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With the economic world holding its breath over fears that Greece will default, Finance Minister Evangelos Venizelos told an international audience of bankers in Washington, D.C. that his country[...]

Constantinople, Byzantion, Poli, Istanbul. These are the names that Greeks usually use to refer to the once capital of Byzantium and today's largest city...

The mentality of palikaria is still prevalent in Greece today. Palikaria literally refers to the bandits that roamed the countryside during the Ottoman occupation,...

Greek director Antonis Maras will hopefully score an Oscar nomination for his short film "The Palace", inspired by real events of 1974, has already won three awards in Australia. "The Palace" won this year's prize...

One of the biggest celebrations of Orthodoxy is August 15, the day of the Assumption[...]

According to an article in the Greek newspaper “Eleftherotypia”, research was conducted by the Ephorate of Marine Antiquities from July 6-15 on the...

The first Byzantine museum of the Peloponnese will open at the barracks of Kapodistrias in Argos in one and a half years. The historical building of the...

Plaka, the "Neighborhood of the Gods" situated beneath the northeastern slope of the Acropolis[...]

This is the third year Greece is dealing with a financial crisis and some propose that since salaries have been cut  and people are becoming unemployed, maybe...

Chrysovalantis Stamelos is a young Greek-American filmmaker living in Turkey for the last year. Valantis, as his friends call him, grew up listening to...