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Greece
Greece is a country made up of many islands. It has a rich history filled with gods, goddesses, wars, tragedies, romances, and some of the best myths of all time. Questions in this section can include things about current or ancient Greece.
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Can you hire a mobility scooter in Rhodes?
As of last year NO...... I took my own small scooter out last year & am going again with it next week ....
People look at you as though you are in a space ship....
The Taxi drivers are great ...
Pavements are poor no ramps..
But all in all if you have your own car boot scooter its no bother taking your own
How did the Persian War affect life in ancient Greece?
After the Persian invasion was defeated, the Greeks were free to resume their internal fighting, culminating in what is now called the Peloponnesian War, which wrought great distruction throughout the Greek world: its successful conclusion by Sparta's Peloponnesian league over Athen's empire was made possible by Persian support. The weakened Greek states continued to weaken themselves paving the way for rising Macedonia to dominate mainland Greece and offer its king Phillip II the prospect of taking over the Persian empire to end any future Persian threat. His death left this project to his son Alexander. Alexander's takeover of the Persian empire set the scene for Greek culture to spread from Spain to today's Pakistan.
Alexander's victorious progression through the Persian Empire was followed by a swarm of Greek carpetbaggers taking advantage of the commercial opportunities on offer. In consequence a form of Greek called Koine became the commercial lingua franca of the Middle East, overlaying the general lingua fanca of Aramaic.
Alexander and his successors also had an inexhaustable appetite for soldiers, and the fit male population of mainland Greece flowed to Asia and Egypt. The population of mainland Greece was so depleted (from this and later internal and Roman wars) that in the 1st Century CE the historian Plutarch commented the you could not find 3,000 men-at-arms in all of Greece.
The Hellenistic kingdoms (those set up by Alexanders' successors in Greece, Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt) also used the Greek city-state model and Greek culture to establish control, order and social standards within their kingdoms. This civilising influence provided a veneer of political and cultural influence and stability which lasted until the progressive takeover by Islamic conquerors from 7th Century CE until the fall of Constantinople and end of the Byzantine Empire in the 15th Century.
And the Byzantine Empire was in fact the eastern Roman Empire - when the western Roman Empire was overrun from the 5th Century onwards, it lived on in the east - the Byzantines thought of themselves as Romans, but spoke Greek and continued Greek culture.
In religious influence, this widespread Greek culture readily provided the host for mystery cults as well as the formal state religions. Several such cults flourished - those of Mithras, Isis, Jesus etc. Emperor Constantine, although a Mithras initiate, selected Christianity as his state religion because it had a geographic heirarchy which he could use as a unifying and control tool throughout his empire.
What city-states dominated Greece after the Persian war 480-479?
After the defeat in 479 BCE of Mardonius' Persian forces and his Greek allies at Plataia, and destruction of the remaining Persian Phoenician-Greek-Egyptian naval forces at Mykale, the Spartans, as the dominant land power, and the Athenians as the dominant naval power, had different objectives. The Spartans advocated evacuation of the Greek population of Asia Minor back to mainland Greece to end the problem of having restive Greeks inside the Persian Empire. Athens wanted quite the reverse, thinking that its naval power could extend to protecting the Greek cities in the islands and Asia Minor in an anti-Persian federation.
This left the two at odds and the Spartans, naturally conservative, withdrew from the problem and left leadership against Persia to the more adventurous Athenians. As it turned out, the Spaetans were right, and the resolution of an ongoing problem of overseas Greeks was eventually effected 2,400 years later when the Greek population of Turkey was evacuated to Greece in 1923 DE after World War 1.
This left the Athenians organising an anti-Persian confederation. They levied ships from the cities of the islands and Asia Minor, but allowed them to pay a financial levy in lieu. Most cities (other than Samos, Chios and Lesbos) found it easier to pay rather than to provide ships, so Athens was able to sustain a dominant fleet, and used it to ensure that the levies were paid.
That led to what effectively became an Athenian empire. The Spartans meanwhile became the dominant land land power, with the Peloponnesian states siding as its allies. This progressively set up the growing confrontation which led to what has been dubbed the Peloponnesian War in 431 BCE - Sparta and its allies versus Athens and its allies (empire).
No, Peter Bull was not an actor or author known for writing a book called "It's Not All Greek To Me" about buying a house in Greece. This book was actually written by John Mole, detailing his experiences of buying a house in Greece. Peter Bull was a British character actor known for his roles in film and television.
Driving distance between Athens Greece and Delphi Greece?
Approx. 2 hrs. 30 mins, not including traffic.
What is one of the top ten Greek Islands?
One of the top ten Greek islands is Paros, the second biggest island of the Cyclades, it is very popular to European tourists.
What evidence is there of geography's movement of Mykonos Town on the Greek Island of Mykonos?
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What is the football stadium called in Santorini?
was in Kamari in September: an example is Kamari Football Ground. Another football stadium is near Fira, I don't remember exactly.
Does Greece have a good army and special forces?
yes Greece got very goood marines . russia marines are first usa second and greek third .
they are good beause they got soul
You must be mistaken,the British Royal Marines are the finest in the world,the best in the world.
Who led the unification of Greece following the Persian war?
Greece was not unified - it remained as several hundred independent city-states, some of which banded together in leagues which fought each other and changed members from time to time.
I know that they used to be up to 2006, but I'm not sure if they are anymore. The case is that you could buy them over the counter in pharmacies. Drug prescriptions in Greece serve only to the degree of lowering the price of drugs, so you can still buy anything without a prescription given that you are ready to pay the full price. (Not applying to special categories of drugs that can be used for malicious purposes)
What are the two most popular basketball teams in Greece Greece?
the greek national team and panathanaikos
On what type of landform is mainland Greece located?
Greece is made up of 3 peninsulas, the Balkan Peninsula, Attica, and Peleponnesus. At least that's what Ancient Greece was made up of.
What happens to the territory of Ottoman Macedonia after the Treaty of Bucharest expires?
Well, there was no ottoman macedonia. What is refered to as the regional Macedonia most often is the enlarged roman province of Macedonia, during Ottoman times this region were in fact 3 different regions.
As for expiration, it won't expire as there is no time limit to treaties as they are replaced by new ones or ripped up through war. And further the treaty of Bucharest is irrelevant due to the first world war and the treaty of Versaille replacing it.
Does Greece have a colussoeum?
Colosseum??I hope it's a funny question unless you are non European.......Rome has the Colosseum and the Pantheon and Greece has the Acropolis and the Parthenon(older than Colosseum)
What do rome and Greece have in common?
Ancient Greece and ancient Rome were both similar and different in many ways. For starters, they both had similar art and architecture. But Greece made their art and architecture more ornate and fancy. The Romans also used an alphabet similar to the Greeks. It was slightly changed, but Greek none the less. Another thing that the Romans had in common with Greece was their gods. Pretty much all the Roman gods were based off of the Greeks.
Hope this helped. :D
Were there any Jewish people who lived in Greece or Denmark some time ago?
Yes, in both countries. The Greek Jewish community was particularly large, especially in Halkidiki, Thessaloniki, and Smyrna (now Turkish Izmir). In the early 1700s, Thessaloniki was actually a majority-Jewish city. However, Greece today only has incidental Jewish populations (less than 1,000 individuals). Denmark never had a large Jewish community and numbers remained smaller than 10,000 Jews at nearly all points in Danish history. Today Denmark has an estimated Jewish population of roughly 8,000 individuals.
Both the Danish and Greek Jewish communities were almost completely eviscerated by the Holocaust. Thankfully, in the case of Denmark, this was because Christian Danes took great pains to help the Danish Jews escape to neutral Sweden and avoid the Holocaust. Some returned afterwards, but others chose to stay in Sweden or migrate elsewhere. The Greeks did not defend their fellow Jews that had fought side by side with them in every Greek War of Independence and in World War II. The Romaniot Jews (a unique Greek Jewish cultural group - as opposed to Ashkenazi or Sephardi) were completely eliminated. Some Turks like Selahattin Ülkümen on Rhodes were the few who rose in defense of Greek Jewry.
