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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 ...
It comprises the western part of continental Greece and the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. It occupies an area of 11,336 km 2 (4,377 sq mi) and its population is, according to the 2011 census, at 679,796 inhabitants. [4] [5] The capital of the Western Greece is Patras, the third-largest-city in the country with a population of ...
4 constituent countries: 1 constituent country without devolution: England: Greater London: City of London: 25 wards: 32 London boroughs (including 1 city) areas 10,449 parishes [43] with some unparished areas: 6 metropolitan counties (covered by combined authorities) 36 metropolitan boroughs (a.k.a. metropolitan districts) 21 two-tier non ...
Greece is the birthplace of democracy, [4] Western philosophy, [5] the Olympic Games (for this reason, unless it is the host nation, it always leads the Parade of Nations in accordance with tradition begun at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics), Western literature and historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and ...
Nation-building is a long evolutionary process, and in most cases the date of a country's "formation" cannot be objectively determined; e.g., the fact that England and France were sovereign kingdoms on equal footing in the medieval period does not prejudice the fact that England is not now a sovereign state (having passed sovereignty to Great ...
Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. [5] It is bordered to the north by Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria; to the east by Turkey, and is surrounded to the east by the Aegean Sea, to the south by the Cretan and the Libyan seas, and to the west by the Ionian Sea which separates Greece from Italy.
The origins of Western civilization can be traced back to the ancient Mediterranean world. Ancient Greece [d] and Ancient Rome [e] are generally considered to be the birthplaces of Western civilization—Greece having heavily influenced Rome—the former due to its impact on philosophy, democracy, science, aesthetics, as well as building designs and proportions and architecture; the latter due ...
After 1833, Mani was integrated into the Kingdom of Greece. United States of the Ionian Islands (1815–1864): amical protectorate of the United Kingdom. Regional administrations during the Greek War of Independence (March 1821 – c. 1825): Messenian Senate (1821) Peloponnesian Senate (1821-1823) Senate of Western Continental Greece (1821-1823)