Greece

Pontic Greek, which closely resembles Ancient Greek still lives on today, in communities near Turkey's Black Sea coast.

De la Conquête de Constantinople (On the Conquest of Constantinople), one of the oldest surviving examples of French prose, is considered to be the most important historical source on the Fourth Crusade and the tragic Sack of Constantinople. As disturbing...

Chios is the fifth-largest island in Greece, and it is a hidden gem waiting to be unveiled. Its surrounded by the sparkling, deep sapphire waters of the Aegean Sea.

Tens of thousands of ethnically-Greek orphans -- or, more often, children who were simply without fathers, due to war or other causes -- were taken abroad

Greek born adoptees seeking to know more about their roots, and Greek families searching for their children lost to adoption, have gathered in Nashville, Tennessee for what's being billed as the first annual Greek adoptee reunion. Families and individuals from...

More than 130,000 olive saplings have been donated to farmers in the area surrounding Ancient Olympia in the northwest Peloponnese, replacing some of the hundreds of thousands that burned in last summer's devastating wildfires. An official ceremony in the...

"Man of God" a film centered on the life of St. Nektarios became an unexpected hit in the US. The film was only shown in select theaters on March 21, and was originally meant to be released for one night...

A protest in support of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people was held in Athens, Greece on Tuesday evening. Thousands of protestors called for the end of the war in Ukraine, and spoke out against the Russian invasion and Russian President...

Fully vaccinated travelers from the US, Australia, and Canada no longer need to provide a negative Covid test to enter Greece. Greek Tourism Minister Vassilis Kikilias announced the latest update in a social media post on Saturday, writing: "A very important...

The Greek Army has been deployed on the Attiki Odos, the major highway of Athens, in order to help free the thousands of motorists who have been stuck in their cars for hours due to heavy snow. The mission to...

France has suspended thousands of hospital, care home and health center workers after they refused to meet the country's rules requiring COVID-19 vaccinations. Oliver Veran, the Health Minister of France, told French radio that the suspended workers would be unpaid,...

5,895 unvaccinated health workers have been suspended or are in the process of being suspended from working in Greece. The suspensions follow a new law that mandates vaccines among healthcare workers, under penalty of suspension from their workplace. The Suspension...

Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis will be taking a three day trip to the United States to help his daughter, Dafni Mitsotakis, settle in at Yale University in Connecticut. Mitsotakis' trip was announced by the Greek government's spokesman Giannis Oikonomou. "I...

The devastating fires on the island of Evia continued their destructive path on Friday night and onto Saturday.

The Greek island of Corfu kept the Holy Saturday tradition of ''Botides'' alive for yet another year in 2021