Soumela Vestige of Hellenism
Abandoned and decaying, high in the Pontic Alps of Turkey, the monastery of the Virgin of the Black Rock remains a monument to a once vivid Hellenic dream.
Margot P. Demopoulos
The Anguished Souls of Spinalonga
The picturesque islet with the Venetian Castle just off the fashionable resort of Elounda was one of the last leper colonies in Europe
The Resolute Women of Cyprus
This month observes the sixteenth anniversary of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus. An eyewitness account of the Women Walk Home event of last year vividly illustrates the continued resolve of the Cypriot people to find a solution to their misfortune
The legendary defiance of Sfakia
Perpetrators of violent vendettas, rugged inhabitants of mountain fastnesses the scourge of more peaceable islanders in the lowlands, the intractable inhabitants of Sfakia have a fierce history of blood and iron. Over the centuries, the heroes’ names may have changed, but both the Venetians and Moslems met their match on the southwest coast of Crete.
