Lesbos

The policy of rapprochement with Turkey had helped decrease illegal migration flows, Greece's Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has said from Lesvos. “Greece is one of the few countries, if not the only one, which has effectively handled the problem of...

Big and beautiful Lesbos, or Lesvos, is the third largest Greek island after Crete and Evia, and the birthplace of the ancient Greek poet Sappho. It boasts stunning natural landscapes, including beautiful beaches, lush green mountains, and picturesque villages. It's big...

Today is the 564th anniversary of the Martyrs of Lesbos, Saints Raphael, Nicholas, and Irene, who were killed by the Turks on Bright Tuesday on April 9, 1463. This was ten years after the fall of Constantinople. According to a...

Modern English, and indeed many languages, borrow a plethora of words from ancient Greek. One particularly interesting word is "lesbian", today used to describe a homosexual woman who is attracted to other women, but the root of the word...

Four children were among five people who died in two separate migrant boat sinkings off the islands of Lesvos and Samos in Greece on Monday. The coast guard said four people died and 18 were rescued after a boat carrying...

Summer festivities on the Greek island of Lesbos began in an upbeat fashion with the performance of the syrtaki on sailing boats in the waters off the island's capital, Mytilene. The music and accompanying dance popularized by the 1964 film...

A Roman aqueduct in the area of Moria on Lesvos will be restored, the Ministry of Culture announced on Tuesday.

Greece's Museum of Natural History of the Petrified Forest of Lesvos announced recently a major discovery on the beautiful island of the eastern Aegean Sea. The Museum said that they discovered a massive and almost completely intact fossilized tree, which...

The Greek Police announced on Friday night that they suspended three border guards and one police officer on the island of Lesvos, following the publication of a video, which showed them beating helpless refugees and migrants on the Eastern...

A total of 800 migrants and refugees who had been left without shelter after the fires that destroyed the Moria camp on Lesvos last week, were resettled at a new facility by Monday evening. The Greek Army built a temporary...