ATHENS, Greece – "What's in a name?" asks Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. "That which we call a rose, by any other word would smell as sweet." Not in the ethnically jumbled Balkans region of ...

Few places in the world can match the degree of overlap between folk and popular musics that persists in Greece. In the region of Epirus, in the northwest, the tart clarinet sound of the local ...

In northern Greece, shop windows show off packets of juicy green peppers, bottles of local red wine and the classic aniseed-flavoured aperitif ouzo, all of them made in Greece but also labelled ...

As lawmakers in Athens are poised to approve a landmark name deal between Greece and Macedonia, there is relief in many European capitals that a 27-year diplomatic dispute is nearing its end. "How can ...