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.

LARISSA, Greece (Reuters) -Hundreds of people were ... Thessaly accounts for about 15 percent of the country's annual agricultural output and is a major cotton-producing area.

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.