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[15] Monasteries of Daphni, Hosios Loukas and Nea Moni of Chios: Central Greece, Attica, North Aegean: 1990 537; i, iv (cultural) These three monasteries, although located in different parts of Greece, are representative examples of the middle period of Byzantine religious architecture and they share the same aesthetic characteristics.
Greece is the European Union's largest producer of cotton [249] and pistachios (7,200 tons in 2021), [250] [251] second in olives (3m tons in 2021), third in figs (8,400 tons in 2022) and watermelons (440,000 tons in 2022) and fourth in almonds (40,000 tons in 2022). [251] Agriculture contributes 3.8% of GDP and employs 12% of the labour force.
Archaeological discoveries in 2006 by a team of international scientists revealed that the Santorini event was much more massive than previously thought; it expelled 61 km 3 (15 cu mi) of magma and rock into the Earth's atmosphere, compared to previous estimates of only 39 km 3 (9.4 cu mi) in 1991, [51] [52] [better source needed] producing an ...
The Food and Agriculture Organisation's food price index increases by 13% in March to an all-time record of 159.3 points amid fallout from the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The price of vegetable oils increases by 23% and the price of cereals increases by 17%. International relations
Flag of the 1822 Naousa revolution. Herodotus locates at the Naousa area "the fertile Gardens of King Midas, son of Gordios". [5] Although no ancient settlement has been identified in the current location of the city itself, numerous archaeological findings at the sites of Kopanos, Hariessa, and Lefkadia date back from the Bronze Age era to the Roman period. [6]
As of 2 March 2025, the Greek Wikipedia: [3] is 47th-largest by number of articles (247,109) has 22 administrators; has 445,625 registered users, of whom 993 were active; has 10,980,281 edits; As of May 2019, Greek Wikipedia is usually visited by 5,500,000 to 6,500,000 unique devices per month, [4] while the unique devices per day are ...
Delphi among the main Greek sanctuaries. Delphi (/ ˈ d ɛ l f aɪ, ˈ d ɛ l f i /; [1] Greek: Δελφοί), [a] in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the major oracle who was consulted about important decisions throughout the ancient classical world.
On 25 January 2022, the allocation draw was held at Palazzo Madama in Turin that placed each nation into one of the two semi-finals and determined which half of the show they would perform in. [26] Therein, it was announced that Greece was scheduled to perform in the second half of the first semi-final of the contest, to be held on 10 May 2022 ...