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The Kingdom of Greece was dissolved in 1924 and the Second Hellenic Republic was established following Greece's defeat by Turkey in the Asia Minor Campaign. A military coup d'état restored the monarchy in 1935 and Greece became a kingdom again until 1973.
Vassals of the Kingdom of Jerusalem; County of Tripoli (1102–1289): crusader state with a partly Greek population; County palatine of Cephalonia and Zakynthos (1185–1479): as a vassal of the Kingdom of Sicily with an ethnic Greek majority; Kingdom of Cyprus (1192–1489): crusader state with an ethnic Greek majority and partly Greek dynasty
Date/Time Thumbnail Dimensions User Comment; current: 10:27, 27 December 2019: 730 × 959 (469 KB): Cplakidas: corrections: N. Epirus was not occupied in 1918-23, but in 1912-14 and 1914-16; eastern Aegean islands were assigned only at the Protocol of Florence in 1914.
With a total length of about 2,320 km (1,440 mi) as of 2020, Greece's motorway network is the most extensive in Southeastern Europe and one of the most advanced in Europe, [271] including the east–west A2 (Egnatia Odos) in northern Greece, the north–south A1 (Athens–Thessaloniki–Evzonoi, AThE) along the mainland's eastern coastline and ...
A 1558 version of the map. Totius Graeciae Descriptio refers to an early antiquarian map of Greece drawn by Renaissance humanist Nikolaos Sophianos that became a cartographical bestseller of the late 16th century. It is eight pages and shows Greece from mythical times to the founding of the Eastern Roman Empire and the establishment of ...
The location of Greece An enlargeable map of Greece. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Greece: Greece – sovereign country located on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula in Southern Europe. [1] It borders Albania, Bulgaria, and North Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east.
The list includes all countries listed in the List of countries, the French overseas departments, the Spanish and Portuguese overseas regions and inhabited overseas dependencies. See List of extinct countries, empires, etc. and Former countries in Europe after 1815 for articles about countries that are no longer in existence.
The third-largest-city is Patras, with a metropolitan area of approximately 250,000 inhabitants. The table below lists the largest cities in Greece , by population size, using the official census results of 1991, [ 1 ] 2001, [ 2 ] 2011 [ 3 ] and 2021.