which country is Greece and what do they do?
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Greece is a European Country. Europe is a continent. (the name Europe was taken from a girl in Greek Mythology!) \nContinents are Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, America. Have you ever seen the Olympic flag? every cycle means one continent. Olympic games born in ancient Greece. The first Olympic Games hosted by Greece too in 1896.\nHave you ever heard, Hercules, Alexander the Great, Plato, Socrates... all Greeks! \n\nYou can find anything here, we use EURO currency.
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You wouldn't by chance be from Greece? :-)
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of course i have...i live in greece and we share borders with albania. its really sad, how much ignorance walks around these days!
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My husband and I got married in Greece last September.  It was amazing and surprisingly much cheaper than getting married in the US.  I highly recommend it.  There are websites that can help you.
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The history of Greece began with the Stone Age hunters and early farmers. This time period was followed by the civilizations of the Minoan and Mycenaean kings. Next came the Dark Ages which was a time period characterized by many wars and invasions. Greece was then invaded by the Dorians in approximately 1100 BC. Finally, in the period from 500-336 BC Greece was divided into small city states. A city-state consisted of a city and its surrounding countryside. \n\n\nChronology\n\n6000 - 2900 BC Neolithic Period \n2900-2000 BC Early Bronze Age \n2000-1400 BC Minoan Age \n1600-1100 BC Mycenaean Age \n1100-750 BC The Dark Ages \n750-500 BC Archaic Period \n500-336 BC Classical Period \n336-146 BC Hellenistic Period \n\n\nhttp://www.cedarville.edu/academics/education/resource/schools/chca/othergrades/greecetd/greece1.htm\n--------------\n3000 BC In early Bronze Age settlers from Asia Minor came to the island and fused with earlier Neolithic occupants to develop what is known as the Early Cycladic culture. They worked in marble and stone and traded over sea.\n\n1600 BC During the Late Bronze Age Siphnos was under the cultural andcommercial hegemony of the Minoans of Crete. It is believed that theCretans founded the town named Minoa but remains are as yet undiscovered.\n\nIn 1400 BC the explosion of Santorini destroyed the major centers of Minoan civilization the Mycenaeans became the dominant power in the area and used the islands as relay staions to the near east, replacing many of the indigenous people with Greeks.\n\nAt about 1100 BC during the dark days of the Dorian Invasion, Sifnos was colonized by Ionians from Attika, led by their chieftan Alkenor who became the islands first sovereign.\n\nIn the 8th century BC Greeks began to think of themselves as an ethnic unity. City States began to grow up on the mainland and the islands. Sifnos was under the domination of neighboring Milos. It was then that Gold was discovered on the island and the inhabitants became quite rich, paving their capital in Parian Marble and building a treasury in Delphi. It was said that every year the Sifniots would present a solid golden egg to the God Apollo. One year out of guilt they gave him an egg that was merely plated in Gold. The angry God destroyed their mines. It was also during this period that Samian pirates plundered the island. With the riches they took, they aquired the island of Hydra for their home. When the mines of Sifnos brought forth no more precious metal the island was reduced to poverty.\n\nIn the fifth century BC Sifnos was part of the Greek alliance of City states that defeated the Persians at Marathon, Salamis and Platea. Sifnos became a part of the Delian League and came under the authority of Athens. During the Peleponisian wars, Sifnos managed to stay out of the conflict. In 338 it fell under the influence of Phillip of Macedonia. When Persians captured it in 332 Alexander the Great sent a squadron to expell them. When Alexander died and the empire was devided among his generals, Sifnos fell under the influence of the Ptolemies of Egypt until 146bc when they fell to the Romans.\n\nhttp://www.greektravel.com/sifnos/history.htm
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The Mediterranean Sea moderates Greece´s climate, cooling the air in summer and providing warmth in the winter months. Summers are generally hot and dry. Winters are moderate and rainy in coastal regions and cold and snowy in mountainous areas.\n\nThey drew fresh water running down from the mountains and because of the water coming from the mountains the ground was fertile for growing.
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The Greeks themselves didn't exist as a nation, at least not as we know it, but rather as a group of mostly unfriendly city-states in that region, centered around different places at different times.  The earliest "greek" civilization centered first in the Cyclades and then Crete.  After that it moved to the mainland and Mycenaea (the time of the Greek legends) and then on to various others, culminating in the rise of Macedonia and its young king Alexander the Great.\n\nSee link below:
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GREECE ARE GLORIOUS ***EUROPEAN CHAMPIONS***. \n\nRIGHT NOW THEY THREE TEAMS PLAYING IN EUROPE.  PANATHINAIKOS HAS A GOOD CHANCE TO WIN THE UEFA AND AEK JUST BEAT AC MILAN AND WILL BE ADVANCING MOST PROBABLY TO THE KNOCK OUT STAGE OF THE CHAAMPIONS LEAGUE.\n\nWELL KNOWN GREEK TEAMS:\n\nOLYMPIAKOS\nPANATHINAIKOS\nAEK\nARIS\nPAOK\nHRAKLHS\nPANIONIOS\nOFH
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Is that *really* what the Greeks are know for? ;)
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Turkey, I believe, is a type of foul, often eaten by Americans on a November holiday to celebrate the slaughter of Native North Americans and the rewards retained from doing so.  Greece is a country in southern Europe, capital city = Athens, cradle of western world, bordered by Aegean sea, Ionean Sea, Macedonia, Albania, Bulgaria, yadda yadda yadda.
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This is a general confusion! Greece of course is accepting the name Macedonia since it is a Greek name! The entire northern Greece is called the province of Macedonia (for the last 3000 years)! The problem is with a small state that emerge from Yugoslavia. That small state is called Republic of Makedonija or Fyrom (former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia) or Slav Macedonia. That small state instead of using its name its using the Greek name Macedonia or Makedonia trying desperately to link itself with the glory past of the Greek region (ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia was the homeland of Alexander the Grate). That effort of course is not a problem! Everyone is entitle to link himself with any past he likes! It is totally acceptable! The problem is with the fact that the state of FYROM or Makedonija(pronounce as makedonitsa) is deliberately trying to prove that ancient Macedonia was not Greek and that real Macedonia in Greece should be returned to them since they use the same name! Remarkable isn't it!\nThe paranoia of that state is so incredible that although their language (makedonijian) is a Bulgarian dialect they refer to it as Macedonian. Although the last 50 years they were called Makedonijans or Slav Macedonians in recent years they refer to themselves only as Macedonians conveniently forgetting to say that they are Slavs.
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It is a state union of two former Yugoslav republics.\nthey are neighbouring states in the Balkan Peninsular.
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Macedonia is one of the countries to come out of the break up of Yugoslavia, which is in the Balkan region of Europe, not Asia.  The capital is Skopje.  Neighboring it to the south is Greece, and if you remember your history better than your geography, you know that Alexander the Great's father was known as Philip of Macedon.  To the east of Macedonia is Bulgaria, and it is also wedged in next to Albania and Montenegro.\nDo you know the difference between Slovenia, former part of Yugoslavia, and Slovakia, former part of Czechoslovakia?
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Peripheries and Prefectures\nMain article: Peripheries of Greece, Prefectures of Greece\n\n \nGreek peripheries and prefectures.Greece consists of 13 administrative regions known as peripheries, which subdivide further into the 51 prefectures (nomoi, singular - nomos). For more detailed maps of the peripheries and/or prefectures, see the Peripheries of Greece page or Prefectures of Greece page.\n\nBeyond these one autonomous region exists: Mount Athos (Agio Oros - Holy Mountain), a monastic state under Greek sovereignty.\n\nThe 51 nomoi subdivide into 147 eparchies (singular eparchia), which contain 1,033 municipalities and communities: 900 urban municipalities (demoi) and 133 rural communities (koinotetes). Before 1999, Greece's local government structure featured 5,775 local authorities: 457 demoi and 5,318 koinotetes, subdivided into 12,817 localities (oikismoi).\n\n[edit]\nGeography\n \nMap of Greece \nGreece from orbitMain article: Geography of Greece \nGreece consists of a large mainland at the southern end of the Balkans; the Peloponnesus peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the Isthmus of Corinth); and numerous islands (around 3,000), including Crete, Rhodes, Kos, Euboea and the Dodecanese and the Cycladic groups of the Aegean Sea as well as the Ionian Sea islands. Greece has more than 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi) of coastline and a land boundary of 1,160 kilometres (721 mi). Approximately 8% of the nation's territory is covered by forests.\n\nFour fifths of Greece consist of mountains or hills, making the country one of the most montainous in Europe. Western Greece contains a number of lakes and wetlands and it is dominated by the Pindus mountain range. Pindus has a maximum elevation of 2,636 metres (8,648 ft) and it is essentially a prolongation of the Dinaric Alps. The range continues through western Peloponnese, crosses the islands of Kythera and Antikythera and find its way into southwestern Aegean, in the island of Crete where it eventually ends. (Actually the islands of the Aegean are peaks of underwater mountains that once consisted an extension of the mainland). Pindus is characterized by its high, steep peaks, often dissected by numerous canyons and a variety of other karstic landscapes. Most notably, the impressive Meteora formation consisting of high, steep boulders provides a breathtaking experience for the hundrends of thousands of tourists who visit the area each year. Special lifts transfer visitors to the scenic monasteries that lye on top of those rocks. Meteora are situated in the Trikala prefecture. The Vikos-Aoos Gorge is yet another spectacular formation and it is the second largest canyon on Earth, second only to the Grand Canyon. The Vicos-Aoos Gorge is a popular hotspot for those in fond of extreme sports.\n\nMount Olympus is the tallest mountain in the country, located in the northern Pieria prefecture, near Thessaloniki. Mytikas in Olympus range has a height of 2,919 metres (9,570 ft) at its tallest peak. Once considered the throne of the Gods, it is today extremely popular among hikers and climbers who deem its height as a challenge. Moreover, northeastern Greece features yet another high altitude mountain range, the Rhodope range, spreading across the prefectures of Eastern Macedonia and Thrace; this area is covered with vast, thick, ancient forests including the famous Dadia.\n\nExpansive plains are primarily located in the prefectures of Thessaly, Central Macedonia and Thrace. They constitute key economic regions as they are among the few arable places in the country. Volos and Larissa are the two largest cities of Thessaly.\n\nGreece's climate consists of three types that influence well defined regions of its territory. Those are the Mediterranean, the Alpine and the Temperate types. The first one features mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. The Cyclades, the Dodecanese, Crete, Eastern Peloponessus and parts of the Sterea Ellada refion are mostly affecte
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The question should be does anyone speaks Greek? Greece is the country.
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egypt is a country.\n\nEgypt (Arabic: مصر, romanized Misr, in Egyptian Arabic Máṣr, listen (help·info)), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a Middle Eastern country in North Africa. While the country is geographically situated in Africa, the Sinai Peninsula, east of the Suez Canal, is a land bridge to Asia.\n\nCovering an area of about 1,001,450 square kilometres (386,560 square miles), Egypt borders Libya to the west, Sudan to the south, and Israel and the Gaza Strip to the northeast; on the north and the east are the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea, respectively.\n\nEgypt is the fifteenth most populous country in the world. The vast majority of its 78.8 million population (2006) live near the banks of the Nile River (about 40,000 km² or 15,450 sq. miles), where the only arable agricultural land is found. Large areas of land are part of the Sahara Desert and are sparsely inhabited. About half of the Egyptian people today are urban, living in the densely populated centers of greater Cairo, the largest city in Africa and the Middle East, and Alexandria.
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Ancestors of modern greek people were people living in Byzantium. The ottomans (the modern turks) seized the Byzantinum empire at 1456, and greeks started a revolution to regain their independence in 1821, and in 1832 the Greek Country was first created. Of course, after almost 400 years under ottoman rule, the relationship of greeks with turks was far from good, and still remain so nowadays. \nCyprus was freed, too, in the events of 1821, but fell to the english slightly afterwards. By 1976, It was an independent country, free of english, but still unpowerful. Then, in cold blood, the turks invaded cyprus and claimed it as theirs. The greeks were supporting Cyprus' independence, so they couldn't find a way to work things out. So, they temporarily divided cyprus in two, with the northeast part being turkish and the southwest part being independent. This is how things are today, and a solution has yet to be found, because neither turks, or cyprians would step back...