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2 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 ...
- Balkans
Generally, the Balkans are bordered on the northwest by...
- Climate
Greece - Mediterranean, Islands, Mountains: The...
- Greece Summary
In 1952 Greece joined NATO. A military junta ruled the...
- 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
4 days ago · Islands of Greece by size NASA image of Crete NASA image of Rhodes Ithaca is to the upper right of the larger Kefalonia island in this picture. The small island in the top-right corner is the uninhabited Atokos island (NASA World Wind satellite picture). The following are the 40 largest Greek islands listed by surface area.
4 days ago · Crete ( / kriːt / KREET; Greek: Κρήτη, Modern: Kríti [ˈkriti], Ancient: Krḗtē [krɛ̌ːtεː]) is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete rests about 160 km (99 mi) south of the ...
- 8,450 km² (3,260 sq mi)
- 624,408 (2021)
- 88
- Crete
3 days ago · Sappho. Kalpis painting of Sappho by the Sappho Painter ( c. 510 BC), currently held in the National Museum, Warsaw. Sappho ( / ˈsæfoʊ /; Greek: Σαπφώ Sapphṓ [sap.pʰɔ̌ː]; Aeolic Greek Ψάπφω Psápphō; c. 630 – c. 570 BC) was an Archaic Greek poet from Eresos or Mytilene on the island of Lesbos. [a] Sappho is known for her ...
3 days ago · Sources Herodotus, the main historical source for this conflict All the surviving primary sources for the Greco-Persian Wars are Greek; no contemporary accounts survive in other languages. By far the most important source is the fifth-century Greek historian Herodotus. Herodotus, who has been called the "Father of History", was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor (then part of the ...
- 499–449 BC
- Greek victory
1 day ago · 38. EPs. 1. Singles. 40. Promotional singles. 8. The American hip hop group Black Eyed Peas has released nine studio albums, two compilation albums, one extended play, forty singles, eight promotional singles, thirty-eight music videos, and two video albums. Interscope Records released the band's debut album, Behind the Front, in the United ...
1 day ago · The Human Development Report includes data for all 193 member states of the United Nations, [16] as well as Hong Kong SAR and the State of Palestine. However, the Human Development Index is not calculated for two UN member states: DPR Korea (North Korea) and Monaco, only some components of the index are calculated for these two countries.
