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Who Are the Greek People? Ancient Roots and the Question of Continuity
The question "Are modern Greeks the same people as the ancient Greeks?" has been asked — and answered differently — by Byzantine theologians, Ottoman administrators, 19th-century European Romantics, German philologists, Greek nationalists, and modern...
Why Is Greece Called Greece? The Story Behind the Name
If you ask a Greek person what they call their country, they will say Hellas (Ελλάς or Ελλάδα). They call themselves Hellenes (Έλληνες). The Greek language is Helleniki. Greece, in the eyes of the Greeks, has always been and remains Hellas. So where...
Armenia: The Oldest Christian Country in the World Is Also One of the Most Underrated in Europe
Armenia adopted Christianity as its state religion in 301 AD — over a decade before the Roman Empire. That fact is a useful introduction to what kind of country this is: ancient in a way that isn't metaphorical, shaped by history with a weight that's...
Socotra: A real mysterious island
If someone showed you a picture of Socotra Island without telling you where it was, you would probably think it was from a movie set. The trees look like enormous upside-down mushrooms, and some of them even bleed dark red sap if you cut them. An...
Cyprus: 9 Reasons You Should Actually Go
Cyprus is the third-largest island in the Mediterranean, located at its eastern end — closer to Beirut than to Athens, closer to Turkey than to Italy, but very much a European Union country with European standards of infrastructure, food, and safe...
Italy's Hidden Side: 8 Places Most Tourists Never Find
Italy has a well-worn tourist trail: Rome, Venice, Florence, the Amalfi Coast, Cinque Terre. They're famous for a reason, and they're worth seeing. But Italy is a country of 20 regions and thousands of years of layered history. What follows are ei...