The Battle of Menina between the Greek Resistance and the Nazis ended on this day, August 18, in 1944 with the Greeks crushing the German occupiers and their Cham Albanian allies.
It was a major blow against the German occupation...
One of the very few inhabited lake islands in Europe is in Greece. The island of Ioannina Lake holds a unique record as it is the only inhabited island of its size in the world without an official name.
Often...
The historic city of Ioannina, the capital of Epirus in northwestern Greece, marks February 21st as the day of liberation from the Ottoman Empire.
The day the city came under the control of the Greek forces, aviator Christos Adamidis, a native...
On 280 Broome Street, a quiet subsection of the Lower East Side (LES) of Manhattan, a narrow but ornate Classical and Moorish Revival-style building sits across the street from a photocopy shop and an art gallery: the Kehila Kedosha...
Ioannina, known as the "City of Silversmiths," proudly embraces a cultural identity shaped over centuries by the fine art of silverwork. In 2024, the city honored this heritage by launching the "Month of Silversmithing" in May—a vibrant program of...
The Happy City Index is back for its sixth edition and with 200 global hubs assessed, Copenhagen in Denmark earns the title of the happiest city in the world while two Greek cities, Athens and Ioannina, in northwestern Greece...
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis outlined his program for child protection from social media and Greece's economic progress in his last address for 2024 on a Facebook post.
The Greek PM started his post saying that while other European countries...
Zanet Nachmia, the last Holocaust survivor from the city of Ioannina, Greece died shortly before her 100th birthday the Jewish Museum of Greece announced on Wednesday.
Nachmia was born in Ioannina in 1925, one of the six children of Haim...
