THE MIRACLE:  A TRUE STORY Book authored by Leonidas Koumakis 3rd English Edition Literary Review by Eleni Sakellis Published in The National Herald, August 3, 2019 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ The Miracle: A True Story by Leonidas Koumakis is a compelling memoir and history of what the Greek minority in Turkey that has endured from the end of the 19th century to the present day. As noted in the book’s description, “The purpose of this book is to communicate, through both historical evidence and personal experiences, the Turkish policy against Hellenism and beyond.”  With an impressive bibliography of over 200 sources, the book was originally published in Greek in 1993 with its fourth edition printed in 2008. The first edition English translation by the...

The following book is available for FREE on Archives.org ----- THE MARTYRDOM OF SMYRNA AND EASTERN CHRISTENDOM;  A File of Overwhelming Evidence, Denouncing the Misdeeds of the Turks in Asia Minor and showing their Responsibility for the Horrors of Smyrna Compiled and Prefaced by Dr. Lysimachos Oeconomos First published in 1922 ----- From the PREFACE Towards the middle of September last, news of an unprecedented horror, wired from the Levant, set the horizons on fire all over the world.  Christian Smyrna was ablaze !  The city had been entered by the Turks on Saturday morning, September 9th, and, only a few days later, on Wednesday afternoon, September 13th, after she had been given up meanwhile to looting, violation and massacre, Giaour Izmir was carried over to the stake of an unprecedented Martyrdom !  She burnt entirely in her beauty and strength, and the scene of her flames springing forth into the skies effaced the classica...

POST-BYZANTINE GREEK MERCHANTS OF THE FIFTEENTH-SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES By Andronikos Falangas Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Year 2007 Pages 7-21 ----- You can read the entire article for FREE by CLICKING HERE   "The centuries that followed the spread of Ottoman domination throughout the Greek world, which culminated with the fall of Constantinople, are generally considered one of the darkest periods in the history of Hellenism. Nevertheless, many historical sources from the sixteenth-seventeenth centuries reveal the beginnings and growth of a merchant elite of Greek origin, their economic and cultural development, and the emergence of a Greek patriotism within this same group." ----- ANDRONIKOS FALANGAS received his PhD from Paris I, PantheonSorbonne. He is the author of forthcoming books on the humanist and prince of Moldavia, Jacob Vassilikos, and on Greek-Romanian relations of the fourteenth-sixteenth centuries. He most r...