos Bartsokas on: The American doctor Samuel Gridley Howe (1801-1876), Hero of the Greek Revolution, Philanthropist-benefactor in Greece and the USA

L’influence du Philhellénisme sur la musique. Interlocution de Dr Fotis Papathanasiou

Philhellenism in France and its influence on music and the arts during the War of Independence of 1821

Memorial of the American Philhellene Dr. Samuel Gridley Howe in Aegina