Rhodope

Greek firefighting forces are still battling a wildfire that has been burning for sixteen consecutive days at Mount Papikio in Rhodope of Northern Greece, the Hellenic Fire Service said on Monday. Three hundred and twenty firefighters with thirty-one fire engines...

Several decades ago, when burning wood was the only means of keeping one's home warm, camels were not an uncommon sight in rural Greece.

Shocking images emerged of thousands of dead fish washed up along the shores of several bodies of water in Rhodope, a region in Western Thrace, over the weekend. Veterinary officials from Eastern Macedonia and Thrace located the dead fish in...

Once upon a time, several decades ago, when burning wood was the only means of keeping one's home warm, load-carrying camels were not an uncommon sight in rural Greece. Most of the camels in Greece were found in Thrace, with...

The harsh weather conditions of the past 24 hours in Greece have left one man dead, power outages and traffic problems in many areas. On Thursday afternoon a 76-year-old man in Iasmos in the Rhodope region was killed when heavy...

A shocking report was recently published by the newspaper "Foni tis Rodopis", the report details that a member of a monastery sexually abused a five-year-old boy in Rhodope. A court in Rhodope, northern Greece, is to make a decree about the alleged abuse of the 5-year-old...

Farmers protesting against planned pension system reforms on Wednesday carried out a brief half-hour blockade of the customs office in Promahonas, at the border crossing from northern Greece into Bulgaria Tractor convoys had earlier blocked roads at Koboti in Arta...

There have been previous concerns from child protection groups about the rising number of children working illegally in Greece. At the same time, Eurostat was reporting that 11.4 percent of the student population had dropped out of school in 2010. As...