News of the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives

April 11, 2024

Greece Liberated: Recognition and Establishment of Diplomatic and Consular Relations

The Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (YDIA) announces the release of its new publication entitled “Greece Liberated: Recognition and Establishment of Diplomatic and Consular Relations”. In essence, the volume is the catalog of the exhibition of the same title presented by YDIA in Greece and abroad on the […]

June 18, 2020

The digital platform of the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives is temporarily out of order due to technical problems (18/6/2020)

The digital platform of the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives at arxeio.mfa.gr is temporarily out of order due to technical problems. Until the operation of the platform is restored, as soon as possible, researchers who visit the reading-room of the Service and wish to order files for study, are kindly requested to contact the […]

April 8, 2016

The Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs is organizing an international Conference on the topic “Digital and electronic records and archives at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the European Union”

The Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives of the Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs is organizing an international Conference on the topic “Digital and electronic records and archives at the Ministries of Foreign Affairs of the European Union”. The Conference will take place on Tuesday 19 April, at 17:30, in the Amphitheatre “Y. Kranidiotis” (Akadimias […]

June 26, 2015

Opening of the new electronic platform for access to the archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

The Greek Ministry of Foreign Affairs is pleased to announce the beginning of the formal operation of its online electronic platform that allows access to its digitized archives, at the webpage arxeio.mfa.gr. After many years of efforts, the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives completed a large and innovative project, not only by the standards […]

November 16, 2011

An Award for the Director of the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives Mrs Photini Tomai in Washington, DC

During the celebration of the Greek National Day on October 28th in Washington, organized by Greek-Americans who founded the OXI DAY FOUNDATION, the Director of the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives Mrs Photini Tomai was nominated with the “Metropolitan of Zante Chrysostomos Award”. Mrs Tomai is the first recipient of this Award, which was […]

August 5, 2011

Release of the volume «Documentary History of Greece: 1943-1951, Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan» (July 2011)

In July 2011 a new book with diplomatic documents was released by the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives edited by the Director of the Service Photini Tomai. It is entitled “Documentary History of Greece: 1943-1951, Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan” (Papazisis Publishers, Athens 2011) and it is a translated and thoroughly revised and completed […]

February 17, 2011

March 2010: “The American People’s Support to the Greek War of Independence 1821”

In early March 2010 a new publication of Ministry of Foreign Affairs came out by the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives. Its title is “The American People’s Support to the Greek War of Independence 1821”. The first copy of the book was presented by the then Prime Minister George Papandreou to then US President […]

February 17, 2011

Presentation of the volume “Grazzi writes about the Italian attack against Greece”

On Thursday, 20 November 2008, at 12:00, the then Foreign Minister Ms. Dora Bakoyannis addressed an event organised by the Service of Diplomatic & Historical Archives at the Y. Kranidiotis amphitheatre on the occasion of the publication of a book entitled “Grazzi writes about the Italian attack against Greece” (in Greek). The book includes 21 […]

February 17, 2011

Release of the volume "History and Politics in the Work of Pantelis Voulgaris"

The fifth consecutive volume of the series "The testimony of cinematographic picture", realised by the Service of Diplomatic and Historical Archives of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and its Cinematographic Archive, was released by Papazisis Editions. It is entitled "History and Politics in the Work of Pantelis Voulgaris", edited by Photini Tomai. A well-known film […]