Angelos Charisteas ( first from left with white shirt ), scoring Greece's winner against Portugal in the final.

Despite being relatively unknown in Greece, the duo entered the national final to be Greece's representatives in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001 in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song "( I Would ) Die for You ", written by Nikos Terzis with lyrics by Antonis Pappas, placing joint first, but being named the winners by default as they had won the public vote.

Karagounis captained Greece's entry to the 1998 UEFA Under-21 Championship, and the team came very close to winning, losing 1 – 0 to Spain in the final.

The novels Niobe and Pelops: Children of Tantalus, Niobe and Amphion: The Road to Thebes and Niobe and Chloris: Arrows of Artermis by Victoria Grossack and Alice Underwood, set in Greece's Bronze Age, posit another solution to the Niobids ' cause of death.

Greece's first airmail stamps, known as the " Patagonia set ", were released in mid-October 1926.

On February 19, 2007, Septic Flesh announced a reunion for Greece's Metal Healing Festival featuring Orphaned Land, Rage and Aborted, set to take place July 20 – 22.

Greece's first commemorative stamps were issued in 1896 for the 1896 Summer Olympics, the first Olympic games in modern times.

In order to cover postal needs in these areas, Greece's government ordered existing stamps to be overprinted with ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΗ ΔΙΟIΚΗΣΙΣ ( Hellenic Administration ) until a planned 1912 issue became available.

Greece's first semi-postal stamps were produced during the occupation.

Following Greece's 1914 withdrawal and the founding of the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus, a number of stamps were released in the region.

Diogenes Laertius, after quoting a famous epigram by Cleobulus ( one of ancient Greece's ' seven sages ') in which a maiden sculptured on a tomb is imagined to proclaim her eternal vigilance, quotes Simonides commenting on it in a poem of his own: Stone is broken even by mortal hands.

Greek officers, revolting in August 1909, had secured the appointment of a progressive government under Eleftherios Venizelos which they hoped would resolve the Cretan issue in Greece's favour and reverse their defeat of 1897 by the Ottomans.

The Greek language ultimately dominated the peninsula and Greece's mosaic of small city-states became culturally similar.

On 24 January 2008, Greece's premier Costas Karamanlis visited Turkey a full 48 years after the last Greek premier and uncle of his Constantine Karamanlis had visited the neighboring country.

* 1974 – Konstantinos Karamanlis arrives in Greece following the collapse of the Greek military junta, beginning Greece's metapolitefsi era.

Santorini (, pronounced ), classically Thera (), and officially Thira ( Greek: Θήρα ), is an island in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland.

** The Greek ferry Express Samina sinks off the coast of the island of Paros ; 80 out of a total of over 500 passengers perish in one of Greece's worst sea disasters.

) – Greece's traditional Independence Day ( although more recent historical evidence suggests that the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire had started before this date ).

" Foreign persons of Greek origin ", who neither live in Greece nor hold Greek citizenship nor were necessarily born there, may become Greek citizens by enlisting in Greece's military forces, under article 4 of the Code of Greek Citizenship, as amended by the Acquisition of Greek Nationality by Aliens of Greek Origin Law ( Law 2130 / 1993 ).

The current Hellenic Republic has long challenged King Constantine's right to use his title ; in 1981, the then Greek President Konstantinos Karamanlis declined to attend the wedding of the Prince of Wales when it was revealed that Greece's deposed monarch, a cousin of the Prince, had been referred to as ' King ' in his invitation.

In line with these observations, Greece's former Minister of Tourism Aris Spiliotopoulos announced the opening of a Greek National Tourism Organization office in Shanghai by the end of 2010, and GNTO currently operates two tourism offices in China, one in Shanghai and one in Beijing.

As the Greek ambassador to Sofia had put it during the negotiations that led to Greece's entry in the League: " Greece can provide 600, 000 men for the war effort.

As the Greek ambassador to Sofia put it during the subsequent negotiations that led to Greece's entry in the League: " Greece can provide 600, 000 men for the war effort.

The next year the Greek government dissolved the insolvent Arab Hellenic Bank at a cost to Greece's Deposit Guarantee Fund of Euro 1. 5m in payments to depositors.

Among the most famous Zakynthians is the 19th century poet Dionysios Solomos, the principal modern Greek poet and author of Greece's national anthem.

* Ellada Exeis Talento ( Greece's Got Talent ) Greek reality program, talent competition entering its fourth season in 2012.

This outraged Greek public opinion, which saw the use of the symbol as an appropriation of Greece's historical heritage and as implying a territorial claim on Greece.

A financial protocol clause included in the treaty provided for loans to Greece subsidised by the community of about $ 300 million between 1962 and 1972 to help increase the competitiveness of the Greek economy in anticipation of Greece's full membership.

At the Greek legislative election, 1981, PASOK won a landslide victory over the conservative New Democracy Party, and Papandreou became Greece's first socialist Prime Minister.

After Greece's liberation in 1944, RHAF returned home and subsequently played a decisive role in the Greek Civil War, which lasted until 1949, re-equipped with Spitfire Mk IX, Spitfire Mk XVI fighters and Curtiss Helldiver bombers.

The Greek portion is a valley which is dominant in agriculture, being Greece's fourth biggest valley.

The identity of the threesome is neatly underscored by a patriotic account of their roles during Greece's great victory over Persia at the Battle of SalamisAeschylus fought there, Sophocles was just old enough to celebrate the victory in a boys ' chorus and Euripides was born on the very day of the battle.

Mesut Yilmaz's admission sparked political outrage in Greece on Monday, causing Greece's Foreign Ministry spokesman Grigoris Delavekouras to say that the claims were “ serious and must be investigated ,” adding that Athens was awaiting a briefing from Ankara.

Venizelos was forced to default on Greece's national debt in 1932, and he fell from office after the 1932 elections, being succeeded by a monarchist coalition government led by Panagis Tsaldaris of the People's Party.

Greece's ethnic homogeneity was increased by the postwar expulsion of 25, 000 Albanians from Epirus ( see Cham Albanians ).

However, international recognition of the new country was delayed by Greece's objection to the use of what it considered a Hellenic name and national symbols, as well as controversial clauses in the Republic's constitution.

The academy was founded in 1824, forty years before the cession of the Ionian islands to Greece, and just three years after Greece's Revolution of 1821.

In 2007, Algeria was ranked 6th among Greece's Arab trade partners.

This indicates the possibility that the lyre might have existed in one of Greece's neighboring countries, either Thrace, Lydia, or Egypt, and was introduced into Greece at pre-classic times.

The most renowned of the Perseides was Greece's greatest hero, Heracles.

The vague plan he and his advisors had conceived was to form a unit that would advance to Thessaloniki ( Greece's second biggest city and unofficial capital of northern Greece ) and take it.

When World War I broke out, Constantine was faced with the difficulty of determining where Greece's support lay.

Throughout Greece's eventful modern history, the monarchy was toppled and restored several times between and after the two World Wars.

In 1832, Greece's nascent experiment with democracy was ended and a monarchy was established with the underage Bavarian Prince Otto as king.

This fact was readily appreciated by the Serbs and Bulgarians, and was the chief factor in initiating the process of Greece's inclusion in their alliance.

Venizelos, seeing no improvements after his approach with the Turks on the Cretan Question and at the same time not wanting to see Greece remain inactive as in the Russo-Turkish War in 1877 ( where Greece's neutrality left the country out of the peace talks ), he decided that the only way to settle the disputes with Turkey, was to join the other Balkan countries, Serbia, Bulgaria and Montenegro, in an alliance known as the Balkan League.

Thessaloniki was the home of Greece's first non-state owned television station, TV100, owned by the City of Thessaloniki, and TV Plus was the first non-state television station in the Athens region.

Karamanlis was convinced that Greece's membership in the EEC would ensure political stability in a nation having just undergone a transition from dictatorship to Democracy.

During the political crisis surrounding Greece's entry into World War I, Papandreou was one of Venizelos's closest supporters against the pro-German King Constantine I.

And after the end of the military regime in 1974, Dhimotiki was made into Greece's only standard language ( 1976 ).

As part of the Holocaust, Greece's Jewish community was almost wiped out.