The Australian Federal Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities & the Arts Mr Paul Fletcher …
Greek Culture
Contemporary Greek culture and traditions are very rich and diverse, reflecting Greece’s location at the crossing point where the West meets the East and the country’s great and turbulent history.
Few know that a village in the Aegean island of Lesvos island holds a festival…
The operation and engineering of the famous Macedonian Sarissa, an ancient Greek long spear, was…
It’s Sunday, April 27, 1941. A military procession, consisting of two motorcycles, a Kubelwagen and…
Perhaps the two most known “All-Fathers” are Zeus and Odin, so of course the big…
Peggy Stathakopoulou is a famous Greek actress. She graduated from the Drama School of the…
The current situation and the exact population of the Greek Community of Skopje is not…
An Egyptian archaeological mission working at the site of Tell Al-Farma in the North Sinai…
A 1,800-year-old marble bathtub that was almost sold by smugglers has been delivered to the…
Not many would think that the Ancient Greek poet Homer made first mention of the…
In order to understand the dynamics of the relations between Greece and Turkey, we must…
Greek Easter has been associated with the cracking of eggs, tsoureki and of course spit…
Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the…
Several Greek islands have their ways of celebrating. Usually, a traditional mass is held on…
April 24, 1479 B.C.E, the Trojans learned they should beware of Greeks bearing gifts, especially…
April 24th is the day the world commemorates the Armenian Genocide committed by Turks in…
Greek City Times is proud to present a weekly historical snapshot from the archives of…
Good Friday and the night of Holy Saturday are one of the most important and…
Lamb, tsoureki and red eggs has become synonymous with Greek Easter. But it may seem…
The game of cracking red eggs, or “tsougrisma” as the Greeks call it, symbolises the breaking open of the tomb and Jesus Christ’s resurrection from the dead. The custom takes place after the resurrection on Easter Saturday at midnight or the following day during Paschal feasts.