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A team of architects and civil engineers of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) and the Supervisory Committee of the Institute of Venice are racing against time and extreme weather conditions to preserve and protect the historic Greek cemetery...

Agreements have been reached this week between the board of the Athens War Museum and regional authorities for Lamia to get its own Museum of Modern Greek History. The establishment of the museum, according to a memorandum of cooperation signed...

Google is honoring the 25th of March, a day celebrating the Greek Revolution of 1821, and the Annunciation with its current Doodle, which is a waving Greek flag. The 25th of March is celebrated with solemnity every year in Greece, Cyprus,...

August 1 marks the 195th anniversary since the first Greek newspaper “Elliniki Salpinx” was published in Kalamata by Theoklitos Farmakidis. The newspaper was published using the printing equipment that Demetrios Ypsilantis had brough to Greece from Trieste. Farmakidis, was born...

The Greek revolution of 1821 was the result of European and Greek Enlightenment and a carrier of modern values of freedom with social justice, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said in his message ahead of the Greek Independence Day...

For us Greeks, March 25, 1821 is a date that fills us with national pride. It marks our liberation from Ottoman rule and the start of the independent, modern Greek state. Yet historians beg to differ, ruining a good myth,...

After picketing their homes, jeering them, pelting them with yogurt, throwing bottles and stones at them, Greek citizens have taken to venting their frustration with the country’s economic woes by hurling eggs at politicians. Deputy Minister for Citizen’s Protection Manolis...

7hcOYs659uQ Greece, why did we destroy everything at Syntagma? The stairs, the benches, the camps that people had created protesting against a government that was voted by the people and then couldn't live up to its promises....

General strike sees thousands of protesters gathering in the center of Athens, mostly workers who happily took time off from their jobs to protest against a new round of austerity reforms which must pass in two parliamentary votes on Wednesday and Thursday.

yUMjuGMeWug The above video is based on an old Apple commercial with real pictures of Spain and Greece.  The video shows the broad range of Greece's protesters, from little kids to elderly couples taking up Greece's squares and streets trying...