Greece

Periklis Ilias has won the Gold Medal at the 2012 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships that was held at Ornans, in France. Despite adverse weather conditions and the fact that he was hit with hypoglychemic shock, Ilias, leader of...

On Saturday, April 28 at Basketball Stadium at Elliniko (Poseidonos Ave. at Old airport of Elliniko, 1st stop at Agios Kosmas) during Iron Challenge, International Greek kickboxing World Champion Iron Mike Zambidis will fight again on Greek land and...

The Greek athlete Spyridon Gianniotis defended his title in the grueling 10-kilometer open water event at the Swimming World Championships in Barcelona, Spain on July 22, and won the gold medal. Gianniotis clocked 1 hour, 49 minutes, 11.8 seconds in...

Greece won the gold medal at the women’s FINA World Youth Water Polo Championships at Perth’s Challenge Stadium on Dec. 9, beating Hungary, 9-5. Hungary had reached the final by beating pre-tournament favorite Russia, 14-11, and Greece advanced by beating...

Greece's Dimitrios Chondrokoukis won the world indoor men's high jump title at the World Track and Field Championship in Istanbul on Sunday. Chondrokoukis managed a best of 2.33 metres and won on countback from Russian Andrey Silnov. Another Russian, Ivan...

A Greek exporter of pomegranate oil says that he cannot make enough product to satisfy the current world demand for the oil of this fruit.

Τhe Platonic Academy was founded by Plato himself in 428/427 BC in Athens, and is considered to be the world's first university.

Mordechai Frizis (Μαρδοχαίος Φριζής), who fought in the Crimea and in the doomed Asia Minor campaign as well as the two World Wars, was the first senior officer in the Greek Army to fall on the battlefield during the...

A place of universal historic and cultural interest, the ruins of the School of Aristotle are located just two miles from the contemporary town of Naoussa in the Greek region of Macedonia. Located in the region of Esvoria along the...

There has been an astronomic rise in the demand for Greek yogurt outside of its home country due to its taste and health benefits.

The World Happiness Report, which measures the happiest countries in the world, recently released its rankings, and both Greece and Cyprus measure in the top 100. Greece ranks at the fifty-eighth spot on the list, a stunning 10-spot increase from...

Greece announced that a total of 20,507 new coronavirus cases had been diagnosed around the country on Friday, while 108 people suffering with the virus had passed away over the past 24 hours. The increased death rate per million in...

The world's most beautiful restaurant is located in Greece, according to a ranking by travel site "The Travel." The hidden gem, which is called, appropriately, "The Secret Garden," located on the beautiful Greek island of Symi, was ranked number one...

Greek cuisine was rated the second best in the world for 2021 by TasteAtlas, a travel guide focused on international cuisines and traditional dishes. The list, which was compiled based on over 100,000 user ratings, also included the most delicious...

Greek tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas reached a career high on Monday, when he officially ranked among the top three tennis players in the world.