There are several famous neighborhoods and squares in Athens with strange names, whose origins even Athenians are unaware of.
Plateia Amerikis, or America Square, is an iconic square in Athens. The busy square was named in 1927, as the municipal...
The Patriarchal Monastery of Agia Triada Tsagarolon (Holy Trinity), located on the Akrotiri Peninsula fn the island of Crete, was built in the seventeenth century by two brothers, Jeremiah and Lorenzo, who belonged to the old, noble Venetian family...
The Jockey of Artemision, a large Greek bronze sculpture of a young boy riding a horse, is a magnificent surviving statue from Ancient Greece and a rare example of a racehorse in Greek sculpture.
It was discovered in the fall...
Greek honey is selling better than ever abroad, with exports climbing by around 10.5 percent in 2025 to more than $31 million. Officials say, however, that the real challenge now is protecting the product’s origin and making sure more...
Greece's island of Samos, the birthplace of mathematician and philosopher Pythagoras as well as astronomer Aristarchus, has a fascinating history tied to the myth of the Argonauts and the birth of Hera, the queen of the gods.
The first recorded...
Greece has opened a draft national strategy for semiconductors and microelectronics for public consultation, setting out how the country hopes to build a larger role in chip design, research and specialized manufacturing between 2026 and 2030.
The Development Ministry is...
Greece's national weather service has issued an extraordinary bulletin warning of heavy rain and thunderstorms across much of the country on Sunday, November 1, and Monday, November 2, with a chance of heavy hail.
The Hellenic National Meteorological Service, known...
The new muftis of Komotini and Xanthi were sworn in at Greece’s Education Ministry on Friday, completing a selection process that drew competing statements from Athens and Ankara last week.
Bilal Kara Halil took the oath as mufti of Komotini...
A female Eurasian brown bear in a file photo from Slovenia. The image does not show the bear killed in Prespa. Credit: Charles J. Sharp / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0. CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo source.
A young female...
Greece’s citizen protection minister has called for an immediate review of the rules governing political gatherings after police said they had no legal authority to stop an indoor event organized by Ilias Kasidiaris in Thessaloniki.
Kasidiaris, a former Golden Dawn...
Greece’s new pay-transparency rules take effect on Sunday, November 1, requiring private-sector employers to explain how they set wages and to give job candidates pay information before the first interview.
The rules implement Law 5316/2026, which transposed the EU’s pay-transparency...
OTE reported a 3.1% increase in third-quarter adjusted core earnings Friday as Greece’s largest telecommunications operator added fiber customers and maintained its full-year outlook.
Adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization after leases reached €371.4 million, while revenue rose...
Train and suburban rail services across Greece were disrupted on Friday as railway workers staged a 24-hour strike over disciplinary measures, safety concerns and working conditions. The walkout followed a court ruling against the drivers’ union’s original strike and...
Archaeologists have uncovered human remains in northern Greece that could shed new light on burial practices during the Late Neolithic period. Two graves were found beside an ancient enclosure at Toumba Serron, a prehistoric settlement near Serres. The discovery...
