Greece

A ten-year-old Greek student who lives on a small Ionian island had the privilege of parading all alone on OXI day. It sounds like an oddity, but it is a fairly usual situation in remote island student parades every...

Greece will mark the 80th anniversary of the heroic OXI Day on Wednesday without the annual military parade which traditionally takes place in Thessaloniki, due to the coronavirus pandemic. As cases of the virus skyrocketed over recent weeks, all mass...

Stelios Petsas, Deputy Minister to the Prime Minister and government spokesman, announced on Monday that the country's traditional military and school parades on October 28th would not take place this year due to coronavirus concerns. Although Greece's virus numbers remain...

Greek authorities announced on Wednesday that all student parades which traditionally take place across the country every March 25, on the occasion of Greece's Independence Day, will be canceled this year. The decision comes as the latest addition to a series...

Each year, March 25th and April 1st marks the day when revolutionary Greeks took up arms against the Ottomans and the EOKA fighters rose against British colonialism. Both revolutions liberated the Hellenic nation. They did so because of a...

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...

This Friday vehicles will not be able to enter many roads around the city center of Athens as the capital will be closed off for the annual Oxi Day parades, which commemorates Greece's former military general and Prime Minister...

Among the numerous pre-electoral commitments made by the SYRIZA party was that it would remove metal railings from parades that take place each year in central points of Greek cities. These barriers had been introduced by the previous Greek government, and had been...

For the third consecutive year, thousands of police officers and strict security measures were deployed in order to shut down Athens’ and Thessaloniki’s centers for the parades commemorating the country’s heroic entry into World War Two. In both cities,...

The military parade marking Greece’s Independence Day on March 25 took place amid a heavy police presence that barred onlookers from most of the route. The center of Athens reminded of an impregnable fortress, with 14 police vans around the...

The National Independence Day of March 25th was celebrated this year in Greece amidst tight security measures not only in the capital city, but across the country as well. In Thessaloniki the parade started ten minutes later than scheduled, while...

The parades of March 25th celebrating the Independence of Greece from Turkish slavery will take place as usual, according to the interministerial decision taken on Monday at noon. In a meeting headed by Greek PM Lucas Papademos and joined by...

Greeks protesting austerity measures sabotaged the national school student parades in many areas of Greece. In Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, the demonstrators heckled President Karolos Papoulias and other attending officials, calling them traitor.  Some anarchists spat at retired military officers. In...

The historic Grande Bretagne Hotel was built less than fifty years after Greece won its independence and the modern Greek State was beginning to take form. It was built across the King's Palace and now stands across the Greek Parliament...

Greeks from Athens to Sydney celebrated Greek Independence Day and the Greek War for Independence with parades on Sunday.