Panionios was established in 1898 after the clubs Orpheus and Gymnasium of Smyrna were united. The activity of the new club, apart from athletics, was focused on fostering and encouraging any musical, philological and, in general, artistic attempt. Panionios established a school of gymnastics, whose classes were held in the yard of the Evangelical School. Moreover, a great part of its activities involved the organisation of the Panhellenic Games. In 1922 the club was transferred to Athens.

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General development as well as stylistic and typological features of pottery production in the big cities of Nikaia (İznik) and Çanakkale during Ottoman rule.

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Silversmithery and goldsmithery in the Pontic lands, an occupation to which the Greek-Orthodox of the Pontos played a significant role, is particularly interesting not only in regard to art, but also because of its important economic and social dimensions.

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The paintings of Spyros Papaloukas, Perikles Vyzantios and Pavlos Rodokanakis, who had been appointed “war painters” during the Asia Minor campaign, were first exhibited at Zappeion and later in Smyrna, where they were finally destroyed. The paintings and drawings were accompanied by a large number of photographs belonging to the photography department of the Army Mapping Service.