On Friday December 1st, 2017 at 19:00, the National Research Foundation "Eleftherios K. Venizelos" organizes at its premises in Halepa an event celebrating the anniversary of the Union of Crete...
1864: Birth of Eleftherios Venizelos in the village of Mournies, Hania, on August 11. 1866: Venizelos's family took to the Island of Kythira, persecuted in the wake of the Cretan Revolution...
1910: Eleftherios Venizelos became the President of the Cretan Assembly and Prime Minister of the Cretan State on May 2. Venizelos’s political friends submitted his candidacy in the Greek elections...
1921: Despite pre-electoral promises, Venizelos's opponents continued the expedition in Asia Minor. Large-scale attack of the Greek army in Turkey's hinterland (June 28), culminating in the battle by River Sakarya. 1922:...
1928-1932: Venizelos returned to active politics, obtaining a resounding victory in the elections of August 19, 1928. Greek-Italian Treaty of Friendship (September 23, 1928). Venizelos's government remained in power for...
2019-2020 (18th): "The international impact of the foreign policy of Eleftherios Venizelos and the Treaty of Sevres (1920)". 1st prize: Vasililiki-Konstantina Aravantinou Zafeiri, Private High School “Othisi”. 2nd prize: Pavlos Papadimitriou, High...
Eleftherios Venizelos’s life stretched out evenly across the 19th and the 20th centuries. He lived during the most turbulent period of Modern Greek History, which he marked indelibly in his...
Eleftherios Venizelos has been identified with both the peak of the Great Idea for the Treaty of Sèrves of 1920 and with its final liquidation at the Treaty of Lausanne...
Eleftherios Venizelos had the capability of choosing his collaborators, inspiring them with his vision, and of monitoring personally every creative activity. Thanks to these merits, which had already been manifested...
Venizelos began his political career in Crete in 1889 as a member of the liberal party of the island, and distinguished himself as a politician during the 1897 Revolution. During...