Crossword clues for greece
greece
- Where the Olympics originated
- Where Pericles lived
- Where Olympus rises
- Where bouzoukis are played
- UEFA Euro 2004 champion
- Truman Doctrine beneficiary
- The Cradle of Western civilization
- Spartan country
- Samothrace setting
- Rhodes locale
- Recipient of a 45-billion-euro rescue package in 2010
- Recipient of a 2010 bailout
- Plato's country
- Neighbor of Albania
- Marathon's land
- Macedonia's home, or Macedonia's neighbor
- Lesbos's land
- Land of Keats's urn
- Kalamata's land
- Its anthem graces Olympics closing ceremonies
- Ionian Sea country
- Home of the Erechtheum
- Eurozone member
- EU member that's the subject of many a bailout
- Empire once spanning three continents
- Edith Hamilton Subject
- Delphi's land
- Crete's country
- Crete locale
- Country with the most archaeological museums
- Country whose capital is Athens
- Country where Zeus was worshiped
- Country that always leads the Parade of Nations at the Olympics
- Country Ozzy's Gus G is from
- Country common to the theme answers
- Country bordering three seas
- Birthplace of the Olympics
- Athens' land
- Athens site
- Arianna Huffington's birthplace
- Aegean country
- 2010 bailout recipient
- "The Guns of Navarone" setting
- "Mamma Mia!" setting
- "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" setting
- Where Naxos is
- Pindar's country
- "The Magus" setting
- Where Euboea is
- Prince Philip's birthplace
- Where Zeus was worshiped
- 2004 Olympics locale
- See 12-Down
- Nation aided by the Truman Doctrine
- Attic locale
- A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula
- Known for grapes and olives and olive oil
- Ellás
- Locale of the Pindus Mountains
- Alexander's home
- An old glory
- Hellas
- Land of feta
- Home of ouzo
- "To the glory that was ___"
- Place to spend drachmae
- Country match starting late by church
- Zorba's land
- Something mucky reported in this country?
- Fat, it is said, of the land
- Athens' country
- Report of oil in this country
- Union member's smear reported
- European country
- Turkey neighbor
- Site of the first Olympics
- Mediterranean country
- Homer's home
- Euboea's locale
- Where H and Z rhyme
- Where Athenians live
- Pindus Mountains site
- One of the Balkan States
- Its one-euro coins depict an owl
- Hellenic Republic
- Cradle of Western civilization
- Country with more than 2,000 islands
- Where they spend drachmas
- Where the Pindus range is
- Where the Pindus Mountains are
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gree \Gree\, n.; pl. Grees (gr[=e]z); obs. plurals Greece (gr[=e]s) Grice (gr[imac]s or gr[=e]s), Grise, Grize (gr[imac]z or gr[=e]z), etc. [OF. gr['e], F. grade. See Grade.] A step.
Greece \Greece\, n. pl. See Gree a step. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Latin Graecia; named for its inhabitants; see Greek. Earlier in English was Greklond (c.1200). The Turkish name for the country, via Persian, is Yunanistan, literally "Land of the Ionians." Ionia also yielded the name for the country in Arabic and Hindi (Yunan).
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) (plural of gree English)Category:English plurals (a step)
WordNet
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 6170
Land area (2000): 4.331068 sq. miles (11.217414 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 4.331068 sq. miles (11.217414 sq. km)
FIPS code: 30279
Located within: New York (NY), FIPS 36
Location: 43.209112 N, 77.700341 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 14616
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Greece
Wikipedia
Greece (, ), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: ), also known since ancient times as Hellas ( ), is a country located in southeastern Europe. According to the 2015 census, Greece's population is approximately 10.9 million. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki.
Greece is strategically located at the crossroads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north and Turkey to the northeast. Greece consists of nine geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, the Aegean Islands (including the Dodecanese and Cyclades), Thrace, Crete, and the Ionian Islands. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at in length, featuring a vast number of islands, of which 227 are inhabited. Eighty percent of Greece is mountainous, with Mount Olympus being the highest peak at .
Greek history is one of the longest of any country. The country is considered the cradle of Western civilization, having been the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, including both tragedy and comedy. The Greeks were first unified under Philip of Macedon in the fourth century BC. His son Alexander the Great rapidly conquered much of the ancient world, spreading Greek culture and science from the eastern Mediterranean to the Indus River. Annexed by Rome in the second century BC, Greece became an integral part of the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire. The first century AD saw the establishment of the Greek Orthodox Church, which shaped the modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox World. Falling under Ottoman dominion in the mid-15th century, the modern nation state of Greece emerged in 1830 following a war of independence. Greece's rich historical legacy is reflected in large part by its 18 UNESCO World Heritage Sites, among the most in Europe and the world.
Greece is a democratic and developed country with an advanced high-income economy, a high quality of life and a very high standard of living. A founding member of the United Nations, Greece was the tenth member to join the European Communities (precursor to the European Union) and has been part of the Eurozone since 2001. It is also a member of numerous other international institutions, including the Council of Europe, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), WTO, OSCE, and the OIF. Greece's unique cultural heritage, subsequently large tourism industry, and prominent shipping sector classify it as a middle power. It is the largest economy in the Balkans, where it is an important regional investor.
In European elections, Greece is a constituency of the European Parliament, currently represented by twenty-one MEPs. It covers the member state of Greece.
Greece may refer to:
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Greece, a country in southeast Europe, also known as Hellas
- Ancient Greece
- Classical Greece
- Hellenistic Greece
- Roman Greece
- Byzantine Greece
- Modern Greece
- First Hellenic Republic, an unrecognized state 1822–1832
- Greece (European Parliament constituency)
- Kingdom of Greece, a monarchy during the periods of 1832–1924, 1935–1941 and 1944–1974
- Second Hellenic Republic, 1924–1935
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Greece (town), New York, a town in western New York
- Greece (CDP), New York, a suburb of Rochester located within the town
Usage examples of "greece".
The track to Agios Georgios wound its way between high banks of maquis, the scented maquis of Greece.
Likeliest would be an airmobile assault by helicopter coming out of the southeast, mountain-hopping across the rugged, forested border with Greece.
I have been obliged to make concerning some of the principal personages in the annals of Greece.
In spite of the evident need to pursue the Italians along the Libyan coast while the going is good, we shall have to consider the dispatch of four or five more squadrons of the Royal Air Force to Greece, and possibly the diversion of part of the 2d British Armoured Division.
Greece from the time when she was attacked by Italy, and four British air squadrons were operating with some success from Greek airfields.
Our aid to Greece had been limited in the first place to the few air squadrons which had been sent from Egypt when Mussolini first attacked her.
Crete, or Candia, with Cyprus, and most of the smaller islands of Greece and Asia, have been subdued by the Turkish arms, whilst the little rock of Malta defies their power, and has emerged, under the government of its military Order, into fame and opulence.
As they descended from the plane in Athens, they were met by Eric Boulter, the blind director of foreign-sponsored services for the blind in Greece.
We were very ignorant indeed, he said, for some had made him a Chian, others a native of Smyrna, others of Colophon, but that after all he was a Babylonian, and amongst them was called Tigranes, though, after being a hostage in Greece, they had changed his name to Homer.
Roman arms in Cisalpine Gaul, in Macedonia, Greece, and Asia, ending with the triumph of AEmilius Paullus.
There was no part-singing in Greece, but merely a singing, or rather chanting, of national and patriotic songs in unison, accompanied by the cithara, the national instrument.
Since that time, from one generation to the next, the order of chivalry has extended and spread through many different parts of the world, and among its members, famous and known for their great deeds, were the valiant Amadis of Gaul and all his sons and grandsons unto the fifth generation, and the valorous Felixmarte of Hyrcania, and the never-sufficiently-praised Tirant lo Blanc, and in our own time we have almost seen and communicated with and heard the invincible and valiant knight Don Belianis of Greece.
Party after it, while at the same time becoming an outspoken exponent of Enosis, the political union of the island of Cyprus with Greece.
The fault of the Entente, if it was a fault, lay in the failure to act on the presumption that Constantine would prove as false to international obligation as his imperial brother-in-law when he invaded Belgium, and in the assumption that the difference between Serbian aggression and defence would involve the difference between Greece being an ally and a neutral.
I have done wrong to read them, and worse to believe them, and worse yet to imitate them by setting myself the task of following the extremely difficult profession of knight errantry which they teach, and you deny that there ever were Amadises in the world, whether of Gaul or of Greece, or any of the other knights that fill the writings.