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Some 78 homes were either permanently or temporarily marked an inhabitable by over 60 inspectors of the Climate Crisis and Civil Protection Ministry after the fire that broke out in north-eastern Attica and Athens on Sunday. From Tuesday to Wednesday, inspector groups checked homes and businesses in the East Attica …

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Marble tombstones from the former Jewish cemetery destroyed by the Nazis in Thessaloniki were returned to the Jewish community. At a ceremony on Tuesday, the tombstones were presented to David Nahmias, representative of the Jewish Community of Thessaloniki by local political and archaeological authorities. The tombstones dated to early 20th …

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The Muslims minority in north-eastern Greece is in outrage and has condemned with one voice the destruction of the Ottoman-era Muslim cemetery Horozlu in the village Peteinos in Xanthi prefecture. The local municipality of Avdira wants to turn the field where the cemetery from the 17th century is located into …

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Archaeologists and historians are lamenting the destruction of several 3,000-year-old rock carvings on the Pangaion Hills near Kavala in northern Greece and calling for measures to protect the remaining samples of this ancient art. According to state-run news agency amna, unknown vandals have scraped several carvings depicting human figures, animals, …

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Unknown perpetrators have destroyed the whole load of municipality elections ballots of the far-right party Golden Dawn in the suburb of Kallithea, south Athens. The perpetrators used antiseptic Bedatine that soaked into the 92,000 ballot papers thus destroying them completely. According to local media, the incident took place short before …

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