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4 days ago · Greece, the southernmost of the countries of the Balkan Peninsula. It lies at the juncture of Europe, Asia, and Africa and is heir to the heritages of Classical Greece, the Byzantine Empire, and nearly four centuries of Ottoman Turkish rule. One-fifth of Greece’s area is made up of the Greek islands.
- Balkans
Balkans, easternmost of Europe’s three great southern...
- Climate
Greece - Mediterranean, Islands, Mountains: The...
- Greece Summary
Greece, officially Hellenic Republic , Country, Balkan...
- Athens, Thebes, and Corinth
Greece - Ancient Cities, Acropolis, Parthenon: In the south,...
- Services
Greece is a parliamentary republic. The current...
- Daily Life and Social Customs
Greece - Cuisine, Culture, Traditions: In the hot summers,...
- Religion
Greece - Religion, Mythology, Pantheon: Despite the long...
- Agriculture, Forestry, and Fishing
Greece - Farming, Livestock, Fisheries: Greece’s...
- Building The Nation, 1832–1913
Greece - Unification, Modernization, Revolution: Greece’s...
- Balkans
2 days ago · Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.It borders the Black Sea to the north; Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Iran to the east; Iraq, Syria, and the Mediterranean Sea (and Cyprus) to the south; and the Aegean Sea, Greece, and Bulgaria to the west.
3 days ago · Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia). It occupies nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. The long processes of history marked it off as the home of a distinctive civilization.
2 days ago · The Thracian language was the Indo-European language spoken in Southeast Europe by the Thracians, the northern neighbors of the Greeks. Some authors group Thracian and Dacian into a southern Baltic linguistic family.
1 day ago · Albanian (about 9 million) Armenian (about 3.5 million) In addition, there are also smaller sub-groups within the Indo-European languages of Europe, including: Baltic, including Latvian, Lithuanian, Samogitian and Latgalian. Celtic, including Breton, Cornish, Irish, Manx, Welsh, and Scottish Gaelic.
4 days ago · Kosovo, self-declared independent country in the Balkans region of Europe. Although the United States and most members of the European Union (EU) recognized Kosovo’s declaration of independence from Serbia in 2008, Serbia, Russia, and a significant number of other countries—including several EU members—did not.
5 days ago · France is a unitary semi-presidential republic. The head of state is the President, who is also a politician. The Prime Minister is secondary to the President. Metropolitan France is bordered (clockwise from the North) by Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Monaco, Andorra, and Spain.
