Volume Presentation: “The Salonica Theatre of Operations and the outcome of the Great War”: International Conference Proceedings.

The volume "The Salonica Theatre of Operations & the Outcome of the Great War", published by the Institute for Balkan Studies and the Foundation “Eleftherios K. Venizelos”, was presented on Monday, November 14th, 2005, at the Old Parliament.
The presentation was organised by the two Foundations and the speakers were Konstantinos Svolopoulos, Academic – CEO of the Foundation “Konstantinos G. Karamanlis”, Christos Panagopoulos, President and Advising Manager of ERT, Pantelis Kapsis, Manager of the newspaper TA NEA, Ioannis Mourelos, Substitute Professor at the University of Thessaloniki – Vice-President of the Institute for Balkan Studies and Nikolaos Papadakis, CEO of the National Research Foundation “Eleftherios K. Venizelos”. Konstantinos Plaitis, President of the Pancretan Association, gave a short speech and the event coordinator was Eleni Gardika Katsiadaki, Researcher of the Academy of Athens, Scientific Advisor of the Foundation.
This is a collective publication with the participation of distinguished Greek and foreign scientists, who had participated in an international convention on the same topic, organised by the two Institutes, in Thessaloniki, in April 2002.
The publication aims at the projection of the substantial contribution of the Salonica Theatre of Operations to the outcome of the First World War, as Thessaloniki was the starting point of the victorious counter attack, in September 1918, that led to the gradual capitulation of Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire, Austria-Hungary and finally, Germany.