Ioannina

A lecture sponsored by the Greek Community of Melbourne on June 20 shed new light on life in Epirus, Greece during the last years of Ottoman rule in the region. The presentation, which was part of a series of Greek...

The Central Board of Jewish Communities in Greece on Monday congratulated Dr. Moses Elisaf on his election as mayor of the city of Ioannina, in northwestern Greece. "For the Greek Jewry," the board's announcement said, "the success of Moses Elisaf signals...

A Jewish candidate has been elected on Sunday mayor of Ioannina, the main city in the region of Epirus, making him the first Greek-Jewish mayor in the country. Running as an independent Moisis Elisaf won 50.3 percent of the vote...

A Greek appeals court on Monday commuted a hospital cleaner's eight-year prison sentence to a three-year suspended sentence. She had originally been given the draconian eight-year penalty for forging her educational record in order to obtain her job. The mother of...

A cleaner from the Greek city of Ioannina has been convicted and sentenced to eight years imprisonment for forging her primary school diploma in order to be hired at the city hospital, local media reported on Thursday. There is still no...

A timelapse video captured the city of Ioannina in northwestern Greece gradually being blanketed by a thick layer of fog on Monday. The city and Lake Pamvotis, the largest lake in Epirus, are seen disappearing under the radiational fog. This type...

There is a small sign on the old Ioannina - Patras national highway in Terovo, that points to Louros Springs. From there, only five minutes away, there is a place that brings to mind the exotic location where the...

Prosecutors from Ioannina, capital of the Greek region of Epirus which neighbors Albania, sent the case file of Konstantinos Katsifas' death to the Athens public prosecutor's office on Tuesday as part of the investigation into the circumstances under which...

Greeks have been fascinated for decades over the legend that Ali Pasha, an Ottoman ruler, has left an enormous treasure hidden somewhere in Greece. Search parties, have so far, , failed to uncover the hidden riches, but some still persist...

Zagorohoria, Metsovo, Tzoumerka, Drakolimni, Parga, Sivota, Bella Vraka, Acherontas estuary, Konitsa. Places of fantastic natural beauty, some of them so diverse that Epirus could be called the region of a thousand faces. Epirus is more beautiful that Scotland or France's...