January 26

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Events

  • 1699: Through the Treaty of Karlowitz, Morea passes from the Ottoman Empire to Venice.
  • 1944: 43 Greeks are executed outside Kozani by the occupation forces.
  • 1989: Two masked men rob the Post Office of Chania, Crete of some 47,000,000 drachmas.
  • 1995: Greek Foreign Minister, Karolos Papoulias, cancels his visit to Auschwitz for the 50th anniversary of the camp's liberation, on account of the Polish government's raising of the flag of FYROM with the sunburst of Vergina at the camp.

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