A 300-year-old mulberry tree, a symbol of the Greek War of Independence and a candidate for protected status, has been ...

Prologue For about a millennium the Mongol Turks have been targeting the Greeks. The Mongol Turks first appeared in the neighborhood of the Greek medieval ...

The mass-produced Liberty ships that played a significant role in WWII eventually helped Greece become the world's leading ...

Giorgos Roubanis, Greece’s oldest living Olympic medalist, passed away Tuesday at the age of 95. He won bronze in the pole vault at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, earning Greece’s first post-war Olympic ...

Step back in time to July 1944, when the Germans retreated from Siena, Italy, without a fight! This medieval city could have ...

The Vital de Oliveira was a civilian ship, built in 1910 and outfitted as an auxiliary naval craft when Brazil entered World War II on the side of the Allies. It was transporting supplies ...

Ancient Greece produced the earliest records of democracy, western philosophy - and, it turns out, lead pollution. Researchers studying sediment cores recovered from mainland Greece and the Aegean ...

By midday on January 31, 1996, all military forces and flags had been withdrawn ... the Dodecanese island complex. After World War II, it was ceded to Greece under the 1947 Treaty of Paris ...

BLOOMINGTON — The remains of one of Bloomington's own who died in Italy during World War II have been identified after 80 long years. He will be buried in Richmond, Virginia, this coming April.

ATHENS, Greece — Increased volcanic activity in Greece’s famed tourist hotspot of Santorini has prompted the country’s civil protection minister to call a meeting with local and disaster ...

The strategy for bolstering the Greek flag to make it appealing to Greek shipowners was described by the chairman of the Greek Shipping Cooperation Committee in London, Charalambos Fafalios. At the ...

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