Greek History

Brief refernce to the History of Greece. The shores of the Aegean Sea saw the emergence of the first civilizations of Europe, the Minoan and Mycenaean. These cultures, followed by a dark period until about 800 BC, when it occurs, a new Greek culture based model of the city-state. It is the culture that grows [...]

Economy of Greece

The Greek economy has experienced in the decades after World War II a deep modulation and fast growth, but failed to complete the transformation by creating efficient in all areas of agriculture and livestock to meet the needs of the country and especially industry capable to reduce external dependence and to produce products competing in [...]

Geography of Greece

The current Greek area formed after a series of geological reversals. The geological phenomena in the area of the prehistoric era causing fragmentation and sinking of different parts of land, while elsewhere the emergence of other divisions of land from the sea. Previously during the Alpine fold formed the Greek mountain ranges, which covered the [...]

Evia map

Evia is a large island of Greece in the Aegean Sea with 208,083 inhabitants, second only to Crete . It is with Skyros, a prefecture in Central Greece. Evia is located on the east side of Central Greece and follows parallel to the coast from northwest to northeast of the northernmost point at the height [...]

Fokida map

The current prefecture of Fokida includes only part of ancient Phocis.To the north borders with Fthiotida to the east with Boeotia, the Etoloakarnania to the west and south is bordering with the Corinthian Gulf. It has an area 2120 Wed km and a population of 44,183 inhabitants is the most mountainous counties in Central Greece. [...]

Map of central Greece

Central Greece Located in the southern part of the mainland of the country at the center. It is bordered to the north from Thessaly and Epirus, bordering to the south with Patras gulf, Corinthian gulf and the Saronic Gulf, to the east from Maliakos gulf , North and South with Evia and west with the [...]

Epirus map

Epirus is located in the north-east corner of Greece. It borders with Albania. It is one of the most mountainous areas of the country as the Pindus range, the “backbone of Greece”, runs through it. Due to its alpine nature its climate is continental in the interior and mild in the coastal areas. The high [...]