Publications

The publication entitled “Hellenic Navy: History and Art”, the result of a collaboration between the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation and the Hellenic Navy General Staff, aims to highlight the Naval Epic through more than 170 works of art belonging to the collections of the Hellenic Navy.

Works by important artists, such as Konstantinos Volanakis and Emilios Prosalentis, but also by younger ones, such as Panagiotis Tetsis, are largely unknown, while most of them are presented for the first time to the general public. Specifically, the paintings depict important maritime events, the ships of the Greeks and the protagonists of the Naval Epic from antiquity to the present day. The publication also includes the sculptures concerning the glorious forms of the  our naval history and the hagiography of the Holy Church of Agios Demetrios in the Naval Fort Skaramangas, a unique monument of our modern civilization.

The Asia Minor Chronicles is the first systematic attempt to record, document and analyze issues related to Asia Minor. Annually published since 1938, the Asia Minor Chronicles consist rare archival material and a treasure of knowledge. The edition draws material from the first 2, out-of-print volumes of the Asia Minor Chronicles. Specifically, the articles of Sylvius "Charms and Spells" and "Folklore of Smyrna" are presented.

Both texts deal with the customs and folk medicine of Asia Minor. The aim, of course, is not to replace classical medicine with home remedies, but rather to emphasize the inseparable relationship between modern Greece and the Asia Minor tradition. The reader will realize that many customs and manners are very familiar to him.

The edition is accompanied by an extensive introduction by the historian and collaborator of the Union of Smyrna, Vgena Vartholomeou, and is also adorned with photographs by the famous Swiss photographer Fred Boissonnas, which were kindly provided by the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (MOMus).

he aim of this colouring book is to introduce children, as well as art-loving adults, to original images from the Eastern European travellers’ accounts who visited Asia Minor, which is digitised and presented in our website “Travelogues“.

Presenting images from Asia Minor serves as a tribute to these long-lost cradles of Hellenism which was so abruptly displaced at 1922 and bring us closer to people and places of past centuries.

On the left-hand pages of the book you will find the original artwork and short texts on the author/artist and the theme depicted. Scanning the QR code, you will be directed to the digital source of the image, in “Travelogues”. On the right-hand pages, the pictures are reproduced in a simplified manner, which you are welcome to colour, creating your own piece of art!

This little book aims to be an homage to the Acropolis, included in UNESCO’s World Heritage List. It is based on depictions of the monuments or statues and of the sculpted decoration made by travellers to Greece and the Ottoman Empire. The oldest of these images dates to the 17th century and the more recent ones to the 19th century. The original illustrations can be found on the left-hand pages, along with relevant information about the traveller or scene and a QR code leading to the website ‘Travelogues: Travellers’ Views’ of the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation; the contours designed for colouring are on the right-hand pages. Through the process of colouring in, users can focus their attention on the transformations of the Acropolis hill over time and get to know, inch by inch, its unique features; after all, statues and monuments used to bear colours in Antiquity, as one can still see in the Acropolis Museum. This is a book for children, as well as for adults, who love archaeology and art.

Under the supervision of Dr. Şükrü Ilıcak, a large group of researchers leaned over the Ottoman archives, which until now had not been studied. The two-volume edition, which exceeds 1,600 pages, includes 700 documents, transcribed from the ottoman language, translated and fully annotated. These are letters found in the Ayniyat Registers, in the Ottoman Archives of Constantinople, dating from June 1821 to 1826, when the Great Powers begun their official diplomatic intervention to the Greek Revolution. It is a project of international standards, undertaken for the first time by a Greek institution, a fact validated by the collaboration with Brill publishing house.

The publication is in English, honoring both the international impact of the Greek Revolution – it is clear today that we are talking about a pan-European event – as well as the global academic interest in these documents. In addition to new information about the battles and the events of the Greek War of Independence, these documents come to help historians and scholars understand the concept of revolution during the Greek uprising.

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The author, Dr. Iris Panayotopoulou, Architect-Town Planner, with respect and love for the island, describes in detail the evolution of Hydra Town, from a mountain enclosed village to a proud state open to the sea and finally to a historic settlement. Her many years of study, solidly documented, presents the natural landscape and its impact on the settlers, the way it spread from the mountain to the beach, recognizes and relates families and homes and investigates the urban structure of the settlement from ancient times to the present. Finally, it deals with the location, identification and connection of each building with the history of the families that inhabited it, citing a number of photographs, old and new. The rich documentation from the archives of IAMY, GAK, EIM, ELIA and not only, makes this project a “source” for future studies that will surely emerge.

The work of Konstantinos Tsitselikis, Professor of International Law at the University of Macedonia, deals with one of the least studied historical issues. From 1830 to 1947, the Greek territory developed rapidly, but without absolute certainties. Usually, the borders of Greece were secured successfully and permanently, but some times, they were drawn occasionally or ineffectively. They have always been associated with the program of national homogenization and national integration, but also with the geostrategic aspirations of the Forces. Occupation, domination, co-ownership, compose the complex shape of the genealogy of a stormy and bloody adventure that runs through the Greek territory before taking the form we know today. The stamp, Greek and foreign, is an indication and means of exercising power, occupation or sovereignty of the territory that became – or did not become – Greek. A strong symbol and message for who exercises political and institutional control over the land, the postage stamp, like the postmark, is associated with every corner of Greek territory once found on one side or the other of the border line.

The book won the honorable mention (Vermeil) in the category of works of philatelic literature with a promotional and historical character, in the competitive part of the European Philatelic Exhibition Notos 2021.