Thessaloniki

Protesters have broken into a conference center and clashed with police in northern Greece after gathering to demonstrate against the presence of a German government official. The protesting municipal workers pushed and threw coffee on a German diplomat who arrived...

Greek President Karolos Papoulias said on Oct. 28 - Oxi Day - that he believes the debt-ridden country will overcome the current economic crisis which threatens it with chaotic default, although he didn't say how, and as the economy...

The annual military parade held on October 28 in Thessaloniki to mark Greece's entry into the Second World War will be organized at a substantially reduced cost, daily Kathimerini reports. The National Defense General Staff (GEETHA) has brought the cost...

Thessaloniki Mayor Giannis Boutaris was chosen as the world's best mayor for the month of October in an online poll of City Mayors.com, a website that had ranked previously New York’s and London’s mayors the best for other months. “If...

Thessaloniki will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its liberation and incorporation into Greece with a three-day international symposium and an historical exhibition open to the locals and visitors of the Northern port city. Entitled Thessaloniki: A City in Transition, 1912-2012,...

As I was heading to the 7th Gymnasio-Lykeio of Thessaloniki, one of the occupied schools of the city, I was under the impression that that I was going to meet some students who didn't know exactly what they were...

With so many Greeks throwing up their hands in despair at a crushing economic crisis and harsh austerity measures, two young entrepreneurs, Padelis Zarkos and Stelios Plakidis, have shown there is still ingenuity in the country. The two have invented...

The excavations are undertaken by the 9th Ephorate of Byzantine Antiquities and the 16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classic Antiquities. According to the archaeological agencies, the subway digging takes place in areas that have seen little subsequent building activity,...

Four Russian tourists have died and 30 others were injured when a bus taking them to the airport overturned, Greek police said. The bus skidded off the road in the rain before dawn, 9.5 miles outside the northern city of...

Turkish Airlines launched a new initiative to promote the city of Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, to Turkish tourists by sending a 13-member mission to Ankara headed by Utku Yazan, Chairman of Turkish Airlines, along with members of Greek tourist...