OSINT of Greece
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Entry #47 OSINT World Series
Open Data Portals
data.gov.gr – Greek Open Data Portal - The central government portal for Greece.
Hellenic Statistical Authority (ELSTAT) - Offers statistical data on Greece’s population, economy, and social indicators, supporting demographic research and economic analysis.
Bank of Greece Open Data - Financial and economic datasets (monetary stats, banking indicators)
CERTH Open Data Hub (Transport & Mobility) - Focus: traffic, mobility, smart transport in Greece
SoDaNet is the National Research Infrastructure of Greece for the Social Sciences.
Attica OpenData Portal - Regional open data catalog for Attica, Greece, providing datasets spanning various societal and administrative topics as per regional government initiatives.
Open Data Corfu - Open data portal managed by the Municipality of Corfu.
Open data portal for the municipality of Chalandri, Greece.
OPeNDAP Hyrax catalog hosted by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) Ocean Physics group, exposing thematic collections such as BATHYMETRY, METEO, and OCEAN for remote scientific data access via the DAP protocol.
Unipi MSc Climate ICT - Provides a rich set of applications, practical examples, and geospatial data, offering valuable material for researchers, students, and professionals who wish to leverage the capabilities of GIS in the study of climate change and its impacts.
Centralized GIS and open data portal of the Municipality of Thessaloniki, offering access to approximately 90 open datasets.
SDI Thessaloniki Geonetwork is a spatial data catalog, managed by the municipality or urban authority of Thessaloniki.
A catalog of geospatial risk data in order to strengthen the Resilience of Municipality of Thessaloniki.
Open Data portal of the City of Trikala covering Governance, Finance, City Planning, Transportation, Environment, Social Care, Education.
Public Sources 2024 project of SA WEST - It contains a collection of reliable links to ministries, government institutions, and local media sources in Greece.
The Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (Obi) - The Hellenic Industrial Property Organization is the only legally qualified institution for the protection of inventions and industrial designs. It also provides technological information from worldwide patent databases. You can search the Greek national patent register by the owner, inventor, patent number, keyword and other criteria.
Greece in Numbers is a hub for publicly available data on Greece’s economy and society.
Business Registries and Data
GEMI – General Commercial Registry (Γ.Ε.ΜΗ.) - The official company registry of Greece. Guide
The Open Data platform of the Greek General Commercial Registry (GEMI – Γ.Ε.ΜΗ.) - Structured company data via API.
AADE (Tax Authority) – VAT Verification
e-Justice Business Registers - EU portal linking national company registers.
search.et.gr - Greece Official Gazette search (legal publications about companies).
The Hellenic Capital Market Commission (Hcmc) - The Hellenic Capital Commission provides a list of companies.
Open Sanctions - Contains 2,620 entities connected with Greece. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.
The administrative penalties imposed by the Bank of Greece in recent years.
People Search
11888 - This website provides current Greek phone numbers, addresses, and maps of private individuals, government institutions, and businesses.
Online E-Auction Service - Asset auctions of indebted legal entities and individuals. You can search the debtors by name.
INDEPENDENT AUTHORITY FOR PUBLIC REVENUE (AADE) - A list of debtors with debts in excess of € 150,000. The list is not updated automatically, not very often and is available in Greek only.
Citizen Service Centers (KEP) - Greece's network of one-stop public service centres: Help citizens submit applications and paperwork to various government agencies without having to visit each one separately; Issue certificates (birth, marriage, residence, etc.)
(Guide Video) Greek Genealogy #5.1: Finding BIrth Information in Greece
Hellenic Genealogy Geek - This is a companion to the Facebook Group "Hellenic Genealogy Geek" where you can post your Greek genealogy family queries and other questions.
Spartan Roots - Genealogy research specializing in the region of Sparta, Greece. Research guidance and tutorials.
Open Sanctions - Contains 2,620 entities connected with Greece. This may include sanctioned entities, politically-exposed persons (PEPs), and their close associates, or entities involved in criminal activity.
Profiles of Members of the Hellenic Parliament, including their political affiliations.
Land, Maps and Geospetial Data
Hellenic Cadastre (Ελληνικό Κτηματολόγιο) - It holds highly valuable geospatial and property data.
View the map & parcel boundaries At maps.ktimatologio.gr you can freely:
Browse the cadastral map
See parcel shapes and KAEK numbers
View building regulations
Athens Geoportal - A catalog of geospatial data published by the Municipality of Athens. Users can browse, aggregate, style, and share maps. Data is available in standard formats, and users can upload and manage geospatial data and associated documents.
The geodata.gov.gr portal is the first attempt to free geospatial data available to the wider Civil Service and to all citizens of Greece.
Open Geospatial Data Portal of the Decentralized Administration of Crete, featuring integrated datasets (meteorological, hydrological, bathing water quality, etc.).
Legal, Criminal, Court & Sanctioning Records
Civil Procedure Hearings Lists - You can find out about the hearings lists of Civil Procedure trials for the next fifteen days (local courts, courts of first instance, and appeal courts).
Hellenic Parliament - A database of Minutes from the Greek Parliament meetings, which can be searched by keyword.
Greece's Transparency Program Initiative provides all government institutions' acts and decisions which they are obliged to upload at the “Transparency Portal.”
mitos.gov.gr (Μητρώο Διοικητικών Διαδικασιών) is Greece's official catalogue of every administrative procedurethat the Greek state offers to citizens and businesses.
Vehicle, Flight & Vessel Tracking
Hellenic Civil Aviation Authority (HCAA) - flight schedules & airport info.
Athens (OASA / OASA Telematics) - Real-time tracking of buses and trolleys.
Media Outlets
Who Owns the Media in Greece - Solomon's investigation, "Who Owns the Media" is the first comprehensive effort to document the oligarchs' business activities and interests behind the country's dominant media groups.
State Owned
ERT (Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation) - State-owned, covers news, culture, regional content.
AMNA (Athens-Macedonian News Agency) - Generally aligned with government messaging.
Private/Independent Media
ANT1 - Centrist - ANT1 (Antenna TV) is one of the largest and most prominent mainstream television networks in Greece.
MEGA TV - Center-right (business-oriented)
OPEN TV - A center-right ideological tilt, particularly in its emphasis on pro-business and economic liberalization themes.
Newspapers
Kathimerini - Center-right, liberal economic
Ta Nea - Center-right, liberal economic (historically PASOK-aligned)
To Vima - Center
Efimerida ton Syntakton - Left
Dimokratia - Right / nationalist
Investigative Journalism
Reporters United is a network of reporters and the first nonprofit organization to support investigative journalism in Greece.
Solomon is an award-winning non-profit organization based in Greece, that produces journalism in the public interest.
Inside Story (insidestory.gr) An exclusively digital, subscription-based media outlet launched in 2016, emphasising original long-form reporting and explanatory journalism.
Public Procurement and Tenders
Central Electronic Registry For Public Procurement - Greek Central Electronic Registry for Public Procurement Pubic provides documents of tenders and public procurement.
Other Toolkits and Resources
Open Data Portals Greece Catalogue - Dateno
Public Sources 2024 project of SA WEST - It contains a collection of reliable links to ministries, government institutions, and local media sources in Greece.
Miscellaneous
Greek Language - This site provides resources for learning and understanding the Greek language, including grammar guides, vocabulary lists, and cultural insights.
Political parties of Greece – a map of the political landscape
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