According to legend, Pandrasus, an ancient Greek king of Epirus, ruled over an enslaved community of Trojans sometime after the Trojan War. This legend tells the story of how King Pandrasus was defeated and how the Trojans escaped captivity....
Greek seismologists sought to reassure the public following a 5.3 magnitude earthquake that struck Thesprotia, Epirus in the early hours of Sunday, March 8, 2026.
The tremor was recorded at 5:32 PM local time and occurred at a focal depth...
The Greek hero Odysseus is most famous for his journey back to Ithaca after the Trojan War, as related in Homer's Odyssey. However, Ancient Greek accounts refer to a second journey he undertook. Unlike the first, Odysseus' second journey has...
Greece's Ministry of Culture is proceeding with the restoration of the Ancient Theater of Gitana in Epirus' Thesprotia region.
Gitana (or Gitanai) was far more than a simple settlement; it was the political and administrative heart of the Thesprotian tribe....
Gitana was the second, and one of the most important, capitals and political centers of Ancient Thesprotia, a region in Epirus, Northwestern Greece.
It has now become one of the major cities of the Epirus Cultural Route, the very first...
The landscape looks like it belongs to another place, not mainland Greece. But the Bella Vraka beach in Epirus, washed by the waters of the Ionian Sea, is a place full of splendor and summertime magic.
Looking more like an...
The remarkable fortified settlement of Osdina or Ouzdina in the region of Thesprotia, western Greece, opened to the public Tuesday, October 20, under the name "Archaeological Park of Byzantine-Post Byzantine Settlement of Ouzdina".
The abandoned fortress-town of Ouzdina, that was...
A Belgian woman in Thesprotia in northern Greece has been found collecting stray dogs and exporting them to owners abroad. The woman, in conjunction with veterinarians, first managed to secure legal permits for the dogs before selling them to...
Hellenic Police Chief, Lieutenant General Nikos Papagiannopoulos, rushed to Epirus on July 8 to see up close the course of the operation to locate the two dangerous Albanian escapees from the Trikala Prison, and put together a new plan...
A twenty-year-old nursing student was stabbed to death on April 10, at midday, in the rural town of Filiata in Thesprotia, Northwest Greece. The perpetrator was a twenty five-year-old livestock farmer.
According to reports, the young man arrived with his...
