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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!
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Vardousia
Oiti
And more
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THE END
It was some helpful information about Greece
Socrates Harisis