Twice widowed and rich from the sea, Laskarina Bouboulina built her own warship, blockaded a fortress, and bankrolled the Greek Revolution — becoming one of the first women in history to command a fleet.
Continue reading →The pirate-queen whose navy unsettled Rome itself.
The first woman of Serbian letters, who wrote her grief in gold thread.
Albania's first great woman writer, silenced by a regime but not erased.
She marched in her brother's place and came home the most decorated of all.
The fourteen-year-old who scored the first perfect 10 in Olympic history.
Each recovered life comes with its place on the timeline, a map of the Balkans as it was, and primary sources for students and teachers to read for themselves.
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