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The number of national daily newspapers in Greece was 68 in 1950 and it increased to 156 in 1965. [1]Mid through the Greek financial crisis in 2016, on a national level there were 15 daily general interest, 11 daily sports, 4 daily business, 10 weekly and 16 Sunday newspapers in circulation.
19 May: PAOK wins its fourth Greek championship after beating city rivals Aris 1-2 away on the final matchday of the season. [ 9 ] 21 May: A court in Kalamata acquits nine Egyptians on charges of human trafficking and manslaughter relating to the 2023 Messenia migrant boat disaster , citing a lack of jurisdiction due to the incident occurring ...
Argos (/ ˈ ɑːr ɡ ɒ s,-ɡ ə s /; Greek: Άργος; Ancient and Katharevousa: Ἄργος) is a city and former municipality in Argolis, Peloponnese, Greece and is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, and the oldest in Europe. [2]
About 5,000 people gathered in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki Sunday to protest against a new type of identity card to be introduced later this month, police said. The new IDs, which ...
According to Greek law every Sunday of the year is a public holiday. In addition, there are nine mandatory, official public holidays: New Year's Day, 6 January, Clean Monday, 25 March,Orthodox Good Friday, Orthodox Easter Monday, 1 May, Orthodox Whit Monday, 15 August, 28 October, 25 December and 26 December. [1]
With the defeat of Bulgaria in World War I, the city came under Greek control for the second time. In 1920, the city was renamed to honour the King of Greece, Alexander. With the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923, Alexandroupolis became an official part of Greece. The modern city is near the site of ancient Sale, [5] a colony of Samothrace. [6]
The history of the Christian Church in Drama began during the Byzantine period and underwent difficult and troubled times. From the 14th century when the city was captured by the Ottomans until the 20th century with successive foreign occupations, the Greek Orthodox Church in Drama struggled without end, fed by the blood of many faithful ...
The third-largest-city is Patras, with a metropolitan area of approximately 250,000 inhabitants. The table below lists the largest cities in Greece, by population size, using the official census results of 1991, [1] 2001, [2] 2011 [3] and 2021. [4]