The Realm of History website posted the following article on November 14, 2018 Archaeologists Have Possibly Found A Previously Unknown Ancient Greek Settlement In Crimea Posted by Dattatreya Mandal " Recent excavation-related exploits of the  Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Archaeology have revealed  some fascinating finds, like an  ancient Greek fortress in Crimea  and the first known  Corinthian helmet north of Black Sea . This time around, the researchers have once again made the news, by potentially unearthing a previously unknown ancient Greek settlement in the eastern part of the Crimean peninsula. The discovery was revealed by  Sergey Yefimov (to TASS), who is the  Chairman of the State Committee for the Protection of Cultural Heritage of the Republic of Crimea. Now it should be noted that the excavation project is still in its nascent stage, with preliminary findings pointing to how the settlement was possibly communal in ...

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...