Greece

March 25 is a very important date for Hellenism as it marks both the anniversary of the Greek War of Independence and the Annunciation.

On March 25, the most important day in the calendar, Greeks traditionally eat fried hake accompanied with a garlic puree called skordalia.

Cities around the world turned Greek on March 25, 2021, on the occasion of the bicentennial of the start of the Greek War of Independence.

March 25 is a very important date for Hellenism as it marks both the anniversary of the Greek War of Independence and the Annunciation.

Dozens of Athens schools participated in the annual student parade passing through the Monument of the Unknown Soldier in front of the Greek Parliament celebrating March 25th on Sunday. The students paraded through streets in central Athens while thousands of...

President Prokopis Pavlopoulos on Friday said that the anniversary of Greek independence day should be a day of inspiration for every Greek and an opportunity to learn. He made his remarks in a message for Greeks abroad before the...

The annual March 25th parade in Athens in honor of Greece's 1821 War of Independence had additional significance this year since the country is in the midst of disputes over its territorial and national integrity. President of the Hellenic Republic...

A rally in solidarity with the two Greek soldiers held in Turkey for inadvertently straying into the country is being organized for March 25 -- Greek Independence Day -- in Thessaloniki. The demonstration organized by various groups through social media...

For Greece to be outside Europe is inconceivable, while Europe cannot be what it was founded to be without Greece," President of the Hellenic Republic Prokopis Pavlopoulos international personally said on Friday, in a message for the March 25...

Traffic police on Thursday announced special traffic measures in the center of Athens on Friday and Saturday, due to the school and military parades taking place in Greece's capital to mark the March 25 Independence Day anniversary. Cars will be...

The Acropolis Museum is celebrating Independence Day on March 25 with the presentation of a copy of “Kore 685”, on which Swiss painter Émile E. Gilliéron (1885–1939) added the ancient colours, based on the prints created by his father,...

For us Greeks, March 25, 1821 is a date that fills us with national pride. It marks our liberation from Ottoman rule and the start of the independent, modern Greek state. Yet historians beg to differ, ruining a good myth,...

Tradition calls for Greeks, every year on the anniversary of March 25th, to have hake with garlic dip for their family dinner. The reason behind this tradition is that apart from being a National Holiday, March 25th is also a...

SYRIZA and PASOK MPs strongly objected to a nationalistic chant by Greek navy seals (OYK) at the March 25 parade. During the parade, the navy seals chanted several of their slogans, but one in particular angered a number of MPs. "Our dream is to enter...

Completely different from what Athenians have seen so far will be this year's military parade in celebration of the Greek Independence Day on March 25. The first parade to take place under the leftist SYRIZA-led government will remind nothing of...