Constantine

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Greece is home to Pavlos, son of the former King Constantine, who, along with his brother Nikolaos and other family members, filed an application to regain Greek citizenship at the Athens Registry Office, stating that he chooses the surname De Grece.

Some time ago, the eldest son of former King Constantine, Pavlos, decided to act on his father’s wish for his family to regain Greek citizenship, which they had lost under the infamous Venizelos Law of 1994.

When television still had strong doses of romance, in the 1980s, I remember as a child watching a gentleman on the screen who, although I felt that he was somehow looking at us watching him from the living room of our house, deep down I believed that he wanted us to listen to him more and watch him less.

Pavlos, the son of former Greek King Constantine, is reportedly making steps toward regaining Greek citizenship, though a key legal obstacle remains: the issue of a last name.

Conservation work inside a monastery near the town of Aigio in the Peloponnese has revealed a mural of Constantine XI Palaiologos (1405-1453) that an expert says is the only known living portrait of the last Byzantine emperor.

50 years ago, on December 8, 1974, on a sunny Sunday, the Greeks, in seemingly the most democratic way, through a referendum and in a state of full freedom, solved once and for all the question of the form of government. It was a problem nearly inherent in the establishment of the modern Greek state, which had divided the Greek people and had been the cause of many calamities.

Prof. Nikolay Ovcharov has revealed that new archaeological findings suggest Bulgaria fell under Ottoman control between 1420 and 1422, rather than the commonly accepted date of 1396, BTA reported. At a briefing in Vidin, Ovcharov, alongside Assoc. Prof. Zdravko Dimitrov, discussed the results of excavations in Bononia, where around 200 coins were uncovered.

Pope Francis said on Thursday that he hopes to travel to Turkey next year to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, Christianity's first ecumenical council.

The visit to Nicaea, today located in İznik on a lake southeast of Istanbul, would come during Francis' big Holy Year, the once-every-quarter-century celebration of Christianity.

The wedding took place at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens in the presence of family and friends – Distinguished guests attended – Watch videos and photos.

Today, Theodora Glücksburg, daughter of the former King Constantine, married her beloved Matthew Kumar at the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens.

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