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Greece was diplomatically isolated and vulnerable, as the Corfu incident of 1923 showed, and the economical foundations of the state were in ruins, after a decade of war and the sudden increase of the country's population by a quarter.
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Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.
Greece was one of the highlights of our trip, but beginning in Greece and continuing around the world throughout Southeast Asia the treatment of animals was horrifying, ranging from callous indifference to active cruelty.
The failure of Greece to reach the imperial destiny that Periclean Athens had seemed to promise was almost directly attributable to her physical conformation.
The plan for eliminating traffic hazards for pedestrians was developed by Dr. Constantinos A. Doxiadis, former Minister of Reconstruction in Greece and a consulting planner for the New Eastwick Corp..
-- Greece and West Germany have ratified an agreement under which Germany will pay $28,700,000 to Greek victims of Nazi persecution, it was announced today.
In Greece, there was since the 19th century a science of the folklore called laographia ( laography ), in the form of " a science of the interior ", although theoretically weak ; but the connotation of the field deeply changed after World War II, when a wave of Anglo-American anthropologists introduced a science " of the outside ".
In archaic Greece he was the prophet, the oracular god who in older times was connected with " healing ".
In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil.
It is more probable that this art was introduced later from Anatolia and regenerated an existing oracular cult that was local to Delphi and dormant in several areas of Greece.
The inspiration oracular cult was probably introduced into Greece from Anatolia, which is the origin of Sibyl, and where existed some of the oldest oracular shrines.
The normal method of calculation in ancient Rome, as in Greece, was by moving counters on a smooth table.
In Greece, the script was modified to add the vowels, giving rise to the ancestor of all alphabets in the West.
From the neolithic age Asia Minor was the route of the forward-Asiatic cultural stream which moved from the Near East to the west and spread the agriculture to the east coasts of Greece and Crete during the 5th millennium BC and then to the Balkan region and the whole of Europe.
The Hittites smelted rather brittle iron from the 15th century BC and the new metal was introduced in Greece.
Alexis Carrel was also a member of learned societies in the U. S., Spain, Russia, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Vatican City, Germany, Italy and Greece and received honorary doctorates from Queen's University of Belfast, Princeton University, California, New York, Brown University and Columbia University.
By classical Greece and Rome, the reduction of words to single letters was still normal, but can default.
Historically, her cult in Greece was imported from, or influenced by, the cult of Astarte in Phoenicia.
Kythira was a stopping place for trade and culture between Crete and the Peloponesus, so these stories may preserve traces of the migration of Aphrodite's cult from the Middle East to mainland Greece.
Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia (), was a city of ancient Greece on the site of modern Arta.
Assault in Ancient Greece was normally termed hubris.
Greece and diplomatically
Both Greece and Turkey recognized the State of Israel in the late 1940s, but were diplomatically represented in Tel Aviv on lower-than-embassy levels.
He advocated that the USA be the first nation to diplomatically recognize Greece.
To this end, Britain diplomatically encouraged Turkey to agitate Greece.
Greece and isolated
Certain religious beliefs were mixed with the beliefs of the local populations as it appears in the old cults of isolated Arcadia which survived up to classical Greece.
With his parents and siblings in exile, Alexander found himself isolated by the new strongmen of Greece.
* R. r. balcanica ( Balkan chamois ): Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, northern Greece ( The Pindus Mountains ), Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, Montenegro, and Slovenia ( isolated populations )
Geographical barriers to travel and communication kept the Tsakonians relatively isolated from the rest of Greece until the 19th century, although there was some trade between the coastal towns.
The rise of mass education and improved travel beginning after the Greek War of Independence meant that fluent Tsakonian speakers were no longer as isolated from the rest of Greece and there began a rapid decline from an estimated figure of some 200, 000 fluent speakers to the present fluent core estimated in the hundreds.
Finally, with the advance of the Red Army and the desertion of Romania and Bulgaria, the Germans were forced to evacuate mainland Greece in October 1944, although isolated garrisons remained in Crete, the Dodecanese and various other Aegean islands until the end of the war in May 1945.
Greece, on the other hand, perceives the presence of the Aegean Army as a threat to its islands, citing strong offensive capabilities ascribed to the Aegean Army as well as the exposed and isolated geographical position of the islands as reasons of concern.
most isolated regions of Greece, is quickly becoming a hot tourist destination, as the area's beauty is reminiscent of the Alps of Austria and Switzerland.
The inscriptions demonstrate that Hellenism in Upper Macedonia was at a high economic, artistic, and cultural level by the 6th century BC, overturning the notion that Upper Macedonia was culturally and socially isolated from the rest of ancient Greece.
After the defeat of the Democratic Army of Greece, he fled to SFRY in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, in the city of Bitola, where he died in 1956, isolated and disgraced.
Greece and vulnerable
The lower course of the river Maritsa, where it forms the border of Greece and Turkey, is very vulnerable to flooding.
Greece and Corfu
Kumquats are cultivated in China, South Korea, North Korea, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan, the Middle East, Europe ( notably Corfu, Greece ), southern Pakistan, and the southern United States ( notably Florida, Louisiana, Alabama ) and California.
File: KoumQuatLiqueur. jpg | Koum Quat liqueurs from Corfu, Greece
Thunderstorms or heavy rain may cause agricultural damages. Record high: 45. 4C ,( 113F ) ( Jule 2000 ), record low :- 21. 6 C ,(- 6. 88f ), January 1968. Larissa receives only 450mm of rain per year, but Corfu for example receives 1080mm of rain per year, because the mountais of Pindos create a rainshadow for the eastern coast of Greece.
Passenger ferries from Durrës sail to Trieste, Ancona, Otranto, Brindisi, Bari, Genoa ( Italy ), Zadar, Dubrovnik ( Croatia ), Koper ( Slovenia ), Bar ( Montenegro ), Corfu ( Greece ) and others.
* April 18 – Maria Desylla-Kapodistria is elected mayor of Corfu and becomes the first female mayor in Greece.
* Corfu City, Greece, since 1996
The Ionian Sea, as seen from Corfu Island, Greece, and with Saranda, Albania in the background
Corfu was eventually ceded by the British Empire along with the remaining islands of the United States of the Ionian Islands, and unification with modern Greece was concluded in 1864 under the Treaty of London.
The north-eastern coastline of Corfu lies off the coast of Sarandë, Albania, from which it is separated by straits varying in width from 3 to 23 km ( 2 to 15 mi ), while the south-east side of the island lies off the coast of Thesprotia, Greece.
In Greece, cricket is unique to Corfu, as it was once a British protectorate.
Will Durant claims that Corfu owed to the Republic of Venice the fact that it was the only part of Greece never conquered by the muslim Turks.
A Corfu clergyman and scholar, Nikephoros Theotokis ( 1732 – 1800 ) became renowned in Greece as an educator, and in Russia ( where he moved later in his life ) as an Orthodox archbishop.
In 1923, after a diplomatic dispute with Greece, Italian forces bombarded and occupied Corfu.
They administered Corfu and the Ionian islands as a separate entity from Greece until September 1943, following Benito Mussolini's orders of fulfilling Italian Irredentism and making Corfu part of the Kingdom of Italy.
On the first Sunday of November 1941, high school students from all over Corfu took part in student protests against the occupying Italian army ; these student protests of the island were among the first acts of overt popular Resistance in occupied Greece and a rare phenomenon even by wartime European standards.
Corfu was liberated by British troops, specifically the 40th Royal Marine Commando, which landed in Corfu on 14 October 1944, as the Germans were evacuating Greece.
In 1956 Maria Desylla Kapodistria, relative of first Governor of Greece Ioannis Kapodistrias, was elected mayor of Corfu and became the first female mayor in Greece.
Aside from being a leading centre for the Fine Arts, Corfu is also the home of the Ionian Academy, an institution carrying through and strengthening the tradition of Greek education while the rest of Greece was still fighting Turkish occupation.
In the modern era, beginning with its massive student protests during World War II against fascist occupation, and continuing in the fight against the dictatorship of Georgios Papadopoulos ( 1967 – 1974 ), students in Corfu have played a vanguard role in protesting in favour of freedom and democracy in Greece, setting themselves against both internal and external oppression.
Donated by Maria Desylla Kapodistria, grand niece of Ioannis Kapodistrias, former mayor of Corfu and first female mayor of Greece.
Alexandra returned from visiting her brother, King George I of Greece, in Corfu a week later on 5 May.
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