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GREECE HELLAS
  • The country which has the most blue sky
  • in the world!

Socrates Harisis
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CULTURE
  • The Culture of Greece has evolved over thousands
    of years, with its beginnings in the Mycenaean
    and Minoan Civilizations, continuing most notably
    into Classical Greece, through the influence of
    the Roman Empire and its Greek Eastern successor
    the Byzantine Empire. The Ottoman Empire too had
    a significant influence on Greek Culture, but the
    Greek war of independence is credited with
    revitalizing Greece and giving birth to a single
    entity of its multi-faceted culture throughout
    the ages.

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FOOD
  • Although one can find different ethnic foods in
    Athens, the great majority of restaurants in
    Greece serve only one variety of food Greek
    food! To most people who consider "variety" to
    come from different types of cuisines this might
    sound rather monotonous, but Greek food comes in
    many shapes, forms, and varieties to keep even
    the most demanding traveler satisfied.

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  • What to Eat when in Greece
  • Greek salad with every meal ("horiatiki salata"
    village salad, is best)Fresh Fish of any kind
    (you can ask to see the fish before it is
    cooked)Kalamari squid (fried or sautéed with
    onions and red wine)Gyros (gee'ros.) As you will
    find out not all gyros are created equal, ask the
    locals for the best restaurant.Octopus grilled
    on charcoal with lemon.Spinach Pie
    (spanakopita)Cheese Pie (Tyropita)
  • On the rural roads in Greece you will see little
    kiosks where the farmers sell produce and fresh
    fruits. My family and I get the juiciest fresh
    peaches and other seasonal fruit from these
    vendors and we eat half of it before we reach our
    destination. Don't miss out on the opportunity if
    you pass one.

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  • The Arts
  • The art and architecture of Ancient Greece have
    greatly influenced Western civilization through
    to the present day. Byzantine art and
    architecture also played an important role in
    early Christianity, and remain a significant
    influence in the Orthodox Christian nations of
    Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Yet, because of the
    ravages of history, only a minor assortment of
    ancient Greek art has survived - most frequently
    in the form of sculpture and architecture and
    minor arts, including coin design, pottery and
    gem engraving. Greece also has a rich history of
    contemporary art from the revolution onwards

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  • Architecture
  • Remains of ancient Greek architecture still
    survive or are well documented today alongside
    more modern examples.
  • It emphasized a Grecian cross layout, the
    Byzantine capitol style of column (a mixture of
    Ionic and Corinthian capitols) and a central dome
    surrounded by several smaller domes. Greece also
    experienced something of a Neo-Byzantine revival
    following the Greek Revolution, and quite
    unsurprisingly, also experienced a growth in
    Neo-Classical Architecture in the years following
    the Revolution this came into a contact and
    interaction with traditional Byzantine villa
    architecture to produce a form specific to modern
    Greece

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  • Painting and sculpture
  • In contrast to other illustrated forms,
    surviving ancient Greek paintings are very rare.
    Greek painters worked mainly on wooden panels,
    and their finest works were admired for hundreds
    of years after their creation. However, these
    paintings rapidly disappeared after the 4th
    century AD when they were no longer adequately
    protected. In addition to sub-standard Roman
    copies, for example in Pompeii, rare surviving
    examples have been found in the tombs of the
    kings of Macedon at Vergina, at also in ancient
    Macedon, as well as Kazanlak in ancient Thrace.

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POPULATION AND AREA
  • Greece has about eleven million people of
    population and 131.957 sq km of area.
  • The capital of Greece is Athens which has about
    three million and five hundred people (according
    to the number of 2001).
  • The biggest port is the port of Piraeus which is
    located near to the capital city Athens

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PERIFERIES AND PREFECTURES
  • PERIFERIES
  • Attica
  • Central Greece
  • Central Macedonia
  • Crete
  • East Macedonia and Thrace
  • Epirus
  • Ionian Islands
  • North Aegean
  • Peloponnese
  • South Aegean
  • Thessaly
  • West Greece
  • West Macedonia

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ECONOMY
Tomatoes Onions Lettuce Eggplant
Cucumbers Green Peppers
Cauliflower Carrots Cabbage Broccoli
Fresh fruits Citrus Oranges
Lemons
Olive Sunflower Soybean Cotton
Tobacco Potatoes Sugar beet
Vegetables
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TOURISM IN GREECE
  • Greece attracts well over 16 million tourists a
    year contributing 15 of the Gross Domestic
    Product (GDP) of the nation's Economy. The
    country has been an attraction for international
    visitors since antiquity for its rich and long
    history and more recently for its glorious
    Mediterranean coastline and beaches. In 2005,
    6,088,287 tourists visited only the city of
    Athens, the capital city.
  • In 2004, the country welcomed over 16.5 million
    tourists. At the same time, tourism consumption
    increased considerably since the turn of the
    millennium, from US 17.7 bn. in 2000 to US 29.6
    bn. in 2004. The number of jobs directly or
    indirectly related to the tourism sector were
    659,719 and represented 16.5 of the countrys
    total employment for that year.
  • Tourism in Greece is run by the Greek National
    Tourism Organisation (GNTO) who use Helena
    Paparizou, a famous Greek singer who won
    Eurovision song contest in 2005 as an ambassador.
    The World Travel Tourism Council (WTTC) expects
    Greece to gain US54.12 billion in economic
    activity through tourism in 2007, a 4 increase
    over 2006.

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INDUSTRY IN GREECE
  • The industrial sector in Greece is weak. An
    established tradition exists only in the
    production of textiles, processed foods, and
    cement. (What is said to be the world's largest
    cement factory is located in Vólos.) In the past,
    private investment has been oriented much more
    toward real estate than toward industry, and
    concrete apartment blocks proliferate throughout
    the country. In the 1960s and '70s, taking
    advantage of an investment regime that privileged
    foreign capital, Greek shipowners invested
    significantly in sectors such as oil refining and
    shipbuilding. Shipping continues to be a key
    industrial sector, with the merchant fleet being
    one of the largest in the world, even if many of
    its ships are older than the world average. In
    the 1970s many ships that had hitherto registered
    under flags of convenience returned to the Greek
    flag. The fact that Greek ships, predominantly
    bulk carriers, are principally engaged in
    carrying cargoes between third countries renders
    the shipping industry vulnerable to downturns in
    international economic activity.

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SHIPPING IN GREECE
  • In the early twentieth century, well-established
    Greek-run international businesses turned their
    focus towards shipping as a result of major
    upheavals affecting their markets the Russian
    revolution, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire
    and restrictions in Egypt closed their markets to
    foreigners. The Greek grain merchants in London
    and Odessa (such as the Vaglianos Bros. and
    Rodocanachi family) lost access to their
    traditional grain suppliers and markets and,
    rather than close, they seized the chance to
    invest in merchant fleets of steamships, and
    specialized in tramp shipping.

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GREEK HISTORY
  • This article covers the Greek civilization. For
    the Greek language as a whole, see Greek
    language. For the Classical Greek language, see
    Ancient Greek.
  • The History of Greece traditionally encompasses
    the study of the Greek people, the areas they
    ruled historically, and the territory now
    composing the modern state of Greece.
  • The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied
    significantly through the ages, and as a
    consequence, the history of Greece is similarly
    elastic in what it includes. Each era has its own
    related sphere of interest.
  • The first (proto-)Greek-speaking tribes are
    generally thought to have arrived in the Greek
    mainland sometime in the 3rd millennium BC, where
    various pre-Greek peoples had already been
    practicing agriculture since the 7th millennium
    BC.
  • At its geographical peak, Greek civilization
    spread from Greece to Egypt and to the Hindu Kush
    mountains in Pakistan . Since then, Greek
    minorities have remained in former Greek
    territories (e.g., Turkey, Italy, and Libya,
    Levant, etc.), and Greek emigrants have
    assimilated into differing societies across the
    globe (e.g., North America, Australia, Northern
    Europe, South Africa etc.). Still today, most
    Greeks live in the modern states of Greece
    (independent since 1821) and Cyprus.

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GREEG HEROES
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  • Modern Greek Heroes
  • Athanasius Diakos
  • Markus Mpotsarhs
  • Georgius Karaiskakis
  • Theodorus Kolokotronis
  • Laskarina Moumoulina
  • Konstantin Kanares
  • Alexander Ypsilanti
  • Konstantin Tsabelas
  • And
    more

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SIGHTSEEING IN GREECE
  • If some day come to Greece you can visit the
    following sights!!!

Delphi in Phocis
Acropolis in Athens
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Saint Laura
Evvoia
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Santorin
Zakynthos
Kefallinia!
And even
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Vardousia
Oiti
And more
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THE END
It was some helpful information about Greece
Socrates Harisis
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