A map of the night sky created by the ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus was recently discovered at St. Catherine Monastery in Egypt.

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these ... almost all of the Peloponnesian peninsula. Yet the vast majority of these people were not citizens at all ...

Because of its position on a peninsula between two ancient fortresses, Corfu Town has played an important role in Greek history since the eighth century B.C. and continues to be a vivacious center ...

Blazes have hit Kineta, Rafina, and Melissi, all of which can be seen on the below map ... are the worst to hit Greece since fires ravaged the southern Peloponnese peninsula in August 2007.

Homer's Ancient Greek Poem Iliad has inspired a small village in Turkey to install busts of the Trojan war heroes on their ...

Sitting between Asia, Africa and Europe, Crete is located around 200 miles south of mainland Greece. With an area ... On a small peninsula situated on Crete's northeastern coast, Agios Nikolaos ...

Strange, really, since Halkidiki, a large peninsula in northern Greece, is a name often associated ... ensuring we have a clear guide on Google Maps, hats, water and UV parasol.

and Ottoman rule over the centuries but it remained a Greek settlement from antiquity until 1922. Map of Krithia village, at Gallipoli Peninsula (Helles Cape) Source: Wikipedia Krithia was named ...

If you look up Halkidiki on a map, the first thing ... the Aegean Sea from the Greek mainland. And each finger offers something totally different. The westernmost peninsula, Kassandra, is home ...

First I looked at a map: Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey to the south ... AD) is among the largest and ...