Soufli

The European Union's largest wildfire since the bloc started keeping records continued to rage for the 13th straight day in northeastern Greece on Thursday burning a pristine forest in the Dadia National Park.

The blaze has already burned around 81,000 hectares (200,000 acres) of land, according to the European Union's Copernicus Emergency Management Service. 

Two fire fronts in the region of Evros continue to rage in the area of Leptokarya, particularly at Meghalo Rema and Kotronia.

The change of the wind direction from northeastern to southern on Wednesday pushed the blaze to another direction that seemed uncontrollable.

The Evros fire in northeastern Greece has destroyed at least 808.7 square kilometers, an area larger than New York City, which occupies 778.2 square kilometers, making it the largest blaze in the EU since 2000, according to data from Copernicus' Emergency Management Agency.

In the wake of the extensive wildfires that ravaged the country this week, experts are bemoaning that what was destroyed in just six days will take decades to regrow without the necessary conditions and provisions.

Firefighters are currently battling 111 wildfires across the country after 59 new blazes broke out in the last 24 hours.

Many of the new fires were flare-ups in Parnitha, Evros and in other fire fronts, the fire service said.

In Parnitha, a strong firefighting contingent is battling flare-ups mainly in the southwestern part, near the Fyli fortress.

Three days following the discovery of 18 deceased individuals, presumed to be migrants or refugees, in the Dadia forest situated in the northeastern Evros region, firefighters discovered the charred remains of another man, also suspected to be an asylum seeker, on Thursday, it was announced Friday.

Ecumenical Patriarch Vartholomeos expressed on Wednesday his support to those affected by the wildfires that have been raging for days across Greece, describing them as a "tragedy".

Firefighters continued their efforts to combat numerous wildfires throughout Greece on Wednesday.

Bridging Greek and Japanese culture, the exhibition "Like Silk" is taking place at the Art of Silk Museum in Soufli, northeastern Greece. Set up by the Corfu Museum of Asian Art and the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) (piop.gr), under the aegis of the Japanese Embassy in Greece, the exhibition offers displays of select antiquities from the museum's collections.

The Greek authorities have initiated construction work for a 35-kilometer-long steel fence along the Meriç River as part of the first phase of a new 140-kilometer-long wall project on the Turkish border to prevent irregular migration.