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Greece

	Ελλάδα

English	Greece - Hellenic Republic Greece (officially the Hellenic Republic) , is a country in south-eastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan peninsula. It is bordered by ► Bulgaria, the ► Republic of Macedonia, ► Albania to the north, and by ► Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west. Both parts of the eastern Mediterranean basin feature a vast number of islands. Greece includes the autonomous monastic republic of ► Athos.
Ελληνικά	Η Ελλάδα (ή Ελλάς, επίσημη ονομασία Ελληνική Δημοκρατία), είναι χώρα στην νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη, στο νοτιότερο άκρο της Βαλκανικής χερσονήσου, στην Ανατολική Μεσόγειο. Συνορεύει στην ξηρά, βόρεια με την ► ΠΓΔΜ και την ► Βουλγαρία , στα βορειοδυτικά με την ► Αλβανία και στα βορειοανατολικά με την ► Τουρκία. Βρέχεται ανατολικά από το Αιγαίο Πέλαγος, στα δυτικά και νότια από το Ιόνιο και από την Μεσόγειο Θάλασσα. Θεωρείται λίκνο του Δυτικού πολιτισμού. Η Ελλάδα έχει μια μακρά και πλούσια ιστορία κατά την οποία άσκησε μεγάλη πολιτισμική επίδραση σε τρεις ηπείρους. Στην Ελλάδα ανήκει και η ► Αθωνική Πολιτεία του Αγίου Όρους.

Short name	Greece
Official name	Hellenic Republic
Status	Independent country since 1821, member of the ► European Union since 1981
Location	South East Europe
Capital	Αθήνα^[1] (Athens)
Population	11,244,118 inhabitants
Area	131,990 km²
Major languages	Greek
Major religions	Greek Orthodox Church
More information	Greece, Geography of Greece, History of Greece and Politics of Greece
More images	Greece - Greece (Category).

General maps

Map of Greece

Topographic map of Greece

Maps of divisions

This section holds maps of the administrative divisions.

Ionian Islands

Peripheries of Greece

Ελληνικά: Περιφέριες της Ελλάδας

English: Peripheries of Greece

Αττική (Attiki) English: Attica	Στερεά Ελλάδα (Sterea Ellada) English: Central Greece	Κεντρική Μακεδονία (Kentriki Makedonia) English: Central Macedonia	Κρήτη (Kriti) English: Crete
Ανατολική Μακεδονία και Θράκη (Anatoliki Makedonia kai Thraki) English: East Macedonia and Thrace	Ήπειρος (Ipiros) English: Epirus	Ιόνια Νησιά (Ionia Nisia) English: Ionian Islands	Βόρειο Αιγαίο (Voreio Aigaio) English: North Aegean
Πελοπόννησος (Peloponnisos) English: Peloponnesus	Νότιο Αιγαίο (Notio Aigaio) English: South Aegean	Θεσσαλία (Thessalia) English: Thessaly	Δυτική Ελλάδα (Dytiki Ellada) English: Western Greece
Δυτική Μακεδονία (Dytiki Makedonia) English: West Macedonia

Prefectures of Greece

Ελληνικά: Νομοί της Ελλάδας

English: Prefectures of Greece

Αιτωλοακαρνανία (Aitoloakarnania) English: Aetolia-Acarnania	Αθήνα (Athina) English: Athens	Ανατολική Αττική (Anatoliki Attiki) English: East Attica	Αργολίδα (Argolida) (alt. Argolis)
Αρκαδία (Arkadia)	Άρτα (Arta)	Αχαΐα (Achaia)	Βοιωτία (Voiotia) English: Boeotia
Γρεβενά (Grevena)	Δράμα (Drama)	Δωδεκάνησος (Dodekanisos) English: Dodecanese	Δυτική Αττική (Dytiki Attiki) English: West Attica
Εύβοια (Evvoia) English: Euboea	Έβρος (Evros)	Ευρυτανία (Evrytania)	Ζάκυνθος (Zakynthos)
Ηλεία (Ileia) English: Elis	Ημαθία (Imathia)	Ηράκλειο (Iraklio) English: Heraklion	Θεσπρωτία (Thesprotia)
Θεσσαλονίκη (Thessaloniki)	Ιωάννινα (Ioannina)	Καβάλα (Kavala)	Καρδίτσα (Karditsa)
Καστοριά (Kastoria)	Κέρκυρα (Kerkyra) English: Corfu	Κεφαλληνία και Ιθάκη (Kefallinia kai Ithaki) English: Kafalonia and Ithaca	Κοζάνη (Kozani)
Κορινθία (Korinthia) English: Corinthia	Κιλκίς (Kilkis)	Κυκλάδες (Kyklades) English: Cyclades	Λακωνία (Lakonia) English: Laconia
Λάρισα (Larisa)	Λασίθι (Lasithi)	Λέσβος (Lesvos) English: Lesbos	Λευκάδα (Lefkada) (alt. Lefkas)
Μαγνησία (Magnisia) English: Magnesia	Μεσσηνία (Messinia) English: Messenia	Πέλλα (Pella)	Πιερία (Pieria)
Πειραιάς (Peiraias) English: Piraeus	Πρέβεζα (Preveza)	Ρέθυμνο (Rethymno)	Ροδόπη (Rodopi) English: Rhodope
Σάμος (Samos)	Σέρρες (Serres)	Ξάνθη (Xanthi)	Τρίκαλα (Trikala)
Φλώρινα (Florina)	Φθιώτιδα (Fthiotida) English: Phthiotis	Φωκίδα (Fokida) English: Phocis	Χαλκιδική (Chalkidiki)
Χανιά (Chania)	Χίος (Chios)

Communities and Municipalities of Greece

Municipalities of Greece
see Category:Municipalities of Greece

History maps

This section holds a short summary of the history of the area of present-day Greece, illustrated with maps, including historical maps of former countries and empires that included present-day Greece.

Map of Pelasgians

Dialect map of Prehistoric Greece

Mycenaean remains in Epirus

Map of Thracian Tribes

Map of Orpheus life

Ancient Greek dialects

Ancient Epirus Epirus

Epirus in relation to Modern states ,Epirus

Minoan Crete

Karanus of Macedon Karanus of Macedon

The Archaic period in Greece (750 BC – 480 BC) Archaic period in Greece

Battles of Ancient Greece Ancient Greece

Religious Sanctuaries of the Ancient Greeks

Peloponneses

Sparta in the classical age

The Region in the 9th to 7th centuries BC

Greece and the Achaemid Empire (Persia (648–330 BCE) at its greatest extent

Greece and the Persian Achaemenid Empire

Homeric Greece (around 8th century BCE)

Greek colonization 8th until 6th century BCE

Ancient Greece 700-600 BC

Ancient Greek world around 550 BC

Greco-Persian Wars around 500 BC

Third Persian Invasion around 480 BC

Athens and her allies in 431 BC. The city-states in the Aegean were part of the Delian League

Peloponnesian War

Greek states around 431 BC (Peloponnesian War)

Greece 371-362 BCE

early Hellenistic period (around 336 BC)

The Macedonian Kingdom 334-323 BCE

The Expedition of Alexander the Great 334-323 BCE

Map of the Empire of Alexander

Map of the Empire of Alexander 334-323 BCE

Map of the Empire of Alexander (Norwegian)

Pyrrhus' invasion of Italy

Hellenistic successor states:

Kingdom of Ptolemy

Kingdom of Cassander

Kingdom of Lysimachus

Kingdom of Seleucus

Epirus

Other states:

Carthage

Rome

Greek colonies

Hellenistic world in 200 BCE

Hellenistic period (around 200 BC)

Territorial development of the Roman Empire 264 BC-192, including the conquest of present

Roman conquest of Minor Asia

Roman Republic 100 BCE

Map of the Roman Empire in 50

The extent of the Roman Republic and Roman Empire;

133 BC

44 BC (late Republic, after conquests by republican generals)

AD 14 (death of Augustus)

117 (maximum extension)

Camps of the Roman Legions in 80

Map of the Roman Empire in 116

Achaea in the Roman Empire (116)

Epirus in the Roman Empire (116)

Macedonia in the Roman Empire (116)

Roman Empire in 117

The Roman province of Achaea

Roman Empire divided 395, showing the dioceses and praetorian prefectures of Gaul, Italy, Illyricum and Oriens (east), roughly analogous to the four Tetrarch zones of influence after Diocletian's reforms.

The division of the Empire after the death of Theodosius I, ca.395 AD superimposed on modern borders.

Western Roman Empire

Eastern Roman Empire

Invasions of the Roman Empire 100-500

Division of the Roman Empire in 406

Eastern Roman Empire and Western Roman Empire, c.476

Eastern Roman Empire

Eastern Roman Empire under emperor Justinianus

Map of the changes in borders of the Byzantine Empire

Byzantine Empire 550

The Byzantine Empire at the accession of Leo III, c. 717

The Byzantine Empire at the accession of Basil I, c. 867

The Byzantine Empire under Basil II, c. 1025

Byzantine Empire 1025

The Byzantine Empire at the accession of Alexios I Komnenos, c. 1081

Map of the Byzantine Empire under Manuel Komnenos, c.1170.

Byzantine Empire 1180

The Byzantine Empire in 1204 A.D. was divided into the Empire of Nicaea, the Empire of Trebizond and the Despotate of Epirus

Map to show the partition of the empire following the Fourth Crusade, c.1204.

The despotate of Epirus from 1205 to 1230

The despotate of Epirus from 1230 to 1251

The Byzantine Empire in 1265 (William R. Shepherd, Historical Atlas, 1911).

Byzantine Empire in 1265

The despotate of Epirus from 1252 to 1315

The despotate of Epirus from 1315 to 1358

Byzantine Empire in 1355

Byzantine Empire 1400

Growth of the Ottoman Empire

Development of the European part of the Ottoman Empire

Growth of the Ottoman Empire

Map of the Ottoman Empire 1566

Location of the Ottoman Empire in 1683

Map of the Ottoman Empire 1801

Territorial development

Terriorial expansion 1832-1947

Balkans after 1856

Front in World War I

German invasion of Greece in World War II

Front in April 1941

Occupation zones during World War II

History of the wider geographical region of Macedonia

Not to be confused with the modern Republic of Macedonia

Greek Macedonia

Borders of Region of Macedonia according authors (1843-1927)

Greater Macedonia

Ethnic map of the Southwestern Balkan Peninsula (1890)

Ethnograhic map of European Turkey and its vassal states, 1861

The peoples of the Balkan Peninsula (1897)

Bulgarian Ethnographic map of the modern Macedonia region, 19th century

Serbian Ethnographic map of the modern Macedonia region, 19th century

Division of Macedonia region between the Balkan states, 1913

Greek Macedonia

Old maps

This section holds copies of original general maps older than 70 years of this entry.

Map of Greece in 1834

The wider geographical Macedonia region, 1885

Ethnographic map of the Epirus region, 1878. Greek point of view

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Greece after the Treaty of Sèvres

Other maps

Map of Corinthian Isthmus, German, as well as SVG-Version

Attica prefectures

Map of Greece in the colors of the Flag of Greece.

Satellite maps

Satellite map of Greece

Notes and references

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