During the First World War, Britain's Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) operated from airbases in the northern Aegean, on the islands of Tenedos, Imvros, Limnos and Thasos.

The last was located at Prinos. Between May 1916 and the end of the war, British and Commonwealth pilots used its airfield for combat missions against the Bulgarians who occupied Eastern Macedonia and Thrace from 1916 to 1918 and also the Turks in the Dardanelles.

THE NEWEST book from archaeologist Susan Heuck Allen, Classical Spies: American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece (University of Michigan Press, 2011), representing the latest major look at Greece and Greek affairs during the Second World War, is itself likely to become a classic.

Although the 1940s were a devastating, painful period for Greece, with WWII followed immediately by the country's own Civil War, these were also times of (...)

Each year, 600 million religious and spiritual voyages take place, according to the World Tourism Organisation, a United Nations agency (UNWTO). Some 40 percent of those have European destinations and another large share is made up of pilgrims making their way to the Muslim holy site of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia.

But for all its richness in religious heritage, however, Greece has failed to make a significant mark on an industry whose worldwide turnover exceeds (...)

While debate centres around Greece's need to manage the image crisis plaguing its tourist industry and plans for the establishment of a permanent marketing/PR organisation to handle it, the importance of regional marketing is increasingly coming to the fore.

Efforts to promote Athens and Attica as tourist destinations have apparently stalled, with globally broadcast images of teargassed Athenians turning the city's recently commissioned logo (...)