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Greece was the first area in Europe where advanced early civilizations emerged, beginning with the Cycladic civilization of the Aegean Sea, the Minoan civilization in Crete and then the Mycenaean civilization on the mainland. Later, city-states emerged across the Greek peninsula and spread to the shores of the Black Sea, South Italy and Asia Minor, reaching great levels of prosperity that resulted in an unprecedented cultural boom, that of classical Greece, expressed in architecture, drama, science and philosophy, and nurtured in Athens under a democratic environment.

Athens and Sparta led the way in repelling the Persian Empire in a series of battles. Both were later overshadowed by Thebes and eventually Macedonia, with the latter under the guidance of Alexander the Great uniting and leading the Greek world to victory over the Persians.

The Greek Islands are a collection of over 6,000 islands and islets that belong to Greece. Only 227 of the islands are inhabited, and only 78 of those have more than 100 inhabitants.

The largest Greek island by area is Crete, located at the southern edge of the Aegean Sea. The second largest island is Euboea, which is separated from the mainland by the 60m-wide Euripus Strait, and is administered as part of the central Greece periphery. After the third and fourth largest Greek Islands, Lesbos and Rhodes, the rest of the islands are two-thirds of the area of Rhodes, or smaller.

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Mount Athos monasteries
 
 

Mount Athos monasteries

Eastern Orthodox

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St. Panteleimon  Monastery
 
 

St. Panteleimon Monastery

Mount Athos

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Simonos Petra Monastery
 
 

Simonos Petra Monastery

Mount Athos

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Boat Trip
 
 

Boat Trip

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Wandering a Greek Island Streets
 
 

Wandering a Greek Island Streets

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Fish  Market
 
 

Fish Market

Athens

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St George Chapel
 
 

St George Chapel

Top of Mount Lycabettus

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Athens
 
 

Athens

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Athens
 
 

Athens

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