The city of Xanthi didn’t exist during ancient times. However during the Byzantine Empire, there was a city with the name Xanthia which was built on the hill north west of the present city of Xanthi. The name Xanthia first appears in 879 a...

The city of Xanthi didn’t exist during ancient times. However during the Byzantine Empire, there was a city with the name Xanthia which was built on the hill north west of the present city of Xanthi. The name Xanthia first appears in 879 a...

Built in the decade of 1890 - 1900, by the tobacco broker Nicholas Adamidis. Architectural description: A two-storey building, with stonework ,and plenty of architectural and decorative elements,on the borderline between neoclassical and e...

Pamouktsoglou Mansion At Abdera, in the modern estate, visitors can see buildings from the period of the Ottoman rule. There are several scattered architectural finery which manage to survive, such as the Pamouktsoglou Mansion as shown. ...

Today, there are obvious identified traces in one of the five ancient, port structures. In the southwestern ancient port of the city of Abdera, the eastern breakwater is mainly preserved. The breakwater automatically protects the port, from...

Aisled basilica with cemetery Outside the precincts of the Byzantine settlement, as was customary, the cemetery was sprawled. Outside of the Polystylon, and north from it, but inside the archaeological site of ancient Abdera an aisled basi...

During our time, and on a trip back to the mythical ages, the history of the region emerges while reading again a Homeric verse: Odysseus, after the capture of Troy and his wanderings in the unknown and rich places of Asia Minor, during his...

Ismaros ancient city According to the Homeric tradition, the region was inhabited by the Thracian tribes of Kikones, which had their headquarters in the city Ismaros or Ismara, a city which was located on the slopes of the homonymous mount...