A Pocket Guide to GreeceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1953 - 92 pages |
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... population , the Greeks turned to foreign trade for food . They exported wine and olive oil and imported grain . They became the chief traders of the Eastern Mediterranean area , and great colonizers as well . By 600 B. C. , they had ...
... population , the Greeks turned to foreign trade for food . They exported wine and olive oil and imported grain . They became the chief traders of the Eastern Mediterranean area , and great colonizers as well . By 600 B. C. , they had ...
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... population consisted of slaves , who were not citizens . But it was the most advanced form of government the world had yet seen , Porch of the Maidens and 2,000 - year - old theater in Athens . Centuries - old burial jar and city ruins ...
... population consisted of slaves , who were not citizens . But it was the most advanced form of government the world had yet seen , Porch of the Maidens and 2,000 - year - old theater in Athens . Centuries - old burial jar and city ruins ...
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... population are Roman Catholic or of other Christian faiths , Jewish , or Moslem . The Catholics form sizable groups in the Cyclades Islands , notably Syra . Before 1940 , the Jewish element in Salonika was significant . However , the ...
... population are Roman Catholic or of other Christian faiths , Jewish , or Moslem . The Catholics form sizable groups in the Cyclades Islands , notably Syra . Before 1940 , the Jewish element in Salonika was significant . However , the ...
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... population than any other country in NATO ! Universal military service is the law of Greece and all able - bodied and mentally qualified young men , on reach- ing 21 , are subject to military service . Your Greek serviceman serves 24 ...
... population than any other country in NATO ! Universal military service is the law of Greece and all able - bodied and mentally qualified young men , on reach- ing 21 , are subject to military service . Your Greek serviceman serves 24 ...
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... , their two countries have joined hands in the common struggle against Communist aggres- sion . In Greece you aren't really very far from home ! Total length of land frontiers Population Greece Athens__ Salonika_ 7,602,900 67 A Final Word.
... , their two countries have joined hands in the common struggle against Communist aggres- sion . In Greece you aren't really very far from home ! Total length of land frontiers Population Greece Athens__ Salonika_ 7,602,900 67 A Final Word.
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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.