Everyone knows Greece: there's Athens ... to the Byzantine Empire with its skinny alleyways. Larissa is surrounded by fertile agricultural land, reflected delectably in the local cuisine.

Thessaly accounts for about 15 percent of the country's annual agricultural ... of Larissa on Friday over concerns of additional flooding from the river Pineios, the third-longest in Greece.

Greece’s agricultural heartland is under water — and recovery ... Christos Xistras, a 48-year-old farmer from a village close to the city of Larissa, described apocalyptic scenes over the phone.