Thessaloniki

Greece on Saturday said a planned Holocaust museum in Thessaloniki, scene of thousands of Nazi deportations during WWII, would be part of efforts to "redress historical injustices against the Greek Jewish community". In a statement to mark Holocaust Memorial Day,...

  Visitors to Thessaloniki will be able to enjoy one of its historical gems up close and personal for the first time in seven years, as of next week. The northern city’s 4th-century Galerian Complex is being opened to visitors by...

  Greece can expect more tourists from the Gulf this summer as U.A.E. carrier FlyDubai has revealed it will launch direct flights between Dubai and Thessaloniki later this year. The flights to Greece's second city will operate three times a week...

Greece's Central Board of Jewish Communities (CBJCG) has condemned the desecration of Thessaloniki’s Holocaust Monument which took place on Sunday. The words 'Golden Dawn' — the name of a Greek far-right party — were daubed on the base of the...

The timing for talks between Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) on the Balkan country's name is "ideal," U.S. Ambassador to Athens Geoffrey Pyatt has said. Pyatt was in Thessaloniki for a Monday meeting with Mayor Yiannis Boutaris,...

Greek riot police used tear gas on Monday evening, to disperse a large crowd of leftists demonstrating in Thessaloniki against the torching of an occupied building by ‘fascists’. A crowd of around 500 people gathered outside the building, accusing the...

It was 26 years ago and it seems like it was another country. It was Feb. 14, 1992, a time that looks distant and bizarre in today's Greece, blighted by the ongoing, crippling economic crisis. But 1992 was a year...

Outrage has followed the vandalism of a Holocaust memorial in Greece's second city of Thessaloniki. The words "Golden Dawn" -- the name of a Greek far-right party -- were daubed on the base of the sculpture which commemorates the 54,000...

A historic building occupied by activists in Thessaloniki has been torched during a massive rally in the Greek port city against use of the term 'Macedonia' for Greece's northern neighbor. Emergency services deployed six water tenders and at least 15...

A group of demonstrators participating in Sunday’s rally against the use of the name ‘Macedonia’ by FYROM set upon Greece’s former deputy minister of Education, Kostas Zouraris. Zouraris, who last week resigned from his post following uproar over insulting comments...