Place:Greece

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NameGreece
Alt namesEllassource: Times Atlas of World History (1993) p 344
Elliniki Dhimokratiasource: CIA, World Fact Book (1995)
Elliniki Dimokratiasource: Cambridge World Gazetteer (1990) p 239-241
Ellinikí Dimokratíasource: Britannica Book of the Year (1990) p 621 ff.; Britannica Book of the Year (1993) p 615
Ellinikí Dimokratíasource: Wikipedia
Ellássource: Getty Vocabulary Program
Greciasource: Cassell's Italian Dictionary (1983) p 233; Cassell's Spanish Dictionary (1978)
Griechenlandsource: Cassell's German Dictionary (1982) p 278
Griekenlandsource: Engels Woordenboek (1987) II, 286
Grècesource: UN Terminology Bulletin (1993) p 54
Gréciasource: Novo Dicionário Aurélio (1975) p 701
Hellassource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988) p 462-463
Hellenic Republicsource: Wikipedia
Kingdom of Greecesource: CIA, World Fact Book (1995)
TypeNation
Coordinates39°N 22°E
Contained Places
Autonomous region
Mount Athos
General region
Ambracia
Antikythera
Inhabited place
Faros
Periphery
Attikis
Central Greece ( 1000 - )
Central Macedonia
East Macedonia and Thrace
Ionian Islands ( 1864 - )
Ipeiros
Kríti
North Aegean
Peloponnese
South Aegean
Thessaly
West Greece
West Macedonia
Region
Makedonia ( 1000 - )
Thrace ( 1000 - )
Unknown
Artis
Attikis (Eparhia)
Attikis (Nomos)
Fokidos
Hiou
Irakleiou
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
source: Family History Library Catalog


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Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Athens is the country's capital and largest city (its urban area also including the municipality of Piraeus). According to the 2011 census, Greece's population is slightly less than 11 million.

Greece is located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia and Africa and has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the 11th longest coastline in the world at in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1,400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at .

Modern Greece traces its roots to the civilization of Ancient Greece, generally considered the cradle of Western civilization. As such, it is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, including both tragedy and comedy. This legacy is partly reflected in the seventeen UNESCO World Heritage Sites located in Greece, ranking it 7th in Europe and 13th in the world. The modern Greek state was established in 1830, following the Greek War of Independence.

Greece has been a member of what is now the European Union since 1981 and the eurozone since 2001, NATO since 1952, and is a founding member of the United Nations. Greece is a developed country with an advanced, high-income economy and very high standards of living, including the 21st highest quality of life as of 2010.

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The Geniko Archio tou Kratos[1] has digitized records from many parts of the country.
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