Sitting between Asia, Africa and Europe, Crete is located around 200 miles south of mainland Greece. With an area ... At night, the prefecture's cities (Chania in particular) come to life as ...

Altogether there were over 1500 city-states in the Greek world, but some of these would barely qualify as towns in modern terms. Even Athens, by far the largest of all city-states, only contained ...

This period is known by historians as the Archaic period of Greek history. During this time many of the cities in Greece were ruled by a king-like figure. Around 480BC Greece entered a golden age ...