Greece

The story of Hellenism in Alexandria goes back more than two millennia, when Alexander the Great established the city.

Prokopios Pavlopoulos, the President of the Republic of Greece, had a meeting on Monday with Mostafa El Feki, Director of the Center of Hellenistic Studies at the Library of Alexandria in Egypt, in which he highlighted the importance of...

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Theodoros II, the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa, at Maximos Mansion on Wednesday. Patriarch Theodoros reportedly emphasized the importance of the African continent in the modern world and called for the Prime Minister's support...

Cyprus, Greece and Egypt have signed a cooperation protocol that aims to bring Cypriots and Greeks; who used to live in Alexandria, back to the city, under the auspices of the "Nostos" project. The project is an initiative of Egyptian...

Wreckage of the Egyptair aircraft lost Thursday from radar were detected in the Mediterranean, 290 km north of Alexandria, according to an Egyptian television broadcast. The TV report said that some personal belongings of passengers have been found, while the...

The Vice President of the Greek government and Foreign Minister, Evangelos Venizelos, sent a message of concern, friendship and sympathy to the people of Egypt right after his meeting with the Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodoros II,...

AUTH Rector Yiannis Mylopoulos with the Educative Attaché Embassy of the Arabic Republic of Egypt in Athens, Dr. Hisham Darwish, discussed the opportunities for cooperation between the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Library of Alexandria. Darwish, submitted a proposal...

Patriarch of Alexandria and All Africa Theodore was appointed Honorary Professor at the Law School of Athens in the event room of the University of Athens, yesterday June 9. Among the attendees were the representative of Archbishop of Athens and...

The government of the Republic of Cyprus has decided to grant land in the suburban area of Nicosia to the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria for building a Missionary Centre. Patriarch of Alexandria and all Africa, Theodore II, was received...

Patriarch Theodore II of Alexandria and all Africa honored the Foreign Affairs Minister of the Republic of Cyprus, Erato Kozakou Markoullis, with the Cross of St. Marcus for the aid and support of the Republic to the missionary and...

The Greek Foreign Ministry announced that three C-130 military aircrafts will depart the Elefsis military airport for Alexandria tomorrow morning, February 1st at 9:00 a.m. Currently there are two-hundred members of the Greek community in Alexandria who wish to leave the country. In...

On April 10, 1826, the 10,500 Missolonghi inhabitants, after one year of siege, made the heroic "Exodus of Missolonghi"

A Solar eclipse was one of the phenomena that prompted the ancient Greeks to come up with the most brilliant astronomic discoveries.

Hypatia, one of the greatest philosophers of Alexandria, was admired for her groundbreaking ideas but was brutally murdered for them by Christian fanatics in the fourth century AD. Born around the year 360, Hypatia was a female Greek philosopher, astronomer...

The fireships were a weapon of necessity used by the skilled sailors of the Greek navy to a devastating, asymmetric effect during the Greek War of Independence.