The Plaka Bridge, over Arachthos River, was the largest stone one-arch bridge in Greece and…
Tag: Epirus
Images left behind following the Elpis snowstorm have captured imaginations all across Greece, and Ioannina…
Kapesovo, a green, picturesque, stone village of just 51 residents, that belongs to the Municipality of Zagori, is known not just for its beauty but for another, very unique reason; almost all its residents have ancient Greek names.
An ambulance belonging to a private clinic in Athens was transporting about 320 kilos of…
Surrounded by lovely alpine scenery as it is in the heart of the Pindos mountain…
The Dance of Zalongo, the mass suicide of Souliote women and children, is one of…
During the Greco-Italian War of World War II, the capital of Northern Epirus in Southern…
A 4.3 magnitude earthquake occurred recently in Preveza, western Greece. According to the Geodynamic Seismological…
On December 1, as on the first day of every month, people flocked in droves to the wish-granting Greek Orthodox church ‘Ayin Biri Kilisesi’ in Constantinople to make wishes, in the hope that they will come true.
The Greek embassy in Tirana has lodged a demarche of strong protest, which demands an…
On this day in 1950, Mehmet Esat Bülkat, also known as Mehmed Esad Pasha, the…
Theodoros Grivas (1797 – October 24, 1862) From Preveza in Epirus, he was a prominent…
Set within mountain ranges and a lush forest of cedar and fir trees you will…
The Court of First Instance of Argyrokastro (Αργυρόκαστρο, Albanian: Gjirokastër) rejected the request of Prosecutor…
On October 28, 2018, Konstantinos Katsifas, a member of the Greek national minority in Northern…
Kapesovo, a green, picturesque, stone village of just 51 residents, that belongs to the Municipality of Zagori, is known not just for its beauty but for another, very unique reason; almost all its residents have ancient Greek names.
Konstantinos Smolenskis (1843 – September 27, 1915) was born into a family from Moschopoli in…
Dionysios Philosophos (1541 – September 11, 1611), born in Paramythia, Thesprotia, Epirus, but with roots…
Olga Daska passed away at the age of 111 in Polydroso, Thesprotia, Epirus, spreading grief…
Georgios Zalokostas (1805 – September 3, 1858) from the village of Syrrako in Epirus, was…