Sitting at the café of the Technopolis cultural center in downtown Athens, cigarillo in hand, Antonis Kafetzopoulos, one of Greece's best-known actors, gives a quick digested history of Greece's ...

The gold and silver mines of ancient Greece produced the metals needed to forge empires and lay the foundations of Western ...

Its failure to make a $1.73 billion payment to the International Monetary Fund by June 30 makes Greece the first developed country in history to default to the IMF. It could also mark the beginning of ...

A view of the Greek island Hydra. James Burke / Time Life Pictures / Getty Images While it seems tiny and low-key, overachieving Hydra holds a privileged place in Greek history. The fate of Hydriots ...

Most Germans know little about the war crimes committed by the Nazis in Greece during World War II. A memorial in Münster has been set up to remember the Greek victims who were deported and killed.

In Greece, the landscape is inseparable from history. From ancient ruins to more recent residences, each site seems to bear the memory of a rich and sometimes stormy past.

The head of the North Macedonian team on the joint commission with Greece told BIRN its job is not to alter historical facts – but to present them differently, emphasizing what brings both peoples ...

Arguments over statues and the teaching of history may be gripping the UK and US – but they are nothing new to North Macedonia, where they are being settled through diplomacy. This post is also ...