A dispute between two captains from Greece and Turkey escalated into a major international incident, the Imia Crisis, that ...
The crisis over Ιmia, a pair of small uninhabited islets in the Aegean Sea, in January 1996 led Greece and Turkey to the brink of war.
One of the 19th century’s most pivotal events, the Greek Revolution (or War of Independence), remains ... border into Ottoman lands to raise the flag of revolution in early 1821.