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A major wildfire raged out of control in the northern suburbs of Athens on Monday, triggering evacuations of several areas as swirling winds hampered the efforts of hundreds of firefighters and ...
Fire Service spokesman Ioannis Artopios said 12 villages were ordered to be evacuated
In a forecast published days before the heatwave, the National Bank of Greece said tourism is up 24 per cent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same period a year earlier.
The series of wildfires started with two large forest fires on August 11, 2024, at 03:00 P.M., 35 km north of Athens, near Varnavas. [2] Some of the fires in this series had flames were higher than 25 meters (80 feet). [3]
On the afternoon of 11 August 2024, a wildfire fire hit the northeastern Attica region of Greece. The fire broke out in the area of Varnavas, northeast of Athens, at 3:02 PM, according to Fire Colonel Vassileios Vathrakogiannis, the Fire Service spokesman and quickly spread due to strong winds. The flames caused the evacuation of many ...
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ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities on the Greek island of Crete have ordered the temporary closure of mountain gorges popular with hikers after an earthquake triggered a rockslide and seriously ...
The living descendants of Greece's last king, Constantine II, regain Greek citizenship under the surname De Grèce ("of Greece" in French) after being stripped of the status by the Greek government in 1994. [42] 30 December – One person is killed in a fire at a hotel in Kalambaka. [43]