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**﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ ﻿ Gr ﻿ e ﻿ e  ce﻿  ** media type="youtube" key="QpgHrSFsSGo?version=3" height="427" width="550" align="left" **Population:** 10,760, 136 People **Major Cities:** Athens, Tessaloniki, Larisa, Volos, Patrai, Irakleion, Sparti, and Pireas  **Area:** 50, 949 sq miles  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; overflow: hidden;">**Physical features:** Mediterranean Sea, Aegean Sea, Thermaikos Kolpos, and the Iionian Sea <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Natural Resources:** Lignite, petroleum, iron ore, bauxite, lead, zinc, nickel, magnesite, marble, salt, and hydropower potential <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">**Exports:** Feta cheese, olives, olive oil, Greek herbs, telecommunication hardware and software, pottery textiles, tobacco fruit, vegetables, clothing, alcoholic drinks/beverages, steel, and aluminum
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; overflow: hidden;">Fast Facts:<span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 50px; overflow: hidden;">[[image:http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRrIETABvTXfmKVU9r18e4v3wKlCmCazO-MJyYMNpkbSK4N02tq width="167" height="107" align="right" caption="Greece's Flag"]] **

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; overflow: hidden;">** Ph ﻿ y ﻿ sical ﻿ ﻿ Ge ﻿ ograp ﻿  ﻿ h ﻿ y: **  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">The country Greece is divided in three sections; the Mainland, Islands, and the Aegean Basin. Greece is bordered by many seas including the Aegean Sea on the East, Mediterranean Sea on the Southern border, and the Ionian Sea on the West. It is temperate and mild. It has wet winters and hot summers. It is mostly mountains with ranges extending into the sea as peninsulas or chains of islands. 80% of Greece is mountainous. The major mountain range in Greece is Mount Olympus. There is the Pindus which is also a chain of mountains. Greece also has volcanoes and some that are still active. Western Greece contains lakes, wetlands, and plains. Off the coast of G<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; overflow: hidden;"> reece is over 2,000 islands including Crete and Rhode. 20% of Greeks landmass is islands. They have deep valleys and rugged highlands. Greek's coastline is one of the longest in the world, which includes 15,000 kilometers of coastline. The lowest point is the Mediterranean Sea and the highest point is Mount. Olympus. Some features are the Parthenon Temple, Santorini, and the Sanctuary of Athena.

<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">**Athens** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; height: 160px; width: 212px;">  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Athens is the capital of Greece and the most populated. Its population is 3.252 million people. Athens goes back to 3000 BC and is known as the "Cradle fo Civilzation". Athens got its name by The Parthenon which is for Athena, a Greek god.They have major mathematical principles and created the orgins of theater. It is home of the first Olympic games which was held in 776 BC and then in 1896 and 2004. These Olympic games are taken very seriously. It is home of the gods which live on Mont Olympus. It has a acropolis, "Acro" meaning high, and "Polis" meaning city which the Parthenon is on. There has been a Sacred Hill where they honor gods and it still standswith all of the natural disasters it went through. It is on a peninsula that stretches southeast ward into the Aegean Sea. It is on the Plain of Attica, surrounded by three mountains which stretches around 15 square miles. The seaport in Athens is called Piraeus which is five miles away from the coastline. Some attractions are the Acropolis, Parthenon, National Archeological Museum, Cape Sounion, Temple of Posidion, Lycabettus Hill, Syntagma Square, Agora, Paka, Filopappos Hill, and the Temple of Olympian Zeus. <span style="background-color: #0000ff; color: #ffffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; overflow: hidden;">**Greek <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px; overflow: hidden;">﻿ ****Culture:** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;">﻿   __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; overflow: hidden;">Religion and Language: __  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">In Greece, the major religion ﻿is Greek Orthodox which is the Eastern Orthodox Chruch of Crist. It is 98% of the total religion. Muslim and other religions are the other 2%. 99% of them speak Greek. The other 1% speaks all different languages. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; overflow: hidden;">__Important Dates:__ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">They got there independence in 1829 from the Ottoman Empire. The national holiday is March 25, 1821. The constitution is on June 11, 1821. __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; overflow: hidden;">Transportation: __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">They have 81 airports, 9 heliports, 2,548 km of railroads, 117,533 km of roadways, 6 km of waterways. The ports and terminals are called Agioi, Theodoroi, Aspropygos, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki. __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; overflow: hidden;">Holidays: __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Easter an﻿d Holy Week are the most important holidays of the year. New Year is more festive than Christmas. For New Year, they have blue paper ships to symbolize the ship that brought St. Basil to Greece. For Easter, they hide a silver coin in the dough of a special bread spiced with sinnamo, nutmeg, and orange peel. Wealth comes to whoever finds the coin. Also, it is a tradition that they dye their eggs red. For Easter, a lot of people eat roasted lamb. Their birthdays is dedicated to the saint for whom they are named rather than the day of their birth. __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; overflow: hidden;">Living: __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">They ﻿live in flat roofed houses of stone or brick without running water or electricity. A basic family has a husband, wife, and their unmarried children. They live with their family until they are ready to buy their own houses. Feuds may develop over land, property, political power, or other issues and manifest themselves in insults, theft, and even murder.<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; overflow: hidden;">   __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; overflow: hidden;">Clothings: __  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">They w﻿ear western clothing. The traditional festival clothes are tunic, vest, and tights pants that are bound at the knee. There clothes are usually made of wool and linen. Kids wear a wrap till about their mid shorts. Men wear tunics, usually one side over their shoulder. Many people usually went barefoot for their whole life. Some wear leather sandols though. Greek women wear sheets wrapping it around their body and pinning it to make it stay. They could also wear a belt to make sure the sheet does not fly upwards. When it is cold men and women usually wore blankets made of wool to keep them warmer. __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; overflow: hidden;">Foods: __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Some herbs are thyme, basil, oregano, rosemary, rue, and sage. Lamb is the basic meat and olive oil predominates. Some staples are rice, meat, figs, shich kebab, feta cheese, and whole grain bread with meals. Typical Greek dish consists of ground meat with spices, rice, and herbs that are often rapped in leaves. Pastries are paper thin dough called filo that are usally eaten during the afternoon or late night snacks. Drinks are Ouzo, Retsina, and Yiassas. __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; overflow: hidden;">Education: __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Education has been affected by poverty and war a lot. Education is free and compulsory for nine years till 15. Three optional years in college or prepa﻿ratory or technical programs are free also. The college is very competitive. They teach the philosophical tea﻿ching is Socrates, Plate, and Aristotle. They were philosophical thinkers who thought of mathematical terms. Their ideas are still used today. Also, we could have built on their thinkings to create something better and easier. __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; overflow: hidden;">Farming and Agriculture: __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Some cash crops﻿ are grain, olives, cotton, tobacco, and fresh fruit. Usually people own less then ten aches of land and have less than ten workers. There are food and beverages, tobacco, textiles, clothings, metallurgy, chemical manufactuing, and shipbuilding. __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; overflow: hidden;">Sports: __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">The most popular sport is soccer. Other sports include basketball and volleyball. __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; overflow: hidden;">Olymic games: __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">The Olympic games originated from Greece. Some think that they made the Olympic games for Zeus, the king of all gods. Others think that they were playing for a sacred olive tree someone had brought there to Greece. __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 20px; overflow: hidden;">ABC's __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Greek were the first to create alphabets with vowel﻿s and all Greek alphabets have sound. __<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; overflow: hidden;">gods and goddesses:<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 25px; overflow: hidden;">media type="youtube" key="kuCvWAbAV0Q?version=3" height="265" width="322" align="right" __ <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Most Greeks are polytheistic and believed in many gods. The Olympian gods were the main deities in Ancient Greece. They have overthrown the Titans and became the rulers of the Cosmos representing the civilzation of the world. They wer majestically and democratically dwelling on Mount Olympus. Mount Olympus is the highest mountain in Greece. The leader of the gods was Zeus. These gods wer born and grew just like humans and some that are married. The only difference was they are unaging and death never came around. They had passions and human weaknesses, but they took on the full resopsibility of their actions. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Greek myths refer to the twelve gods of Mount Olympus. There are more Olympian Gods in Creek Mythology. The four alternative gods were Hestia, Hades, Dionysus, and Demeter. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Some gods and goddesses are Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Hades, Athena, Hermes, Aphrodite, Apollo, Artemis, Ares, Hephaestus, and Dionysus. **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 35px;">Diffe<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; height: 240px; width: 242px;"> r﻿ent ﻿Rates ** **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Life expectancy: ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Male:77.36  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Female: 82.65  **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Infant morality Rate: ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">5 deaths/ 1,000 births  **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Literacy Rate: ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Ages 15 and older can read and write  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Male: 97.8  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Female: 94.2  **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">School Life Expectancy: ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Total: 17  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">﻿Male: 16  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small;">Female: 17  **<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">For more information you can visit: ** <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">On this wiki:  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">**Casey-Greece**  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">**Shaye-Greece**  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Other Links:  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">**[|CIA-WorldFactbook Greece]**  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">Greek god links:  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">**[|gods and goddesses]**  <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: small; overflow: hidden;">