the Greek musical group C:Real sang only in English before the arrival of lead vocalist Irini Douka in 2002, which led them to focus on Greek language songs?
the Bulgarian villages of Mezek and Matochina, situated near the borders with Greece and Turkey, both have medieval castles (Matochina fortress pictured)?
the Melingoi were a Slavic group that settled in southern Greece during the great invasions of the 7th century, and remained an autonomous community at least until the 14th century?
the hydraulis or water organ of the Dion Archaeological Museum is the first water organ found in Greece, and believed to be the oldest excavated to date anywhere in the world?
between 1955 and 1998, under Article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Code which entitled the Greek government to strip non-ethnic Greeks who left the country of their citizenship, 46,638 members of the officially recognized Muslim minority of Greece lost their citizenship?
a miniature clay figurine of a woman or goddess in the Argos Archaeological Museum in Greece is one of the oldest sculptural representations of humans found in Europe to date?
French protests caused the Russians to award the contract for the Gangut-classbattleship to a Russian firm rather than the German winner of the 1908 international design contest?
Portuguese soldier and explorer Francisco Barreto led an expedition to Monomotapa in search of legendary gold mines, but died along the way from tropical diseases, as did many of his men?
one of the finest khachkar memorial stones is located at Goshavank Monastery in Armenia, the place where the law of Armenia was first codified by Mkhitar Gosh in the late 12th and early 13th century?
Hungarian company Zsolnay(its fountain pictured), known for its manufacture of decorative tiles, became the largest company in Austro-Hungary prior to WWI?
Italian Wall Lizards(pictured) on a Croatian island developed significant behavioral and morphological changes over the course of 36 years, which has been described as "rapid evolution"?
arson was suspected when the last original boô (pictured), a building where a farmer rested when grazing cattle far from a village, burned down in the Netherlands?
Dutchabstract artistJules de Goede described his art by saying "A reflection of the world like it visually appears is not quite enough ... I try to show what is invisible"?