2nd millennium

After three months of extensive maintenance and conservation work, a 107-year-old battleship returned Wednesday to its berth in Athens, where it serves as a floating museum.

Variety magazine reported on Tuesday that UK actor Tom Hardy will produce and star in a film My War Gone By, I Miss It So, which is based on the 1999 memoirs of UK Bosnia war correspondent Anthony Loyd.

The daughter of Greek singer Lefteris Pantazis, sexy Konnie Metaxa is holidaying in Matala, Crete.

On the surface, the First Crusade looks like something with a simple cause – the hatred of one religious group for another. In reality, the causes were far more complex. A wide range of factors led to Pope Urban II’s call to arms in 1095, and to the eagerness of men to follow his lead.

A Violent Society

People convicted of committing crimes during the Bosnian war spend months at liberty because of procedural delays before going to prison - a situation which has angered victims’ groups.

Former fighters Senad Dzananovic, Edin Gadzo and Jasmin Erovic went on trial for participating in a joint criminal enterprise aimed at detaining Serb civilians in the Sarajevo area in 1992 and killing them.

Researcher and documentary maker Gülşah Çeliker has pushed the button to make a documentary on the famous 16th century Ottoman admiral, cartographer and sailor Piri Reis.

Çeliker, who made her name heard with the project on Turkey's first female fighter pilot, Sabiha Gökçen, says she is very excited to present the 75-minute documentary to Turkish and international audiences.

A commemoration of the 1992 killings of Yugoslav troops in Sarajevo was held outside the capital after Serb officials complained of inadequate security and refusals to allow them a permanent memorial.

The 25th anniversary of the killing of dozens JNA soldiers in Dobrovoljacka Street in Sarajevo will not be marked at the site of the massacre.

For the first time, the ceremony will be held in East Sarajevo, the Serb part of the town.

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Monday marks 22 years since the Croatian forces' aggression against Serb-populated areas in Western Slavonia, i.e., the start of Operation Bljesak ("flash").

During the subsequent two days in May 1995, 283 ethnic Serbs were either killed or went missing, including 55 women and 11 children.