Clar49.geogr the Greek homeland (often referred to as mainland greece). Beginning as early asthe 11th century BC, the ancient Greeks colonized the coastal regions of other http://www.unc.edu/courses/clar049/geogr.html
Extractions: Attika/Athens, Cape Sounion with temple of Poseidon. We think today of "Greece" as consisting of the modern political entity of Greece. In antiquity, however, the Greek world spanned far beyond the borders of the modern country, which is best to view as the Greek homeland (often referred to as Mainland Greece). Beginning as early as the 11th century B.C., the ancient Greeks colonized the coastal regions of other parts of the Mediterranean and Black Sea, so that by the 6th century B.C. Greek settlements extended from modern Georgia (on the eastern shore of the Black Sea) all the way to Spain. Among the modern countries included in the ancient world of the Greeks are the Ukraine, Roumania, Bulgaria, Turkey, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Italy (including Sicily), France, and Spain. Modern cities that were originally Greek colonies or settlements include Alexandria in Egypt, Istanbul in Turkey, Syracuse in Sicily, and Marseilles in France.
Regions Balearic Islands, Canary Islands, Cyprus, Crete, France, Gibraltar, greece mainland Islands, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Sardinia, Spain, Sicily. NORTH AMERICA http://www.seawatergreenhouse.com/regions.html
Extractions: Countries with areas of semi-arid to hyper-arid climates in proximity to the sea include: EUROPE: NORTH AMERICA: California, Cayman Islands, Mexico, Oregon. MIDDLE EAST: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, UAE, Yemen. LATIN AMERICA: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela. ASIA: China, The Galapagos and other Pacific Islands, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Sri-Lanka. AFRICA: AUSTRALASIA: Australia.
Sunworld The Greek peninsula consists of mainland greece and the islands. elected to a 4yearterm govern greece. The country is divided into 13 regions each subdivided http://www.sunworldtours.com/LearnMore.asp?CountryID=4
About Greece - Government The most prominent among these parties are the Communist Party of greece (KKE),the The country is divided into 13 administrative regions (9 mainland and 4 http://www.greece.gr/ABOUT_GREECE/CountryProfile/about_profile_government.htm
Extractions: Parliamentary sessions normally last for four years, followed by elections held on the basis of direct, secret, and universal ballot. The head of the Greek State is the President, who is elected by Parliament. The President, who has limited political powers, may hold office for a maximum of two five-year terms. Political
Dark Age In Greece Aeolic dialect is spoken along the Aegean coast of mainland greece and some the destructionof Mycenaean centers, occupying the now sparcely inhabited regions. http://www.ualberta.ca/~csmackay/CLASS_110/Dark.Ages.html
Extractions: Dark Ages At about 1050 virtually all signs of habitation in mainland Greece disappear. There are virtually no sites where there is continuous occupation from Mycenaean times into the later period (even then it's no more than a few potsherds). Only Crete shows continuous habitation. All the major Mycenaean sites are abandoned, and knowledge of the Linear B writing system is lost. Between the Mycenaean period and the historical period there is an important difference in the distribution of dialects of the Greek language. The language of the Linear B tablets most closely resembles the later Aeolic and Arcadian dialects. In the historical period, only the interior mountains of the Peloponnesus are inhabited by speakers of the Arcadian dialect, and a very similar dialect is spoken on the island of Cyprus, while the less similar Aeolic dialect is spoken along the Aegean coast of mainland Greece and some islands to the east. At this time, almost all of the Peloponnesus is inhabited by speakers of the Doric dialects, which extend to the NW north of the Isthmus. How to explain the appearance of Doric in areas where in the Bronze the language of the Linear B tablets remebled Arcadian? We now enter a period known as the Dark Ages. For 150 years (1050-900) it seems that there was an extremely low population, and then a gradual increase. Writing is developed around 800, but we have reliable written histories only from the fifth century on. This means we have reasonably good written information back to about 500. There is information for the period before 500, but it gets increasingly unreliable as one goes back in time. Back to around 700 we have fragments of poetical texts and inscriptions, which give us some contemporary information. But much of the literary tradition about the earlier period is suspect. For the period before about 700 we have to rely mainly on archaeological evidence. In the broader sense, the whole period 1050-750 can, in light of the paucity of reliable information, be classified as the Dark Age.
ThinkQuest USA Library : Regions & Countries Of The World We have pages on the mainland, the geography and the people of greece. Index People Places \ Geography Travel \ regions Countries of the World http://www.thinkquest.org/library/cat_show.html?cat_id=227&cid=2
WeddingChannel -- Honeymoon Destinations -- Greece mainland greece, meanwhile, is a great vertebrate, with the Pindos range Eighty percentof the Greek mainland is mountainous, which you The regions In Brief. http://wedding.weddingchannel.com/travel/frommers/Greece/overview/index.asp
Extractions: Greece is a land of sea and mountains. Over a fifth of the Greek land mass is comprised of islands, numbering several thousand if you count every floating crag and nowhere in Greece will you find yourself more than 96 kilometers (60 miles) from the sea. It should come as no surprise that the sea molds the Greek imagination, as well as its history. Mainland Greece, meanwhile, is a great vertebrate, with the Pindos range reaching from north to south, and continuing, like a tail, through the Peloponnese. The highest of its peaks is Mount Olympus, the seat of the gods, nearly 10,000 feet above sea level. Eighty percent of the Greek mainland is mountainous, which you will rapidly discover whether you make your way on foot or on wheels. back to top
Greek Cities Mainland regions. Population. Attica, 3,995,654. Res, Central greece, 982,342. Macedonia,3,297,523. The total area is 131,958 sq km. greece is divided in regions listed above. http://www.greeknet.co.uk/greek_cities.htm
Extractions: Greek Cities Aitoliko Didimoticho Kozani Patra ... Xanthi Greece ( ELLAS HELLENIC REPUBLIC Regions Population Attica Res Central Greece Macedonia Crete Thraki Ipiros Ionian Islands North Aegean Southern Aegean Thessalia Greece (ELLAS), located in the south-eastern Europe. It is bordered from north-west to north-east by Albania, Fyrom, Bulgaria and Turkey. The total area is 131,958 sq km.
Untitled Document minimise environmental problems, allowing a balanced use of the coastal regions asa By Sea, there is a regular ferry service to/from Piraeus, mainland greece. http://www.wessex.ac.uk/conferences/2002/coastal2002/1.html
Introductory Note On Classical Greece This area includes various coastal regions, what we now recognize as mainland greece,and a large number of islands, some large (eg, Crete, Cyprus, Rhodes) and http://www.mala.bc.ca/~johnstoi/clas101/background2.htm
Extractions: Introductory Note on Classical Greece [This note has been prepared for students in Classics 101 by Ian Johnston, instructor at Malaspina University-College. The text is in the public domain, released May 1999] Introduction Students of Classics 101 need to understand that the terms Greece and Greek can be seriously misleading in the study of ancient classical culture, if people understand by this term some more or less homogeneous, politically united nation in a specific place. The following brief background description should help to explain this point in more detail. But first a short comment on Greek names rendered into English. People turn Greek names into English equivalents in different ways. Some, for example, prefer -c to -k (e.g., Attica and Attika; Cassandra and Kassandra), -aus to -aos (e.g., Menelaus and Menelaos), -ch to -kh (e.g., Achilles, Akhilles, Akhilleus; Andromache, Andromakhe), -ae to -ai (e.g., Clytaemnestra, Klytaimnestra). Sometime Greek names have more colloquial English equivalents. The most common are Ajax (for Aias) and Hercules (for Herakles). In each of these options the first spelling is the more traditional. If you pronounce the -c in a Greek name as a hard consonant (i.e., as in
WWW-VL History Index: Ancient Greeks The Returns of the Achaean Leaders; Rome The Major regions in Ancient greece;World Bibliography of the Bronze Age archaeology of mainland greece and Crete. http://www.westernculture.com/ancientgreeks.html
Traveljournals.net - Books About Travel In Greece Eyewitness Travel Guides greece, Athens, the mainland (Eyewitness Travel Guides)Author Mary Pope Osborne ISBN 0789494264. greece Links Intro, regions inks http://www.traveljournals.net/countries/books.asp?c=gr
Greece (10/02) Mycenaeans of the Greek mainland, who spoke a greece has a strongly centralized administrativesystem 13 regional administrative regions (peripheries), headed http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/3395.htm
Greek Photo Album Lots of photos from greece, organized by region and with background articles.Category Regional Europe greece Maps and Views Photos I have split my galleries up by geographical regions. Distinct from the mainland andother islands. Central greece (Attica) has names that speak for themselves http://members.tripod.com/apollophotos/photos/greece/
Extractions: Click on a name to go to that Gallery Travel FAQ Greek Photo Galleries Recommended Guide Books Sign Guestbook ... Ionian Islands are the islands on the far west of Greece that until a few years ago, only Corfu suffered from mass tourism (Thanks England). The Peloponnese is the large "Island" that stuck off the southwestern part of Greece. It was here that the Corinthians, Spartans and Olympians lived. But a lot of other important cultural centers existed as well as the natural beauty of this rocky costal area. The Argo-saronic Islands are the four island stuck in-between the Argoid coast and Cape Souion. Distinct from the mainland and other islands. Central Greece (Attica) has names that speak for themselves such as Delphi and Athens. Lastly the Aegean Islands are the islands most tourists head for and being a tourist I have visited. Some of them such as Lesbos are untouched and maintain their tradition. Others such as Mykinos have been spoiled but have beautiful buildings. Comments to apollophotos@attbi.com.
Greece - Geography, Landscape And Climate The Sporades lie off the eastern shores of mainland greece and Euboea (Evia). Vegetationand variations in climate are dependant on geographical regions. http://agn.hol.gr/info/geog.htm
Extractions: Variety surely must be the hallmark of the Greek landscape. On the one hand, there are high mountains such as the Pindus range, also known as Greece's backbone. Mount Olympus with its summit the Pantheon, is the highest peak in Greece at an altitude of 2,917 meters.The mountains of Macedonia and Thrace are intersected here and there by a few valleys through which relatively small rivers flow. On the other hand, the endless lacework of the coastline produces a series of scenic surprises. It is these heavily indented shores which give Greece such rare beauty, quite unique in the Mediterranean. The marked variety of the terrain above water continues under the surface of the sea. Millions of years ago, the seabed was dry land. Close to Cape Tainaron (Teraro) off the south tip of the Peloponesse, the so-called Oinoussai (Inousses) Pit is 4,850 metres deep and is the deepest point in the Mediterranean. The Greek Peninsula is Europe's southeastern most tip and has an area of 131,944 square kilometers. It consists of mainland Greece ( Attica , the Peloponesse, Sterea Ellada, Thessaly, Epirus, Macedonia and Thrace) and the islands of the Aegean and Ionion seas. Geographically it belong to Europe since it forms the southern most extremety of the Balkan Peninsula. Greece also has a special link with Europe through the
Villa Holidays In Greece Below are links to villa holiday information for regions in greece Villa Villa holidaysin Ionian Islands; Villa holidays in mainland greece; Villa holidays in http://www.iglu.com/destinations/villas_in_Greece.htm
The Glorious Foods Of Greece moussaka, into the country's many different regions, where local spent nearly a decadecrisscrossing greece's pristine mountains, mainland, and islands http://www.globalgourmet.com/food/special/2001/greece/
Extractions: The Glorious Foods of Greece is the magnum opus of Greek cuisine, the first book that takes the reader on a long and fascinating journey beyond the familiar Greece of blue-and-white postcard images, and ubiquitous grilled fish and moussaka, into the country's many different regions, where local customs and foodways have remained intact for eons. The journey is both personal and inviting. Diane Kochilas spent nearly a decade crisscrossing Greece's pristine mountains, mainland, and islands, visiting cooks, bakers, farmers, shepherds, fishermen, artisan producers of cheeses, charcuterie, olives, olive oil, and more, in order to document the country's formidable culinary traditions. The result is a paean to the hitherto uncharted glories of local Greek cooking and regional lore that takes you from mountain villages to urban tables to seaside tavernas and island gardens. In an informed introduction, she sets the historic framework of the cuisine, so that we clearly see the differences among the earthy mountain cookery, the sparse, ingenious island table, and the sophisticated aromatic cooking traditions of the Greeks in diaspora. In each chapter she takes stock of the local pantry and cooking customs. From the olive-laden Peloponnesos, she brings us such unusual dishes as
The Prehistoric Archeology Of The Aegean Helladic after the Greeks' own word for greece, Hellas The mainland LBA is calledeither Late Helladic (abbreviated phase of LH IIIC in certain regions of the http://devlab.dartmouth.edu/history/bronze_age/chrono.html
