| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
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| Place | Type | AsNotedIn | Area |
| Attica Region, GR | Greek Periphery |
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| Central Greece Region, GR | Greek Periphery |
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| Central Macedonia Region, GR | Greek Periphery |
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| Crete | Island | ||
| Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Region, GR | Greek Periphery |
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| Epirus Region, GR | Greek Periphery |
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| Ionian Islands Region | Greek Periphery |
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| Monastic Community of Mount Athos | Religious Community | ||
| North Aegean Region, GR | Greek Periphery |
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| Peloponnese Region | Greek Periphery |
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| South Aegean Region, GR | Greek Periphery |
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| Taygetos Mountains | Mountain Range |
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| Thessaly | Greek Periphery |
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| Western Greece Region, GR | Greek Periphery |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
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| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| -2400/00/00 | A recipe for gingerbread appears in Greece. | Old Fashioned Gingerbread |
| Physiographic Features | Type | AsNotedIn |
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| Aegean Sea | Sea |
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| Cyclades | Archipelago |
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| Dodecanese | Archipelago |
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| Lake Kerkini | ||
| Lake Vistonis | ||
| Monastic Community of Mount Athos | Religious Community | |
| Mount Giona | ||
| Mount Olympus | ||
| Saronic Islands | Archipelago |
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Southern Europe, bordering the Aegean Sea, Ionian Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, between Albania and Turkey - The World Factbook
| Particulars for Greece: | |
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| Food Attribute | Greek Food |
| Locale Type | Nation |
| Data | |
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| Demonym: | Greek |
| Corruption Perceptions Index - 2014, Transparency International: | 69 |
Greece achieved independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1830. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In World War II, Greece was first invaded by Italy (1940) and subsequently occupied by Germany (1941-44); fighting endured in a protracted civil war between supporters of the king and other anti-Communists and Communist rebels. Following the latter's defeat in 1949, Greece joined NATO in 1952. In 1967, a group of military officers seized power, establishing a military dictatorship that suspended many political liberties and forced the king to flee the country. In 1974, democratic elections and a referendum created a parliamentary republic and abolished the monarchy. In 1981, Greece joined the EC (now the EU); it became the 12th member of the European Economic and Monetary Union in 2001. In 2010, the prospect of a Greek default on its euro-denominated debt created severe strains within the EMU and raised the question of whether a member country might voluntarily leave the common currency or be removed. - The World Factbook
| Work | Type | AsNotedIn | Creator | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Astradeni (book) | Novel | Eugenia Fakinou | ||
| D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths | Book | Ingri D'Aulaire Edgar Parin D'Aulaire | ||
| Fool's Gold | Book | Maro Douka | ||
| Hyperion | Book | Friedrich Holderlin | ||
| The Daughter | Book | Pavlos Matesis | ||
| The Last Temptation of Christ (book) | Book | Nikos Kazantzakis | ||
| The Late-Night News | Book | Petros Markaris | ||
| The Magus (book) | Book | John Fowles | Spetses Island was the inspiration for the fictional island of Phraxos in John Fowles' The Magus | |
| The Other Greeks: The Family Farm and the Agrarian Roots of Western Civilization (book) | Book | Victor Davis Hanson | ||
| The Penelopiad | Book |
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Margaret Atwood | The Penelopiad is set in Ithaca and Sparta in Greece |
| The Story Of Civilization 2: The Life of Greece (book) | History Book | Will Durant Ariel Durant | ||
| The Third Wedding | Book | Costas Taktsis | ||
| Ulysses (poem) | Poem | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | Ulysses has returned to Ithaca. | |
| Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture | Book | Apostolos Doxiadis | ||
| Z | Book | Vassilis Vassilikos |
By
It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match'd with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and feed, and know not me. I cannot rest from travel; I will drink Life to the lees. All times I have enjoy'd Greatly, have suffer'd greatly, both with those That loved me, and alone; on shore, and when Thro' scudding drifts the rainy Hyades Vext the dim sea. I am become a name; For always roaming with a hungry heart Much have I seen and known,-- cities of men And manners, climates, councils, governments, Myself not least, but honor'd of them all,-- And drunk delight of battle with my peers, Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy. I am a part of all that I have met; Yet all experience is an arch wherethro' Gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life! Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains; but every hour is saved >From that eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it were For some three suns to store and hoard myself, And this gray spirit yearning in desire To follow knowledge like a sinking star, Beyond the utmost bound of human thought. This is my son, mine own Telemachus, to whom I leave the sceptre and the isle,-- Well-loved of me, discerning to fulfill This labor, by slow prudence to make mild A rugged people, and thro' soft degrees Subdue them to the useful and the good. Most blameless is he, centred in the sphere Of common duties, decent not to fail In offices of tenderness, and pay Meet adoration to my household gods, When I am gone. He works his work, I mine. There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail; There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me,-- That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheads,-- you and I are old; Old age hath yet his honor and his toil. Death closes all; but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks; The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends. 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down; It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we are, we are,-- One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
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