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3 days ago · Ancient Greece usually encompasses Greek antiquity, as well as part of the region's late prehistory (Late Bronze Age). It lasted from c. 1200 BC – c. 600 AD and can be subdivided into the following periods: Greek Dark Ages (or Iron Age, Homeric Age), 1100–800 BC. Archaic period, 800–490 BC.
- Modern Greece
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in...
- Bronze Age
Aegean civilization is a general term for the Bronze Age...
- History of Greece
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- Athens International Airport
Athens International Airport Eleftherios Venizelos (Greek:...
- Modern Greece
4 days ago · Greece has more than 2,000 islands, of which about 170 are inhabited; some of the easternmost Aegean islands lie just a few miles off the Turkish coast. The country’s capital is Athens, which expanded rapidly in the second half of the 20th century. Attikí (ancient Greek: Attica ), the area around the capital, is now home to about one-third ...
2 days ago · Pericles (/ ˈ p ɛr ɪ k l iː z /, Greek: Περικλῆς; c. 495 – 429 BC) was a Greek politician and general during the Golden Age of Athens.He was prominent and influential in Ancient Athenian politics, particularly between the Greco-Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, and was acclaimed by Thucydides, a contemporary historian, as "the first citizen of Athens".
- Xanthippus (father), Agariste (mother)
2 days ago · Parthenon, Athenian Acropolis (3/4 perspeсtive, facade), Athens cityscape. Athens, Greece. [Not the Parthenon; appears to be the Temple of Hephaestus in the Athenian Agora]
5 days ago · Academy, in ancient Greece, the academy, or college, of philosophy in the northwestern outskirts of Athens where Plato acquired property about 387 bce and used to teach. At the site there had been an olive grove, a park, and a gymnasium sacred to the legendary Attic hero Academus (or Hecademus). The designation Academy, as a school of ...
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
5 days ago · Ermou Street. The square of Agia Irini emerged from the city's past to become the centre of evening entertainment for young people and the surrounding streets, which pulsate in the evenings with the beat music of the bars. And of course, Syntagma, with the large metro station, the Parliament and luxurious historical hotels like Grande Bretagne ...
