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Fauna of Greece may refer to: List of birds of Greece; List of mammals of Greece; List of reptiles of Greece; List of amphibians of Greece; See also. Outline of Greece
Fauna comes from the name Fauna, a Roman goddess of earth and fertility, the Roman god Faunus, and the related forest spirits called Fauns.All three words are cognates of the name of the Greek god Pan, and panis is the Modern Greek equivalent of fauna (πανίς or rather πανίδα).
This list shows the IUCN Red List status of the 115 mammal species occurring in Greece.Two of them are endangered, twelve are vulnerable, and six are near threatened.The following tags are used to highlight each species' status as assessed on the respective IUCN Red List published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature:
Endemic fauna of Greece (2 C, 155 P) I. Individual animals in Greece (2 P) Pages in category "Fauna of Greece" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 ...
Greek salad Traditional Greek taverna, integral part of Greek culture and cuisine. A bottle of retsina. Greek cuisine has a long tradition and its flavors change with the season and its geography. [12] Greek cookery, historically a forerunner of Western cuisine, spread its culinary influence – via ancient Rome – throughout Europe and beyond ...
A map of the ancient world centered on Greece. Based on the above definition, the "cores" of the Greco-Roman world can be confidently stated to have been the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea, specifically the Italian Peninsula, Greece, Cyprus, the Iberian Peninsula, the Anatolian Peninsula (modern-day Turkey), Gaul (modern-day France), the Syrian region (modern-day Levantine countries, Central ...
In ancient Greek religion and mythology, Pan (/ p æ n /; [2] Ancient Greek: Πάν, romanized: Pán) is the god of the wild, shepherds and flocks, rustic music and impromptus, and companion of the nymphs. [3]
Theatre is a means through which Pontians in Greece maintain a sense of cohesive cultural identity and remember their origins, specifically to resist the threat of complete assimilation into wider Greek culture. [227] This theatre tends to present a cohesive "pan-Pontic" identity and an idyllic view of village life. [227]