cross-referenced news and research resources about
Greek municipalities (cities, towns and villages)
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updated Thu. March 29, 2018
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Aljazeera.com
March 29, 2018
Advertisement removed after Greeks slam British newspaper for 'offensive' financial and refugee-crisis themed trip. ... "Explore the financial crisis in microcosm through one Athens suburb and the charities and municipalities supporting people through austerity," the advertisement said of the trip, organisedÃÂ ...
Economic Times
March 29, 2018
The Greek Islands are one of the most popular honeymoon destinations in the world. There are a few places more romantic than Santorini with its white villages perched precariously on cliffs overlooking the sea. Angelina Jolie reportedly fell head over heels in love with Santorini during the filming of TombÃÂ ...
Neos Kosmos
March 29, 2018
Adelaide's main square turned Greek last weekend hosting the largest Greek Festival in South Australia, known as Glendi, attracting close to 40,000 people in Victoria Square in the heart of the city. “It was a huge success and Victoria Square proved an ideal location to host the Glendi with overwhelminglyÃÂ ...
Balkan Insight
March 28, 2018
Themis Kalpakidis, a farmer from the small seaside town of Kavala in northeast Greece, and Agim Bendo, owner of a small plum orchard in the village of Turan in eastern Albania, share a similar agenda – even though they live some 420 kilometres apart and do not know each other. Both of them, alongsideÃÂ ...
The SandPaper
March 28, 2018
At the end of May, she'll set out for a two-week assignment at a refugee camp in Lesvos, Greece, working with displaced people from around that region. “It's an amazing opportunity,” said Hartney of Surf City, a 2015 Southern Regional graduate who has worked as a borough lifeguard for five years.
Greek Reporter
March 27, 2018
Organizers say that Igoumenitsa took home the honor for its exemplary work in communicating the benefits of sustainable mobility to residents, including those who live in nearby small towns. Residents could avail of free transfer by bus at selected times, take part in cycling events held along the city'sÃÂ ...
Greek Reporter
March 26, 2018
In Corinth, a Peloponnese city of about 38,000 people west of Athens, the emphasis was on the youth, with many students and schoolchildren taking ... 'Colocotroni' by Green) approached from Patras in the west and saw small Ottoman detachments raiding now-abandoned villages on the plain of Corinth.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
March 20, 2018
Mission Recovery and Hope will hold its first meeting at 6 p.m. April 25 in conference room A at Greece Town Hall, 1 Vince Tofany Blvd. The event also is open to people who don't live in Greece. Subsequent meetings are scheduled for May 30, June 27, July 31, Aug. 29, Sept. 26, Oct. 31, Nov. 20 and Dec.
VentureBeat
March 16, 2018
Greece has formally named Trikala, a central, medium-sized Greek city, to be the country's first municipality with 5G wireless technology. ... Trikala was identified early on as a leading candidate for 5G, as it has previously piloted new technologies such as self-driving vehicles ahead of other Greek cities.
Aljazeera.com
March 12, 2018
Athens, Greece - Greek police raided three anarchist squats in the capital and arrested at least 12 people, local media reported on Monday. Police officers carried out the evacuations of Gare and Zaimi, a pair of squats in the Exarchia district of Athens, and another in Koukaki, another nearby neighbourhoodÃÂ ...
Sputnik International
March 11, 2018
The latest riots in the Greek city of Thessaloniki started in the wake of January protests when right-wing demonstrators burned down anarchists' premises ... Greek police have resorted to using tear gas and stun grenades against anarchists; about 2,000 demonstrators from across the Balkans took to theÃÂ ...
The Guardian
March 11, 2018
Last week a court in the Turkish border town of Edirne, where the two are being held in a high-security prison, rejected a plea for their release pending further investigation. In rallies in Orestiada, the Greek town closest to the border, and Thessaloniki, the country's northern capital, protesters called for theÃÂ ...
WHEC News
December 31, 1999
Town of Greece creating a safe space for online purchases. February 28, 2018 12:23 PM. The Town of Greece is taking steps to better protect people buying or selling things online. The town is incorporating a safe place. Advertisement – Content Continues Below. A sign will be put up on the town hall campus this week.
13WHAM-TV
December 31, 1999
Greece Town Supervisor Bill Reilich has announced that the Town is creating signs for Town Parks that will provide contact and location information in the event of an ... It features the Town of Greece seal and reads “In The Event Of An Emergency Call 911 – Your Location Is Badgerow Park South 1120 Latta Road”.
Kansas City Star
February 21, 2018
Macedonian authorities have begun replacing road signs on the country's main highway named by the previous government after the ancient warrior king Alexander the Great, in a goodwill gesture toward neighboring Greece. Gajur Kadriu, head of Macedonia's road maintenance company, said the first ofÃÂ ...
TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press
February 21, 2018
The late Spiro Pina made Olympic history in 1994 when he became the first man to compete in luge for Greece. Pina, a native of St. Paul and a dual citizen of Greece and the U.S., returned to the Winter Olympics four years later, carrying the flag for Greece in Nagano, Japan. He placed 24th both years.
Kansas City Star
February 21, 2018
Greek lawmakers were voting early Thursday, following an 18-hour debate, on whether to investigate 10 senior politicians, including two former prime ministers, over allegations they were involved in a pharmaceutical bribery scandal. The allegations follow a judicial investigation into bribes SwissÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
February 21, 2018
The Town of Greece can help with this litter issue by turning up the heat on the managers of both the plaza property and the empty lot to ensure that they're adhering to town code and keeping property clean. If the property owners do not respond to a citation within the required time, the town shouldn'tÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
February 20, 2018
The Latest on migrant issues in Europe (all times local):. 4:15 p.m.. A Greek court in the northern city of Thessaloniki has convicted a Palestinian man of running a major migrant-smuggling ring and sentenced him to 13 years in prison. Judges ruled Tuesday that 29-year-old Jamal Owda was active duringÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
February 20, 2018
Often cleanup falls to the property owners, like Robert and Ann Dobson, who have lived in their home on Dobson Road in Greece for more than 50 years. The street is named after .... The owners were cited for the trash on the lot in late January, according to the town of Greece. Greece town Supervisor BillÃÂ ...
Voice of America
February 19, 2018
For a few hours every year, residents and visitors of this pretty Greek seaside town have a license to lose their civility. They have what's known as a “flour war” — participants pelt each other with bags of dyed flour along the coastal road lining Galaxidi's old harbor. It's an explosion of color that takes placeÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
February 18, 2018
He was arraigned in Greece Town Court and remanded to the Monroe County Jail in lieu of $200,000 cash bail or $400,000 bond. Police allege Gibbs possessed and detonated a pipe bomb in his backyard with a minor child present at the time of the detonation. "This is not a domestic violence-relatedÃÂ ...
The News-Press
February 17, 2018
We all know gyros and feta, but this weekend's Greek Fest Fort Myers is a chance to expand your Greek-eating horizons. ... Consider this your Greek Fest primer, your guide to the most delicious and interesting things to eat this weekend. Opa! ... Move over baklava, there's a new flaky Greek dessert in town.
Kansas City Star
February 17, 2018
Ratings agency Fitch has upgraded Greece's sovereign credit status as the country heads toward an end to eight years of international bailout programs. The agency announced late Friday that it had raised the country's rating from B- to B with a positive outlook, citing Greece's improved adoption of reformsÃÂ ...
Seattle Times
February 17, 2018
The recent announcement by President Donald Trump for an annual military parade immediately recalled my memories of Greece. ... In the village where I grew up, I witnessed a small convoy of soldiers riding into town one day to arrest a man, and later tosshis family's furniture into the street.
The Sun
February 17, 2018
So we seized the day and shunned the most popular destinations to stay at the stunning Carpe Diem hotel, nestled beneath the medieval village of ... Santorini is a dormant volcano and Oia is the manifestation of all we had imagined from a town on a Greek island hillside, with beautiful white-washedÃÂ ...
The Pappas Post
February 17, 2018
Since visiting papou's village in Greece was out of the question in the middle of a school year and a weekend trip to Greece would be impossible, Danialle planned the next best thing— a visit to Ellis Island where Spiros' grandfather Peter Karmanos Sr. arrived as an immigrant almost a century ago.
Greek Reporter
February 16, 2018
Aerial footage has emerged of an abandoned village in Crete which refuses to be submerged under an artificial water reservoir. The controversial Aposelemi dam project, which should solve a water-supply problem in Heraklion and other cities on the island, requires that the medieval village of Sfendyli beÃÂ ...
Ahval
February 15, 2018
The dispute is one of a series of issues related to demilitarisation, delimitation and the sovereignty rights of Aegean Sea islands and islets between Turkey and Greece dating back decades. In late January 1996, the two NATO countries almost went to war over Kardak/Imia, between the Turkish coastal townÃÂ ...
13WHAM-TV
February 5, 2018
Greece, N.Y. (WHAM) - New shut-off valves, pipes and a berm structure have been installed in high-risk flood areas in the Town of Greece to help minimize flood damage in the future. "It'll change your lifestyle real quick," said Bill Joyce, who dealt the wrath of Lake Ontario's floodwaters last year on Edgemere Drive. He andÃÂ ...
Al Jazeera America
February 5, 2018
Since 1976, more than 4,000 inhabitants of five different villages that sat on coal reserves have been internally displaced. Half-demolished houses, a few hungry stray dogs, dilapidated churches: That's what's left of the village of Mavropigi, near Ptolemaida, today. In 2010 the first excavation took place justÃÂ ...
Greek Reporter
January 23, 2018
Samarina is the most famous of the Aromanian villages of the Pindus, where locals are proud of their heritage and continuously honor their traditions. On Aug. 15, Samarina celebrates the Dormition of the Virgin, an event that sees Samarinans from different parts of the world returning to the village in orderÃÂ ...
Greek Reporter
January 8, 2018
Olga (Gatzoyiannis) Bartzokis, who in 1948 led her brother and two sisters on a night escape down a mine-laden mountainside from her Communist guerrilla-held village during the Greek Civil War, passed away at the age of 90. Known for her dedication to her four children, two of whom became doctorsÃÂ ...
Kansas City Star
January 8, 2018
Greece's prime minister says a full return to markets in 2018 remains an "important target," with the country's bailout funding formally ending in August. At a Cabinet meeting Monday, Alexis Tsipras cited a steady drop in public borrowing rates as the yield on 10-year bonds remain under 4 percent, touchingÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 8, 2018
8 (Xinhua) -- Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told a cabinet meeting in Athens on Monday that there was a window of opportunity for the solution in 2018 to the decades-old name dispute with ... Zaev spent the New Year holidays in the northern Greece city port of Thessaloniki invited by the local Mayor.
Kansas City Star
January 8, 2018
An Athens administrative court has accepted the Greek government's appeal to temporarily suspend the granting of asylum to one of eight Turkish officers who fled to Greece on a military helicopter after the July 2016 failed coup in Turkey. The court granted the government's appeal Monday on grounds ofÃÂ ...
Xinhua
January 7, 2018
ATHENS, Jan. 7 (Xinhua) -- Greek authorities were awaiting on Sunday for a formal briefing from U.S. authorities to launch the procedures for the repatriation of the Greek antiquities seized from a billionaire's home and office in New York city, Greece's Culture Ministry said in a press statement. According toÃÂ ...
News & Observer
January 6, 2018
A member of the St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Cathedral's epiphany dive committee, Emmanuel Gombos, says paramedics were nearby. ... In Mexico City, aid workers brought toys and other gifts to brighten the Epiphany holiday for children living in dozens of makeshift tent camps more than three monthsÃÂ ...
Daily Sabah
January 5, 2018
More than 30 immigrant houses have come under attack since December 25 in a port Greek city near Athens, a rights group reported as xenophobic attacks continue to spike in areas with a large immigrant population. The Movement Against Racism and the Fascist Threat (KEERFA) said Thursday that theÃÂ ...
Express.co.uk
January 1, 2018
As Greece prepares to stand on its feet again after eight years of turmoil a leading academic says that although the worst is over, the chance of a triple-dip recession remains real. Dr Ioannis Oikonomou, associate professor in finance at Henley Business School who has taught many subjects to JP Morgan,ÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 29, 2017
By the hundreds, Monroe County residents lined up early at town halls across the community to prepay their 2018 town/county property taxes. By 8:30 a.m., the line at Ogden Town Hall was out the door. Around 11 a.m., a raucous cheer went up in Greece Town Hall as officials there called "number 500" toÃÂ ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 31, 1999
Everything in the home is brand new, from a new kitchen to a new bathroom, Salafia said. There's a sliding glass door to private backyard that backs up to the new Greece town water park. The kitchen has a built-in wine rack, new dishwasher, and new built-in microwave. Laminate flooring in the kitchen andÃÂ ...
Middle East Eye
December 9, 2017
Greece has persuaded Turkey to accept migrant returns from the mainland in order to reduce critical overcrowding in its refugee camps, a report said on ... During his visit – the first visit of a Turkish president to Greece in 65 years – Erdogan told local Turks in the Greek city of Komotini that solidarity betweenÃÂ ...
The New Yorker
December 9, 2017
Two years ago, the Greek island of Lesvos was often in the news, as thousands of refugees arrived on its shores—nearly daily—in small rubber boats. They came from Turkey, just a ... After flying into Mytilene, the island's largest town, I drove north into the rolling hills that abut the city. After twenty minutes, IÂ ...
Kansas City Star
December 9, 2017
The prime ministers of Greece, Bulgaria and Romania have pledged support for Serbia's membership in the European Union, saying it would boost stability in the Balkans. Officials agreed at a meeting Saturday in Belgrade with Serbia's president to improve trade, energy and transportation links between ...
ABC News
December 8, 2017
A policeman with a dog inspects outside Kirmahalle Cammi before the visit of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the northeastern Greek town of Komotini, Friday, Dec. 8, 2017. Erdogan will meet the members of Greece's Muslim minority as the leaders of Greece and Turkey publicly aired their ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
December 6, 2017
The second suspect has not been arrested. Thomas was arraigned on the assault charges in Greece Town Court and was returned to the Monroe County Jail, where she is being held on $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bond. More: Greece police officer struck by car at mall. TRACYS@Gannett.com. This story ...
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
November 29, 2017
9, just weeks before his vision would become a reality with the opening of Greece's first craft brewery. ... And Wood Kettle Brewing, located at the corner of Manitou and Latta roads in North Greece, will open in the next few weeks. .... They first presented their vision to the Greece town board in May 2016.
Telegraph.co.uk
November 29, 2017
This lodge-like three-star unit of stone cottages offers a traditional Greek village experience at affordable rates plus homemade food, plenty of parking space and ... This winter retreat is about half a mile's walk along the main road to the town of Dimitsana, with easy access to the open-air Water Power Museum complete with ...
Greek Reporter
November 29, 2017
It seems hardly surprising that after the new Greek King, Otto arrived in Nafplion in 1833, only one year later both he and state government transferred to Athens along with the title of capital city. To understand how Hermoupolis on the island of Syros was established as the main port in Greece in the 1800's, ...
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