Phanariotes, was a small caste of Greek families, who took their collective name from the Phanar quarter of Constantinople, where the Ecumenical Patriarchate is located. They were educated, language learners, with great financial strength and occupied important positions in diplomacy and merchandise in the Ottoman Empire. Most acted as patrons of Greek culture and education.
Nikolaos Sklavos was a captain from Kefalonia, who found and pulled out of Bosporus the relic of Patriarch Gregory V and then, transferred it to Odessa where it was buried with honours.
Skepasto is a village in the province of Lagadas. Its old name was Souliovo. After the retreat of the Turks, refugees from Aghialos and Kars settled in the village.
Siatista is a town in Western Macedonia. It was economically prosperous in the 18th and 19th century and it played a major role during the Macedonian Struggle. It is famous for its mansions with the unique architectural style and the fur trade.
Servia is a town of Western Macedonia. Its name derives from the Latin verb servo which means to protect, to observe. The town was founded in the 7th century A.D. It is characterised as a Byzantine Castle City, due to its castle and its Acropolis.
On the 3rd of September 1843, a political-military movement was born aiming mainly at voting a Constitution, holding elections and convening a National Assembly. The outcome of the movement of September the 3rd was the voting of the Constitution in 1944 and the transition from absolute monarchy to constitutional monarchy.
Seleucus I Nicator (358 or 353-281 B.C.) was a comrade-in-arms and one of the successors of Alexander the Great. He was the founder of the Seleucid Dynasty and the founder of Antioch, which his son Antiochus I turned into the capital of the Seleucid Empire. He also founded several other Greek cities.
The Seleucid Empire was a dynasty of kings of Macedonian origin that ruled from 312 to 64 B.C. a Hellenistic state expanding from the western coasts of Minor Asia to India. The capital of their kingdom was Antioch in Syria.
Joachim Sgouros was born in Chios in 1864. He was a clergy of the Orthodox Church and he studied in the Theological School of Halki. He was the Metropolitan of Thessaloniki from 1910 to his death in 1912.
The great Roman Hippodrome in Thessaloniki. Inside this Hippodrome, the emperor Theodosius the Great ordered the massacre of more than 7,000 inhabitants of Thessaloniki, when some rebels assassinated the military commander of the city. Its length was over 400 meters. The ruins of the Hippodrome are fragmentarily preserved. A small part of the west side
