Anthropology as it emerged amongst the Western colonial powers ( mentioned above ) has generally taken a different path than that in the countries of southern and central Europe ( Italy, Greece, and the successors to the Austro-Hungarian and Ottoman empires ).

Ammonius asks Plutarch what he, being a Boeotian, has to say for Cadmus, the Phoenician who reputedly settled in Thebes and introduced the alphabet to Greece, placing alpha first because it is the Phoenician name for ox — which, unlike Hesiod, the Phoenicians considered not the second or third, but the first of all necessities.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Aphrodite also has many other local names, such as Acidalia, Cytherea and Cerigo, used in specific areas of Greece.

Within the later tradition of Western Civilization and classical revival the Acropolis, from at least the mid-18th century on, has often been invoked as a key symbol of the Greek legacy and of the glories of Classical Greece.

The ASROC has been deployed on scores of warships of many other navies, including Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Republic of China, Greece, Pakistan and others.

Since 1996, Greece has an embassy in Sarajevo.

The division of Cyprus has remained an intractable political problem plaguing relations between Greece and Turkey, and drawing in NATO, of which both Greece and Turkey are members, and latterly the European Union, which has admitted Greece and Cyprus and which Turkey has been seeking to join for over twenty years.

Traditionally Greece has been major export and import partner of Cyprus.

Cyprus has historically followed a non-aligned foreign policy, although it increasingly identifies with the West in its cultural affinities and trade patterns, and maintains close relations with Greece.

Crete has a lot of football clubs playing in the local leagues: OFI Crete, which plays at Theodoros Vardinogiannis Stadium ( Iraklion ), and Ergotelis F. C., which plays at the Pankritio Stadium ( Iraklion ) are both members of Superleague Greece.

The Independent Greeks, a newly formed political party in Greece has also supported conservatism, particularly national and religious conservatism.

Couscous is also very popular in France, where it is now considered a traditional dish, and has also become popular in Spain, Portugal, Italy, and Greece.

From the time of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, this fact has been addressed by empires adopting the concept of universalism, and applying it to their imperial policies towards their subjects far from the imperial capitol.

In Greece, he encountered an Ionian theologian, who has been identified as Athenagoras of Athens ; while in the east, he was taught by an Assyrian, sometimes identified with Tatian, and a Jew, who was possibly Theophilus of Caesarea.

Desertification has played a significant role in human history, contributing to the collapse of several large empires, such as Carthage, Greece, and the Roman Empire, as well as causing displacement of local populations.

Due in part to the re-establishment of official ties between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate, the Orthodox Church of Greece ( Holy Synod in Resistance ) has broken ecclesial communion with ROCOR, but the converse has not happened.

Hero will come along, and they will stow away on a ship headed for Greece.

Fifteen percent of all arrivals in Greece come through the city of Heraklion ( port and airport ), while charter journeys to Heraklion last year made up 20 % of all charter flights in Greece.

The resulting Goudi coup on 15 August 1909 marked a watershed in modern Greek history: as the military conspirators were inexperienced in politics, they asked Venizelos, who had impeccable liberal credentials, to come to Greece as their political adviser.

In the time of ancient Greece and the Roman Empire, naval warfare centered on long, narrow vessels powered by banks of oarsmen ( such as triremes and quinqueremes ) designed to ram and sink enemy vessels or come alongside the enemy vessel so its occupants could be attacked hand-to-hand.

Many Spanish proverbs have a long history of cultural diffusion ; there are proverbs, for example, that have their origin traced to Babylon and that have come down to us through Greece and Rome ; equivalents of the Spanish proverb “ En boca cerrada no entran moscas ” ( Silence is golden ) belong to the cultural tradition of many north-African countries as far as Ethiopia ; having gone through multiple languages and millennia, this proverb can be traced back to an ancient Babylonian proverb.

There has also been, mostly under the Osmanli occupation of Greece and Cyprus, an " idiorrhythmic " lifestyle where monks come together but being able to own things individually and not being obliged to work for the common good.

These Greeks served as soldiers, artisans, statesmen and mariners for Darius ; however, Greek fear of the strength of Darius's kingdom became strong and the constant interference by the Greeks in Ionia and Lydia were all stepping stones in the conflict that was yet to come between Persia and Greece.

Timoleon invites new settlers from Greece to come to Sicily.

Two years later, in autumn 1446, Sultan Murad II who had come out of retirement, led an army of 50 – 60, 000 soldiers into Greece to put an end to the pretensions of Constantine.

Walter Burkert questions whether Adonis had not from the very beginning come to Greece with Aphrodite.

She would have done the same or worse to her son, had Zeus not hidden Arcas in an area of Greece that would come to be called Arcadia, in his honor.

For since well-nigh all the people of Greece had come together and formed themselves in opposing lines, there was no one who did not suppose that if a battle were fought, those who proved victorious would be the rulers and those who were defeated would be their subjects ; but the deity so ordered it that both parties set up a trophy as though victorious and neither tried to hinder those who set them up, that both gave back the dead under a truce as though victorious, and both received back their dead under a truce as though defeated, and that while each party claimed to be victorious, neither was found to be any better off, as regards either additional territory, or city, or sway, than before the battle took place ; but there was even more confusion and disorder in Greece after the battle than before.

The southern boundary is not mentioned ; however, Apis is said to have come to Argos from Naupactus " across " ( peras ), implying that Argos includes all of east Greece from the north of Thessaly to the Peloponnesian Argos, where the Danaids are probably to be conceived as having landed.

The southern boundary is not mentioned ; however, Apis is said to have come to Argos from Naupactus " across " ( peras ), implying that Argos includes all of east Greece from the north of Thessaly to the Peloponnesian Argos, where the Danaids are probably to be conceived as having landed.

Much of the information on the Greek plants may have come from his own observations, as he is known to have travelled throughout Greece, and to have had a botanical garden of his own ; but the works also profit from the reports on plants of Asia brought back from those who followed Alexander the Great:

The larger tombs contained amongst the richest finds to have come from the Late Bronze Age of Mainland Greece, despite the tombs having been pillaged both in antiquity and more recently.

The Clouds arrive singing majestically of the regions whence they arose and of the land they have now come to visit, loveliest in all Greece.

He thus came to the foot of the Hungarian hill, and after concealing his troops, he sent messengers to Askold and Dir, representing himself as a stranger on his way to Greece on an errand for Oleg and for Igor ', the prince ’ s son, and requesting that they should come forth to greet them as members of their race.

Greece had at this point been at war for eight continuous years: World War I had come and gone, yet no sign of an enduring peace was near.

“ Ethnographic examples ‘ third genders ’ can come from distinct societies located in Thailand, Polynesia, Melanesia, Native America, western Africa, and elsewhere and from any point in history, from Ancient Greece, to sixteenth century England to contemporary North America.

Greek Orthodox Churches dot both the villages and towns of Greece and come in a variety of architectural forms, from older Byzantine churches, to more modern white brick churches, to newer cathedral-like structures with evident Byzantine influence.

During the 20th century, after the creation of the Albanian nation-state, Arvanites in Greece have come to dissociate themselves much more strongly from the Albanians, stressing instead their national self-identification as Greeks.

Following the Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922, all remaining ethnic Anatolian Greeks were forced out during the 1923 population exchange between Greece and Turkey.

The Second Balkan War broke out on 29 ( 16 ) June 1913 when Bulgaria attacked its erstwhile allies in the First Balkan War, Serbia and Greece, while Montenegro, Romania and the Ottoman Empire intervened later against Bulgaria.

Census takes place every 10 years and is carried out by the National Statistical Service of Greece.

Detail of Galerius attacking Narseh on the Arch and Tomb of Galerius # Arch of Galerius | Arch of Galerius at Thessaloniki, Greece, the city where Galerius carried out most of his administrative actions

It described how the National Intelligence Organization of Turkey ( MIT ) had formed two teams: one which carried out bombings at tourist sites on Crete and other parts of Greece and another which was responsible for starting the wildfires.

Dining out is common in Greece, and has been for quite some time.

The period known as classical antiquity began with the rise of the city-states of Ancient Greece out of the Greek Dark Ages.

In fact Herodotus was in the habit of seeking out information from empowered sources within communities, such as aristocrats and priests, and this also occurred at an international level, with Periclean Athens becoming his principal source of information about events in Greece.

The Greeks held out in the Peloponnese until 1460, and the Venetians and Genoese clung to some of the islands, but by 1500 most of the plains and islands of Greece were in Ottoman hands.

When war broke out between Russia and the Ottomans in 1877, Greek popular sentiment rallied to Russia's side, but Greece was too poor, and too concerned of British intervention, to officially enter the war.

Thus, when World War II broke out in September 1939, Greece remained neutral.

Furthermore, thousands of Chams ( Tsams, Albanians living in Northern Greece ) were driven out of Greece with the justification that they had collaborated with the Nazis.

All Julian could do was sit it out in Naissus, the city of Constantine's birth, waiting for news and writing letters to various cities in Greece justifying his actions ( of which only the letter to the Athenians has survived in its entirety ).

The borders of Albania again became the cause of international conflict when Italian General Enrico Tellini and four of his assistants were ambushed and killed on 24 August 1923 while marking out the newly decided border between Greece and Albania.

A revolt which broke out in Greece, mainly on religious grounds, was crushed by the imperial fleet in 727.

* 1944 – Athens, Greece, is liberated by British Army troops entering the city as the Wehrmacht pulls out during World War II.

He was hurried out of Rome and conveyed first to Naxos, Greece, and subsequently to Constantinople, where he arrived on 17 September 653.

The history of privatization dates from Ancient Greece, when governments contracted out almost everything to the private sector.

Competitive running grew out of religious festivals in various areas such as Greece, Egypt, Asia, and the East African Rift in Africa.

Anarchist and autonomist squats in Greece engage with the local community by hosting cultural events, political talks, printing posters and announcements, or going out to the local community's square and holding events there, such as movie screenings, music gigs, talks, or offering free food, books, clothes, or children's toys.

Under the agreement, most members of the sizable Greek-speaking community of western Turkey were forced to resettle in Greece, while the majority of the Turkish-speaking residents of Thrace who were not forced out during the Balkan wars were removed to Turkey.

Meanwhile, existing victorious Allies such as France, Belgium, Italy, Greece and Romania gained territories, while new states were created out of the collapse of Austria-Hungary and the Russian and Ottoman Empires.

* Stilicho drives the Visigoths out of Greece and Macedonia.