As the rumblings grow louder and closer to the surface, developments indicate that the government is not even willing to accept a diluted version of a name for Skopje like ‘New Macedonia’, a formula being backed by most Western powers.
There is a cormorant standing on my feet! Oh, yes, he is from the Wildlife Hospital down the road.
It is not just Constantinople; it is also Istanbul, a city of mixed, mainly Oriental, origin with a touch of Levantine flair.
Two musical traditions came together in the late 19th and early 20th century. One developed in the teke, the other in the cafe aman. A unique musical style was horn: the rebetiko
Five years ago, the house of the Philiki Etairia in the Black Sea port of Odessa, was being used as a rubbish dump; its historical importance forgotten until, by chance, a local Greek spotted an inbuilt inscription.
Away from the mainland compulsion to change and conform, some special customs have been preserved on Skyros. Goat dancing or Dionysiac cult?
The EC seems reluctant to enter into the dialectical arguments of Greece and the self-proclaimed republic of Macedonia. Matters appear to be sapping Slavic resistance.
The sudden appearance under the archaeologists’ spade of a golden hoard at Hissarlik in Turkey in 1871 astonished the world. Its equally sudden disappearance when the Red Army occupied Berlin in 1945 has mystified it ever since. Perhaps Boris Yeltsin holds the key to this intriguing cultural enigma.
The road which Roman governors, Turkish voivodes and Greek industrial magnates took to their villas in Kifissia and across which 17N terrorists not long ago lobbed a missile at the local EC headquarters, Queen Sofias Boulevard, remains the noblest thoroughfare of Athens.
Although he scrapped through with a 7-6 decision on the main charge, the amazingly plucky ex-premier is determined to make a hero of himself.
