Thessaloniki

A Greek court has imposed life sentences on two men convicted of dealing in ancient treasure worth an estimated €12 million, which had been illegally excavated from a cemetery in northern Greece. The court in the northern city of Thessaloniki...

Bulgarian winter resorts of Bansko, Borovets and Pamporovo expect a surge in Greek visitors for Christmas and New Year's Eve. The Bulgarian National Radio, BNR, reported that Greek tour operators are getting requests only for nearby destinations and cheap...

Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) Managing Director for Greece and Cyprus Alexandros Averkiadis has reportedly told the Deputy Governor of the Region of Macedonia and Thrace Dionysis Psomiadis that the airline will increase its  presence in northern Greece by launching...

The business and tradition of Greek doilies is about to become extinct in Greece. Perikles Toumbektsis,  the owner of perhaps the only small textile factory remaining in Greece, talked about the art and business of Greek doilies and how the country's...

Greek riot police used tear gas Thursday to disperse youths throwing firebombs and stones during an Athens protest to mark the fourth anniversary of a deadly police shooting that triggered major disturbances. No injuries or arrests were reported from the...

Thessaloniki is among the the 20 travelers destinations that someone should visit on 2013 according to the list of National Geographic. The article focuses on the city port, which calls it ''luminous'' due to the fact that it is...

A Greek-Bulgarian family has been living at the airport in the German city of Munich for almost six months, writes the German Sueddeutsche Zeitung daily. The three-member family consists of a Greek citizen who was named only as Athanasios,...

Mario Modiano, a Jewish-Greek journalist who chronicled some of the most turbulent times of modern Greek history, died at the age of 86. Modiano, whose family survived the Holocaust that decimated the historic Jewish community of Thessaloniki by fleeing to...

The Greek public transport company KTEL suspended almost all its services on Nov. 26 from Thessaloniki because of financial problems. Only the Athens-Thessaloniki line will run, along with trips to take pupils to local schools, as Kathimerini online reports. The...

The presence of refugees in Thessaloniki, from 1912 until today was the topic of a conference from Nov. 23-25 on the city's past as a refugee capital, organized with the help of the historical archive, IAPE. The conference was held...