John Metaxas was born in Ithaca at April 12, 1871. His family roots refer in Byzantium. For more than 500 years, the Metaxas family offered warriors, diplomats, politicians, thinking men, revolutionists and clerics. The head of the Metaxas family was Marcos Antonios, who was advisor and co-warrior of the Emperor Constantinos Palaiologos. In 1879 the [...]

On January 29, 1941 one of Modern Hellas’ greatest leaders, Ioannis Metaxas, passed away.
Born on the island of Ithaki (Ithaca) on the 12 of April 1871, Metaxas was a student at the Military Academy in Athens from 1885 to 1889. He fought in the Turkish War of 1897 under the leadership of Crown Prince Constantine. [...]

From Time magazine, Feb. 10, 1941
In Belgrade last fortnight a German medical specialist boarded a fast Greek military plane for Athens. The chief surgeon of the British Mediterranean Fleet was rushing simultaneously in the same direction. Both were bound for the bedside of Greece’s Premier, General John Metaxas. Both arrived too late.
Only after his death [...]

By Professor Cristian Muntianu
The ending of ’30 years represented for Europe and for the world the outbreak of the Second World War.
In this study, I’ll approach the diplomatic actions of Greece and Romania. I’ll try a critical exam of Romanian Foreign Policy, the links with Balkan Entente and, not least, the position of Greece.
I don’t [...]

From Wikipedia
John Metaxas (Greek Ιωάννης Μεταξάς, April 12, 1871 - January 29, 1941) was a Greek General and the Prime Minister of Greece from 1936 until his death.
Born in Ithaca, John Metaxas was a career soldier, first seeing action in 1897 fighting the Turkish army in the Thessalian campaign. Following studies in Germany, he returned [...]

The Epic Victory by Greece-Its Significance
65 Years Later Parallels Ancient Salamis For The Civilized World
by Peter N. Yiannos
{Stated sadly and bitterly during the Nuremberg trials after WWII, by Hitler ’s dejected Chief of Staff Field Marshall Keitel: “The unbelievable strong resistance of the Greeks delayed by two or more vital months the German attack against [...]

by Andreas Markessinis
One of the main symbols of the Fourth of August regime was the labrys. The labrys is the double-headed axe, known to the Classical Greeks and to modern Greek speakers as pelekys (πέλεκυς). Metaxas chose the labrys as symbol for his regime because he believed it to be the oldest symbol of all [...]

by Andreas Markessinis
During the interwar years fascist tendencies had been manifested in various ways in Greece and admiration had been repeatedly expressed for the Italian and German systems. What follows here is a brief approach to the foundations of Greek National Socialism in last century’s 20’s and 30’s decades.
At the theoretical level, Ion Dragoumis had [...]

(Various sources)
The National Tourist Organization also started a publicity campaign about the beauty of nature in Greece 8 whilst in 1933 a new law (5181) regulated the operation of hotels and introduced the idea of listing them by rank of comfort 9. In 1935, development of the hotel business was developed enough so that the [...]

By P.J. Vatikiotis
“The first two years of the Metaxas Regime was a productive one, full of frantic activity regarding domestic social and economic policy, regime security, and external and foreign relations: Greek-British relations, for instance, were crucial. After Metaxas and his regime were taken up more or less completely with the EON (National Youth Organization) [...]