BENAKI MUSEUM KOLONAKI

 This group of collections comprises many distinct categories totaling more than 30.000 items illustrating the character of the Greek world through a spectacular historical panorama: from antiquity and the age of Roman domination to the medieval Byzantine period; from the fall of Constantinople in 1453 and the centuries of Frankish and Ottoman occupation; to the outbreak of the struggle for independence in 1821; from the formation of the modern state of Greece in 1830, up to 1922, the year in which the Asia Minor disaster took place.