Everyday we are becoming witnesses of more extreme examples of FYROM's Ultra-Nationalism. Unfortunately this aggressive form of ultra-nationalism is strongly influnced by Racist ideologies and these people simply cant hide it. A reader of our blog today, sent us an interesting mail and informed us about the following: "This is a brief article in the "Spic" daily, entitled "Crna Atina" ("Black Athena") written by Dorde ...

After the Byzantine reconquest of Thessalonike in 1246, the first outstanding intellec­tual in the city seems to have been a certain John Pothos Pediasimos, whose identity was recently reconsidered in a convincing manner from a puzzle of source material by Costas Constantinides. Pediasimos, born in Thessalonike in the 1340s, seems to have acquired only an ...