Asia Minor

Our story begins in the early 17th century, during a period of widespread conversion to Islam across the Greek world. On the island of Evia, Muslim missionaries convert large numbers of people, while Christians live under severe oppression and in economic hardship. By the outbreak of the Greek War...

“Sound Portraits” presents the first of three episodes devoted to rembetiko. Titled “Rembetiko: From the musical roots of Asia Minor to Piraeus,” the episode traces rembetiko’s origins in Greece and in the major multicultural cities of Asia Minor. It focuses particularly on Smyrna and Constantinople, where dif...

“Sound Portraits,” presented by Stavroula Karali, takes listeners on a journey through the unforgotten homelands. Beginning in Smyrna, we follow the musical paths of the Greeks of Asia Minor through Ayvalik, Vourla, Constantinople and Pontus, before continuing to the rock-carved towns of Cappadocia. Songs of ...

Georgios Dilvois, a refugee from Alatsata in Asia Minor, becomes the first Greek to die in battle, in World War I, serving in the American army! He had earlier won the medal of valor, fighting Pancho Villa's men in Mexico. A tribute by Nikolas Angelidis and the show "Time in Greece" to the Greek immigrant...

Four selected traditional Greek tales from the collection "Traditional Tales of Hellenism" which are an important part of our cultural heritage, are presented by the show "Narratives - Fairy tales for Children and Grown Ups", on Saturday 06.07.2024 at 17 :00 to 18:00 Athens time from the frequency of...