Ancient Greek geography

Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis met with Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens and All Greece on Monday afternoon.

At the meeting at Maximos Mansion, the two leaders discussed issues related to the development of the Greek Orthodox Church assets, particularly promoting the investment involving Church-owned land in Schisto, announced in September 2022.

Curated by architect and museologist Erato Koutsoudaki, the exhibition "Mystery 29_ Elefsina: Raw Museum" looks at the West Attica town's important role in the ancient world, its transformation by migration in modern times and its more recent decline into an industrial wasteland, before its rebirth as the 2023 European Capital of Culture.

Police are investigating after what is believed to be an air rifle was shot towards the political office of New Democracy MP Dimitris Markopoulos in Nikaia, near Piraeus.

No one was injured in the attack which took place shortly before 5 p.m. on Tuesday. 

Photos from the incident posted on social media show a shattered glass window.

The return of the Greek sailors manning the two Greek-flagged tankers held by the Iranian authorities in retaliation for the case of the cargo of the tanker Lana that remains in the Piraeus anchorage has begun, the Panhellenic Union of Merchant Marine Sailors (PENEN) said in a statement. .

The issue is not so much the complaints of parties and organizations from the whole spectrum of the Left to the gatherings of the fire victims of Northern Evia against investors - "carrion scavangers" with their "green" businesses (as they typically state in their announcements and resolutions), but the positions and proposals of the representatives of the Local Government (Region, Municipaliti

Megasthenes, born c. 350 BC, was an ancient Greek historian and diplomat

Russia's state-of-the art frigate Admiral Kasatonov sailed into the port of Piraeus last week along with a number of escort vessels for a working visit, according to a statement by the Russian Embassy on social media. The Russian frigate docked at a Greek port that is controlled by a Chinese state company, just 5 nautical miles from a Greek naval base.

The wife of Sifis Valirakis, a former minister and anti-junta activist during Greece's 1967-74 military dictatorship who was found dead at sea on Sunday night, has not ruled out possible manslaughter.

The curfew in West Attica's Elefsina, Mandra and Aspropyrgos has been extended and will start at 6 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. as of Friday, Deputy Civil Protection Minister Nikos Hardalias said on Thursday, announcing measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus in three of the area's five municipalities.

Workers at a nursery in Marathon, eastern Attica, haul a sack of dead roses to a bonfire pit, on Thursday. With flower shops closed during the coronavirus lockdown, many Greek growers are having to destroy their crops. [Iannis Liakos/Intime News]