[1] Saud, King of Saudi Arabia lived in exile in Greece before moving to Egypt.

[3] During the Yom Kippur War, Greece which had refused to grant the U.S. overflight or ground facilities to provide Israel with arms, allowed Soviet planes to pass through their air space to airlift military supplies to Egypt.

[1] In February 2017, Greek President Prokopis Pavlopoulos led a delegation of eleven ministers and top businessmen to meet King Salman, a move that was hailed by both Greek and Saudi press as "ushering in a new era of bilateral relations".

[7] The deal provided for Greece lending a U.S.-made Patriot missile system battery to Saudi Arabia to protect critical energy facilities in the Kingdom.

[10] On 8 December 2021, Greece and Saudi Arabia signed a maritime transport agreement in London.