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31 May 2021 1 minute read 3 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Sorry it's been a while - I've had a lot of work commitments to make recently, and blogging has had to unfortunately come second to that. I have slowly been working on the next blog, and I'm nearly done. It's a shame this post in particular has had t...
14 May 2021 3 minute read 7 comments knowhow92
After a year lockdown in an already economicaly devastated country, Greek citizens are finally "free" of all this madness Image Source I can write thousands of words about how stupid our government faced this pandemic but I feel like it's the same t...
7 May 2021 2 minute read 1 comment knowhow92
I love travelling and I have plans of moving abroad in a few year so I often find myself browsing the cost of living in different countries and cities using Numbeo. I'm sure a lot of you are planning to spend your summer holidays in an exotic island...
6 Sep 2020 1 minute read 6 comments Steven_BA
I have been watching closely what is happening with Turkey and Greece in the last two weeks and the situation is not happy at all. The new tensions between the two countries have increased, even if in the last week the media, especially the European...
30 Aug 2020 1 minute read 8 comments Steven_BA
I will not go into too many details this time, but what is happening today between Turkey and Greece could be a challenge to the world order and regional stability. When I used the following title for my previous article War among NATO members?, I d...
26 Aug 2020 2 minute read 5 comments Steven_BA
It is well-known the conflicting relationship between Greece and Turkey. The tensions between these two countries have their roots in the past. More exactly, all started when Greece gained its independence from the former Ottoman Empire in 1830. Sinc...
1 Aug 2020 19 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The history of the world, from one perspective, is one of tyrants, monarchs, emperors and dictators vying for power and repressing the wills and freedoms of the many beneath them. Yet in one corner of the world, in the late sixth century BC, one smal...
26 Jul 2020 21 minute read 4 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The amount of tyrants that took control of a city in ancient Greece is near innumerable, so I've decided to limit this post to three cities I found to have the most interesting stories of being ruled by tyrants: the cities of Athens, Corinth and the...
25 Jul 2020 4 minute read 2 comments YouveBeenGreeked
The world’s oldest and most stable democracy emerged in Ancient Athens. The current Greek capital, Athens has remained prosperous and cultural for millennia. First settled in Neolithic times, some six thousand years ago, the city would go on to birth...
23 Jul 2020 13 minute read 0 comments YouveBeenGreeked
Once all of Solon's laws were implemented, there wasn’t a day that went by in which he didn’t receive an audience expressing their approval or disproval of a law. People were also known to approach Solon asking about the finite details of each law. W...
