The Hellenic (Greek) language is among the richest in the world, with over 5 million words. Many English words come from Hellenic roots, especially in…
“Malaka” means “jerk“, “asshole”, “motherfucker”, “wanker“, “idiot”, or “stupid”—yet when spoken to a friend, the entire meaning flips into a warm…
More old photos from Greece of 1903-1930, photos by Fred Boissonnas that show a quiet and different world
The Philhellene Swiss photographer Fred Boissonnas(1858-1946) was the first foreign photographer who traveled so much in the Greek land from 1903 and for nearly three decades following
Here are some elder Greek pictures from 1900 to 1930, photos from the period before the first world war
