On June 21, Turkish media reported that the Saint-Jean Theologos Greek Girls School in Smyrna, now known as Izmir, which has been empty since the extermination of the city's Greek Christians in 1922, ...

Then followed the Greco-Turkish war, which began with Greek soldiers entering Smyrna in 1919 and ended with units of the Turkish army setting most of the city on fire in September 1922. In one of the ...

Many settled there, building Greek colonies, such as Trapezus (now Trabzon) and Smyrna (now Izmir). They were early adopters of Orthodox Christianity during the Byzantine period from 330 to 1453 ...

Manos Chatzikonstantis Caroline Doriti's new cookbook shares the story behind this Greek comfort food (Credit: Manos Chatzikonstantis) The first soutzoukakia originated in Smyrna, or what is now ...

But in her book "The Whispering Voices of Smyrna," Karavasilis decided to tackle a topic discussed in countless Greek homes but not often publicized: the Greek genocide at the hands of the Ottoman ...

They were another stone in the ethnic mosaic of cosmopolitan Smyrna, where Greeks, Armenians, Jews and Turks lived at that time. Spierer, whose family came from Geneva, maintained production ...

NEW SMYRNA BEACH — The smell of incense wafted over the crowd of people gathered in Riverside Park Saturday morning as a Greek Orthodox priest carefully rearranged religious items on a small ...