Welcome to the first portal of the General State Archives’ Central Service.  The G.S.A. is a centre of national heritage and its main goal is to protect and preserve Greek historical memory. Through this new portal the vast archival collection of G.S.A., from pre-revolution years until our times, becomes available to all.  Public and private archives, documents and manuscripts collected throughout modern history provide testimony of the national cultural heritage as well as an inside view of the administrative, economic and social life of Greece.

The G.S.A. is a free-access archive centre ensuring availability to public documents. Still, engagements imposed by law 1946/1991 as well as restrictions posed by Personal Data Protection Authority are kept.

Through the use of digital technology, the G.S.A. will be able to contribute to scientific research utilizing the advantages offered by internet, as researchers throughout the world can have access to the archival collections and items.

In addition G.S.A. will plan a substantial role in the distribution of historical records to Greek citizens and in their familiarization with archival documents, thus rendering friendly the access to historical sources.

Finally the publication of archival evidences in the internet offers the possibility for future collaboration with other institutions, further exploitation of digital information towards the direction of undertaking other actions in the frame of projecting and exploiting our cultural heritage.

Through its new portal the G.S.A. aims to come out of the “closed” archive world and into the researchers’ society in an attempt to promote our services in a dynamic and friendly way for everybody to see.

Hoping that the community will correspond to this opening, we wish all users of the new GSA portal a pleasant and fruitful exploration in the world of Archives.

Please forgive us any potential weaknesses or lacks, as we are still in the beginning of this essential attempt.