Greece

The flight time from Greece to Tampa, Florida is about 11 hours, 29 minutes.

One of them were the Persians.

They took the money provided by the city-states in the anti-Persian league and diverted it to their own purposes - building the Parthenon, the arts and putting half their people on the public payroll. It was very profitable, so they continued to collect the money by force after peace was made with the Persians.

Like all civilizations, territories are usually decided by physical features that divide the land. Being separated from other territories, even on a smaller scale like city districts, situations cause people to do things differently than others. Different languages, cultures, religions and even physical features can change due to having to adapt to certain situations and influences (example: Charles Darwin noted on the changes between swallows that lived on islands and swallows that lived inland; the same can be said for humans, but usually less physically noticeable)

In Greece, the people were divided by massive mountains, forcing the similar cultured people to "adapt" causing them to become more independent, thus dividing Greece into city-states.

The Mountains in Greece contributed to the rise of the city states because it gave them protection from attack on the low parts of Greece. If your living on a mountain you cant be attacked from the sky because at the time they didn't have planes.

Ionian Sea, Mediterranean Sea, and Aegean Sea.

Yes, the country Greece does have mountains.

In 2004, the country welcomed over 16.5 million tourists

In 2005, 6,088,287 tourists visited only the city of Athens, the capital city.

In 2007, 8,090,021 tourists visited Greece.

The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south.

They came from central Asia

No. Greece is too cold for a rainforest.

Ancient Greece used to be today's America. They introduced "philosophy" which in today's world turned out to be Astronomy, philosophy, biology, and etc. They put forth knowledge unto the world. Their methods to determine time using the sundial and finding a way to record the numerical system. They created so much and contributed so much unto the world. Read about greek mythodology and maybe about Socrates and plato. maybe google it? it might be easier. Ancient Greece (or Achaea as they called themselves) was the founder of modern Western culture and thought. Also without them, the unstoppable juggernaut of the Persian Empire would have taken over Europe, and Western culture would be very similar to the Middle East.

boody hole

The volcano is situated on a small island (Nea Kameni) from the Santorini archipelago, in the South Aegean Sea; 36024' North latitude and 25024' East longitude. The island is part of insular Greece (some 200 km away from the Greece mainland and 110 km north of Crete).

Santorini (ancient name was Thira) is one of the most beautiful Greek islands.

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The most important is the orthodox church. In the middle-age: the fight against the Turks invaders. Greeks have influenced the culture of the populations in Romania since antiquity (700 b. C.). The Romanian language has some words of Greek origin. Romanians and Greeks like to drink wines, to sing, to dance. Many habits and foods are common. The physical aspect of the two peoples is very similar. Romanians prefer Greece as tourist destination - more than 300 000 tourist last year.

a Greek temple used to shelter a god's statue

DEMETER because the person w/ the green thumb is also the mother of persephone

This island is Cyprus.

Xerxes

Between Greece and Crete there lie the islands of Kythera and Antikythera.

In Ancient Greece Kythera was considered the island of Aphrodite, the goddess of love. Quite close south west of Kythera is the Calypso Deep, lying in the Ionian Sea, the deepest point of the Mediterranean Sea (5,267 meters).

The small island of Antikythera is well known for the ancient ship wreck that was found there in 1902, unveiling the Antikythera Mechanism.

Kythera and Antikythera also form the borderline between the Ionian Sea and the Aegean Sea.

More information on the certain areas can be found via the Related Links.

The natural lakes of Greece are - Lake Cercinitis Lake Doirani, eastern portion Lake Dystos, presently largely drained Lake Ioannina Lake Kastoria, near Kastoria Lake Karla, near Volos Lake Koronia Lake Kourna Lake Lagkada Lake Lamia Lake Lysimacha Lake Mitrikou Lake Morfi Lake Ozeros Lake Prespa Little Lake Prespa, southeastern portion Lake Saltini Lake Stymfalia Lake Taka Lake Trichonida Lake Vegoritida Lake Voivis Lake Voulismeni Lake Voulkaria Lake Vólvi Lake Yliki

Athens
The largest city in Greece is Athens. It is home to the ancient Acropolis, one of the most significant structures in the country and a major tourist attraction.

According to Santa's net-Greek Christmas, the main symbol of the season in Greek homes is a shallow wooden bowl with a wire across the top, on which rests a sprig of basil wrapped around a wooden cross dangling in Holy Water. The basil is dipped in the Holy Water once daily and sprinkled in each room of the house to ward off kallikantzeri or mischievous goblins that appear during the 12 days of Christmas.

But the site also claims that an evergreen is decorated with tinsel and a star on top in most Greek homes, and baking baklava is another tradition.

The Christopsomo (Christmas bread) is sometimes decorated with pieces of dough formed into representations of the family's life (boats, farm animals, olive trees or what have you...). Often it remains undecorated. Easter bread, on the other hand, is symbolically decorated with red eggs, and New Year's bread is decorated with the number of the new year spelled out in almonds and cloves.

The Marathon.