A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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... miles and from north to south it is the same . But in Greece travel is measured by the time it takes and not by miles or kilo- meters . Often you go by small boat ( caique , pronounced kah - EEK ) or on rough and winding roads . The ...
... miles and from north to south it is the same . But in Greece travel is measured by the time it takes and not by miles or kilo- meters . Often you go by small boat ( caique , pronounced kah - EEK ) or on rough and winding roads . The ...
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... mile Corinth Canal separates it from the mainland . The Peloponnesus was one of the first inhabited areas of Greece and is still one of the most attractive to the visitor . Here you will find the classical archaeological sites of ...
... mile Corinth Canal separates it from the mainland . The Peloponnesus was one of the first inhabited areas of Greece and is still one of the most attractive to the visitor . Here you will find the classical archaeological sites of ...
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... miles long and has 7,000 - foot mountains . Its coastal areas produce magnificent oranges , olive oil , and other foodstuffs . Near the southwest coast of Turkey are the Dodecanese Islands , largest of which is Rhodes . These islands ...
... miles long and has 7,000 - foot mountains . Its coastal areas produce magnificent oranges , olive oil , and other foodstuffs . Near the southwest coast of Turkey are the Dodecanese Islands , largest of which is Rhodes . These islands ...
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... mile along a country road without sighting a tiny roadside chapel or ayasma . These little whitewashed churches , hardly big enough in most cases to house an automobile , are usually perched high on a rocky crag or hilltop com- manding ...
... mile along a country road without sighting a tiny roadside chapel or ayasma . These little whitewashed churches , hardly big enough in most cases to house an automobile , are usually perched high on a rocky crag or hilltop com- manding ...
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... Olympió Tripolis SUS Delphi Gulf of Corinth ATTICA Corinth Ma Athens Mycenge COTONNE Argo GREECE 0 50 100 SCALE OF MILES 200 MEDITERRANEAN Sparta Milos SEA S Evros VIA BULGARIA Kavalla THRACE Alexandroupolisy Thasos Samothraki Limnos Volas.
... Olympió Tripolis SUS Delphi Gulf of Corinth ATTICA Corinth Ma Athens Mycenge COTONNE Argo GREECE 0 50 100 SCALE OF MILES 200 MEDITERRANEAN Sparta Milos SEA S Evros VIA BULGARIA Kavalla THRACE Alexandroupolisy Thasos Samothraki Limnos Volas.
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Acropolis American ancient Greek areas of Greece Army Athenian Athens Athens area Attica city-state civilization color Constitution Square Corfu Corinth Corinth Canal costumes Crete dance Delos Delphi developed drachmas drams Easter Edirne EE-ko-see EE-me EN-a English Greek famous film fish frontier goats Goddess Greece's Greek National Greek servicemen Greek soldier Greek TEE Gulf of Corinth Ionian Sea Iraklion isles of Greece ka-lee Kavalla Khalkis KHER-et-e Kifissia kilometer King Paul land Larissa Macedonia Marathon meters miles modern Greek monasteries Mount Athos Mount Lycabettus mountain Museum Mycenae Mykonos noncoms NOTES NOTES NOTES olive Olympia Orthodox Church ouzo Parthenon Patras pee-ye-NEM-e Peloponnesus peninsula PO-so POO EE-ne Queen Frederika restaurant Rhodes road Royal Hellenic Salonika southern Greece Spartans stremma summer tavernas TEE EE-ne tee O-ra things Turkey Turkish United Usually villages Western wine winter word YA-soo
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Page 18 - The isles of Greece ! the isles of Greece ! "Where burning Sappho loved and sung, — Where grew the arts of war and peace, Where Delos rose, and Phoebus sprung ! Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all, except their sun, is set.
Page 47 - Must we but blush? Our fathers bled. Earth! render back from out thy breast A remnant of our Spartan dead! Of the three hundred grant but three To make a new Thermopylae ! What, silent still?
Page 30 - We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece. But for Greece — Rome, the instructor, the conqueror, or the metropolis, of our ancestors, would have spread no illumination with her arms, and we might still have been savages and idolaters...
Page 53 - Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh, give me back my heart! Or, since that has left my breast, Keep it now, and take the rest! Hear my vow before I go, ZtoT) p,ou, ads d^aira>. By those tresses unconfined, Woo'd by each /Egean wind; By those lids whose jetty fringe Kiss thy soft cheeks...
Page 48 - For one thing is certain; there never was a great people that did not venerate the law. What gave Sparta her long supremacy among the states of Greece? What, indeed, but her inflexible — you might almost call it her blind and unreasoning — fidelity to law? "Stranger, go tell the Spartans that we lie here in obedience to their laws.