If a glass of dry white retsina transports you and your palate back to the sun-kissed beaches of Greece, well, okay. |
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Have you ever wondered in which city-state you would have lived in Ancient Greece? |
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Prince Philip was granted arms by George VI, which quartered the arms of Greece, Denmark, Mountbatten and Edinburgh. |
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Of the three hot, rough rallies in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey, this is the best from a drivers' view. |
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Greece will bring an adamantine spirit to the final rather than virtuosity. |
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The poem of Agraphon was written by Angelos Sikelianos in 1941 when Greece was under the German jackboot. |
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But the Swede has seen the side he has fashioned win their first five matches, including vital qualifiers against Finland, Albania and Greece. |
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I was not with her in Greece but the press reports of her remarks seem abundantly clear. |
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Hopes of cementing the recent rapprochement between Nato allies, Greece and Turkey, have been set back. |
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Greece will play in white with blue trim while Portugal wear red shirts with green shorts. |
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In ancient Greece much of the economy relied on slaves and the sacred island of Delos served as the main slave market of the Aegean. |
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Turkey and Greece are continuing contacts to find resolutions to their issues over the Aegean. |
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Lara jet-skis, horseback rides and motorcycles her way through Hong Kong, Kenya, Wales, Greece and Africa. |
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In 1967 a military junta overthrew the government in Greece and established a brutal regime of oppression. |
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An extensive Bronze Age settlement on the northern coast of the Cycladic island of Melos in the southern Aegean, Greece. |
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Shot on location in Greece after amour, it opened in French theaters last week. |
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He was born Prince Philippos Prince of Greece and Denmark on the Greek Island of Corfu in 1921, sixth in line to the Greek throne. |
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Now they are the undefeated winners of Group D, conquerors of Greece, and the latest quarterfinalists. |
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Then they would be journeying to Iran, Turkey and then Greece. |
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Italy and Greece both have clauses under which women can give birth anonymously. |
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In Egypt he learnt of a water clock and later introduced it into Greece. |
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Although dimotiki has been the official language of Greece since 1974, many types of katharevousa are actively used, mainly in the written language. |
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Until now Greece has never even won a game at a major soccer tournament and before the European Cup began the team was quoted at 150 to one to win the final. |
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He operated independently in Asia Minor and Greece, preaching his message to non-Jews. |
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For this raid, Mavrokordato anointed him, rather ridiculously, Archistrategos or commander-in-chief of Western Greece. |
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Lois Labrianidis, an economic geographer at the University of Macedonia, says that Greece is now facing a brain drain. |
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A painter friend who lived in Greece for awhile said he thought the calcimining done each spring in villages probably had very little binder and seemed flaky as he remembered. |
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The most famous adytum in Greece was in the temple of Apollo at Delphi. |
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The Stability Pact was to have kept the currency health, but it became inconvenient for France, which ratted, followed by Germany, France, Italy, Holland, and Greece. |
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Italy had occupied the Dodecanese islands in 1912, but Italian occupation ended after World War II, and the islands were integrated into Greece. |
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That role was no longer militarily or financially feasible, as Britain's withdrawal from Greece in 1947 painfully demonstrated. |
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Portugal, Luxembourg, Greece, the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland joined ESA after the agreement had been signed. |
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The idea that matter is made up of discrete units is a very old one, appearing in many ancient cultures such as Greece and India. |
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On 8 July 1939 the Duchess of Kent, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark opened Elmdon Airport. |
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The Republic's focus now was only to the Hellenistic kingdoms of Greece and revolts in Hispania. |
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Mosaics took the Empire by storm after samples were retrieved during Lucius Cornelius Sulla's campaigns in Greece. |
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The spread of supermarkets now means that you can get loukoumi from Siros in supermarkets throughout Greece. |
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Iceland, Belgium, Luxembourg and Greece have signed and have yet to ratify. |
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The largest alumni communities outside of the UK are in the United States, Greece and China. |
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With their origins in Ancient Greece, tension was used to project a bolt or javelin. |
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The best examples of the Bronze Age Greece palace are seen in the excavations at Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos. |
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In the summer of 1946, he travelled to Paris before continuing to Greece for several months to visit John Craxton. |
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With the assistance of his banker and Captain Daniel Roberts, Byron chartered the brig Hercules to take him to Greece. |
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After taking Byron to Greece, the ship returned to England, never again to venture into the Mediterranean. |
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It has been said that if Byron had lived and had gone on to defeat the Ottomans, he might have been declared King of Greece. |
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The national poet of Greece, Dionysios Solomos, wrote a poem about the unexpected loss, named To the Death of Lord Byron. |
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A marble slab given by the King of Greece is laid directly above Byron's grave. |
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Close to the centre of Athens, Greece, outside the National Garden, is a statue depicting Greece in the form of a woman crowning Byron. |
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Except for the horses, they all resided indoors at his homes in England, Switzerland, Italy, and Greece. |
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There are also concrete proposals for the cooperative management of the common goods, such as the one by Initiative 136 in Greece. |
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Joining the Royal Army Medical Corps as a private, he drove ambulance wagons in France and later in Greece. |
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In August 1975, however, Plant and his wife Maureen were involved in a serious car crash while on holiday in Rhodes, Greece. |
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The tour included the band's first performances in Poland, Greece and Italy. |
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On the upper floor, there are galleries devoted to smaller material from ancient Italy, Greece, Cyprus and the Roman Empire. |
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Parthenon Marbles claimed by Greece were also claimed by UNESCO among others for restitution. |
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In Ancient Greece boxing was a well developed sport and enjoyed consistent popularity. |
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In 1877, Brookes requested a prize from Greece to mark Queen Victoria's jubilee. |
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In response, King George I of Greece sent a silver cup which was presented at the Shropshire Olympian Games held that year in Shrewsbury. |
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The Ancient Olympic Games were religious and athletic festivals held every four years at the sanctuary of Zeus in Olympia, Greece. |
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Greece is traditionally the first nation to enter in order to honour the origins of the Olympics. |
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The other nations hosting the Summer Games twice are Germany, Australia, France and Greece. |
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Australia, France, Germany, Greece, and Japan have all hosted the Summer Olympic Games twice. |
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The National Anthem was sung and the massed athletes turned and marched out of the stadium, led by Greece, tailed by Britain. |
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The countdown to the start of the Olympics began with a ceremony for the lighting of the Olympic flame in Olympia, Greece. |
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A recent survey showed fan bases in Australia, the United States, France, Spain, Ireland, Scotland, Canada, the Middle East, Chile and Greece. |
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Archaeological records indicate that horse racing occurred in Ancient Greece, Babylon, Syria, and Egypt. |
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His gold medal at the 2012 Olympics was presented by two Royal former Olympians, Princess Anne and King Constantine of Greece. |
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This contravened the League's covenant, so Greece appealed to the League to deal with the situation. |
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In 1922, Greece massively naturalized all the Greek refugees coming back from Turkey. |
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Greece and Turkey joined three months later, and Iceland and West Germany the next year. |
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Greece experienced famine in the first year of occupation and the Netherlands in the last year of the war. |
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On 6 April, Germany launched the invasion of Yugoslavia and the battle of Greece. |
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The 11 founding members were Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Georgia, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Russia, Turkey, and Ukraine. |
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The Republic of Macedonia's application process is finished, but it is blocked by Greece. |
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The history of privatization dates from Ancient Greece, when governments contracted out almost everything to the private sector. |
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With the exception of Greece, all NATO members were involved to some degree. |
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Democracy is an idea with a pedigree stretching back to ancient Greece. |
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In Greece, avgolemono sauce is used in many recipes and is also made into a soup. |
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Millions of Greeks worldwide erupted in joyful celebration, hardly believing their eyes after Greece beat hosts Portugal in the Euro 2004 finals. |
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The most renowned poetess of ancient Greece, after Sappho, was Corinna, who came from a town in Boeotia named Tanagra. |
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Her devotement was the demand of Apollo, and the joint petition of all Greece. |
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The Stellio, sometimes called the Hardim by the Arabs, is a well-known Lizard inhabiting Northern Africa, Syria, and Greece. |
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What is clear is that the Germanic idea of warfare was quite different from the pitched battles fought by Rome and Greece. |
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Early in this period, which finally culminated in the creation of the Gupta Empire, relations with ancient Greece and Rome were not infrequent. |
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The Bulgar and Slavic tribes profited from these disorders and invaded Illyria, Thrace and even Greece. |
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Their citizens were not of homogeneous origin, but were from all parts of Greece. |
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From the lives of Cicero and Julius Caesar, it is known that Romans frequented the schools in Greece. |
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The three primary styles of column design used in temples in classical Greece were Doric, Ionic and Corinthian. |
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However, the Celtic invasions of Italy and the expedition in Greece and western Anatolia, are well documented in Greek and Latin history. |
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Slavery, as practised by the Celts, was very likely similar to the better documented practice in ancient Greece and Rome. |
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They pulled out of Greece entirely, maintaining minimal contacts with their Greek allies. |
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Like the Spartans, the Seleucids lost the battle, and were forced to evacuate Greece. |
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His talented and ambitious son, Perseus, took the throne and showed a renewed interest in conquering Greece. |
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The pirates not only strangled shipping lanes but also plundered many cities on the coasts of Greece and Asia. |
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At the naval Battle of Actium in 31 BC off the coast of Greece, Octavian decisively defeated Antony and Cleopatra. |
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Caesar's rapid advance forced Pompey, the consuls and the senate to abandon Rome for Greece. |
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Many scholars consider it unlikely that the patricians sent an official delegation to Greece, as the Roman historians believed. |
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Stilicho moved with his remaining mobile forces into Greece, a clear threat to Rufinus' control of the Eastern empire. |
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Germany feared that the fiscal indiscipline of countries like Italy and Greece could make the new euro currency unstable. |
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Belgium, Serbia, Greece, Montenegro, and Romania were affiliated members of the Entente. |
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The United Kingdom responded to Greek requests for assistance by sending troops to Crete and providing air support to Greece. |
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By late March 1941, following Bulgaria's signing of the Tripartite Pact, the Germans were in position to intervene in Greece. |
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From the German invasion of North Europe to the Balkan Campaign, Netherlands, Belgium, Greece and Yugoslavia joined the Allies. |
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The Cypriots desired to merge with Greece because they felt a close connection with Greece. |
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Bulgaria was still resentful after its defeat in July 1913 at the hands of Serbia, Greece and Romania. |
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In an exceedingly short engagement later that year, he decisively defeated Pompey at Pharsalus, in Greece. |
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The major part of the Gaul army was exterminated in the process and the Gauls that did survive were forced to flee from Greece. |
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After some initial battles while subjugating the Greeks of the Ionian coast, the Persians determined to invade Greece proper. |
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Alexandria was intended to supersede Naucratis as a Hellenistic center in Egypt, and to be the link between Greece and the rich Nile valley. |
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Italy declared war on Greece and invaded the country, but it was not until German intervention that the country was overrun. |
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Greek is spoken by about 13 million people, mainly in Greece, Albania and Cyprus, but also worldwide by the large Greek diaspora. |
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Greek is the official language of Greece, where it is spoken by almost the entire population. |
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Because of the membership of Greece and Cyprus in the European Union, Greek is one of the organization's 24 official languages. |
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Raghib Pasha, born in Greece to Greek parents, served as Prime Minister of Egypt. |
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These benefactors donated large amounts for the building of schools, academies, hospitals and institutions in both Egypt and Greece. |
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Many of them emigrated to Australia, the United States, Canada, South Africa, Western Europe, and Greece. |
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Although protected, sometimes wolves are still illegally killed in Greece, and their future is uncertain. |
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Snakes have also been widely revered, such as in ancient Greece, where the serpent was seen as a healer. |
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In addition to these regions in the west tulips have been identified in Greece, Cyprus and the Balkans. |
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Greek mythology culminates in the Trojan War, fought between Greece and Troy, and its aftermath. |
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The Iliad was a standard work of great importance already in Classical Greece and remained so throughout the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods. |
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By it he means Anatolia and the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. |
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The early civilizations of Mesopotamia, Egypt, India, China, Maya, Greece and Rome were some of the cradles of civilization. |
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Phoenician traders disseminated this writing system along Aegean trade routes, to Crete and Greece. |
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The Sphinx of Egypt became Asiatic, and its new form was transplanted to Nineveh on the one side and to Greece on the other. |
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In the 8th century BC, Greece began to emerge from the Dark Ages which followed the fall of the Mycenaean civilization. |
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Greece thus entered the 4th century BC under a Spartan hegemony, but it was clear from the start that this was weak. |
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The Greek peninsula came under Roman rule during the 146 BC conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth. |
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Antony's fleet sailed through the bay of Actium on the western coast of Greece in a desperate attempt to break free of the naval blockade. |
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Regionalism and regional conflicts were a prominent feature of ancient Greece. |
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These names survive to the present day as regional units of modern Greece, though with somewhat different boundaries. |
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At its economic height, in the 5th and 4th centuries BC, ancient Greece was the most advanced economy in the world. |
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Well into the 19th century, the classical tradition derived from Greece dominated the art of the western world. |
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The civilization of ancient Greece has been immensely influential on language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and the arts. |
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Louis the Great led successful campaigns from Lithuania to Southern Italy, and from Poland to Northern Greece. |
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As of 2014 while in Greece, lignite provides about 50 percent of its power needs. |
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In Greece summer camps are widely known for offering organised vacations for children. |
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Early anthropology originated in Classical Greece and Persia and studied and tried to understand observable cultural diversity. |
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Originally, climes were defined in Ancient Greece to describe the weather depending upon a location's latitude. |
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Fascist Italy expanded the war in the Balkans by using its protectorate Albania to invade Greece. |
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Greece resisted, but, after two months of fighting, collapsed and was occupied. |
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The Black Sea outflow moves westward along the northern Aegean Sea, then flows southwards along the east coast of Greece. |
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The subsequent Bronze Age civilizations of Greece and the Aegean Sea have given rise to the general term Aegean civilization. |
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Classical Greece entered the Hellenistic period with the rise of Macedon and the conquests of Alexander the Great. |
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While sometimes compared with classical Greece, classical Rome had vast differences within their family life. |
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Since the worldwide Great Recession of 2008, European growth has been slow, and financial crises have hit Greece and other countries. |
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Authoritarian regimes were established in the 1930s in Germany, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Greece, the Baltic countries and Spain. |
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He traveled in Greece, Hispania, Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia, Gaul, Liguria, North Africa, and on the eastern shores of the Adriatic. |
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After the Social War, King Mithridates of Pontus began his bid to conquer Rome's eastern provinces and invaded Greece. |
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Polybius probably returned to Greece later in his life, as evidenced by the many existent inscriptions and statues of him there. |
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The earliest surviving literary evidence of the druids emerges from the classical world of Greece and Rome. |
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Antony and Octavian then sent 28 legions by sea to face the armies of Brutus and Cassius, who had built their base of power in Greece. |
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For many literate cultures, such as Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, their surviving records are often incomplete and biased to some extent. |
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Alaric then crossed the Gulf of Corinth and marched with the plunder of Greece northward to Epirus. |
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In Greece, the custom of blood feud is found in several parts of the country, for instance in Crete and Mani. |
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However, this, too, fell to the Ottomans in 1460, completing the Ottoman conquest of mainland Greece. |
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The names for the nation of Greece and the Greek people differ from the names used in other languages, locations and cultures. |
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Lack of political unity within Greece resulted in frequent conflict between Greek states. |
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By the time of his death in 323 BC, he had created one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to India. |
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Macedon's defeat at the Battle of Pydna in 168 BC signalled the end of Antigonid power in Greece. |
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In 146 BC, Macedonia was annexed as a province by Rome, and the rest of Greece became a Roman protectorate. |
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From the 4th century, the Empire's Balkan territories, including Greece, suffered from the dislocation of the Barbarian Invasions. |
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The nature of Ottoman administration of Greece varied, though it was invariably arbitrary and often harsh. |
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The Peloponnesian revolt was quickly followed by revolts in Crete, Macedonia and Central Greece, which would soon be suppressed. |
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The two governments were united in 1917, when Greece officially entered the war on the side of the Entente. |
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The resultant Greek exodus from Asia Minor was made permanent, and expanded, in an official Population exchange between Greece and Turkey. |
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Although a dictatorship, Greece remained on good terms with Britain and was not allied with the Axis. |
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The 25 March 1941 finds Greece in the peak of their heroic struggle and in the top of their glory. |
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Since the Battle of Salamis, Greece had not achieved the greatness and the glory which today holds. |
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In 1952, Greece joined NATO, reinforcing its membership in the Western Bloc of the Cold War. |
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Due to the adoption of the euro, when Greece experienced financial crisis, it could no longer devalue its currency to regain competitiveness. |
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Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains or hills, making the country one of the most mountainous in Europe. |
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Western Greece contains a number of lakes and wetlands and is dominated by the Pindus mountain range. |
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Greece features a vast number of islands, between 1,200 and 6,000, depending on the definition, 227 of which are inhabited. |
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The climate of Greece is primarily Mediterranean, featuring mild, wet winters and hot, dry summers. |
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Moreover, Greece maintains the Hellenic Coast Guard for law enforcement at sea, search and rescue, and port operations. |
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Greece is a developed country with high standards of living and high Human Development Index. |
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With an economy larger than all the Balkan economies combined, Greece is the largest economy in the Balkans, and an important regional investor. |
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To secure the funding, Greece was required to adopt harsh austerity measures to bring its deficit under control. |
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Greece is a major beneficiary of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union. |
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The end of Thebes cowed Athens, leaving all of Greece temporarily at peace. |
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Since the 1980s, the road and rail network of Greece has been significantly modernized. |
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The administration of the Greek territory is shared between the Church of Greece and the Patriarchate of Constantinople. |
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The independent Free Apostolic Church of Pentecost is the biggest Protestant denomination in Greece with 120 churches. |
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The Cappadocian dialect came to Greece due to the genocide as well, but is endangered and is barely spoken now. |
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In 2012, the majority of illegal immigrants entering Greece came from Afghanistan, followed by Pakistanis and Bangladeshis. |
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There were several interconnected traditions of painting in ancient Greece. |
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Much of the figural or architectural sculpture of ancient Greece was painted colourfully. |
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Greece participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 35 times after its debut at the 1974 Contest. |
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During the parade of nations Greece is always called first, as the founding nation of the ancient precursor of modern Olympics. |
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Their best ever performance was in the 1896 Summer Olympics, when Greece finished second in the medal table with 10 gold medals. |
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Greece has a long history of conflict, mostly with Jehovah's Witnesses, but also with some Pentecostals, over its laws on proselytism. |
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Greece, a member of the Pentecostal church also won a case in the European Court of Human Rights. |
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The Boeotians, inhabitants of central Greece, whose credentials were impeccable, were routinely mocked for their stupidity and gluttony. |
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Greece was followed by Rome, which made key contributions in law, government, engineering and political organization. |
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In the meantime, however, Greece, under Alexander, had become a capital of the East, and part of an empire. |
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Although Rome, like Greece, was no longer democratic, the idea of democracy remained a part of the education of citizens. |
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In Greece, the Iliad and Odyssey took on new urgency during the Greek War of Independence. |
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It desired for a return to the simplicity, order and 'purism' of classical antiquity, especially ancient Greece and Rome. |
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Early on, the geographic position of Greece and the necessity of importing wheat forced the Greeks to engage in maritime trade. |
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For brief periods the Crown of Aragon also controlled Montpellier, Provence, Corsica, and the twin Duchy of Athens and Neopatras in Latin Greece. |
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The crew of about 270 included men from several nations, including Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Greece, England and France. |
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The recapture of Crete put an end to Arab raids in the Aegean allowing mainland Greece to flourish once again. |
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Still occupied in Thrace, he ordered Alexander to muster an army for a campaign in southern Greece. |
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Alexander's sacking of Thebes ensured that Greece remained quiet during his absence. |
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In general, Greece enjoyed a period of peace and prosperity during Alexander's campaign in Asia. |
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Alexander's death was so sudden that when reports of his death reached Greece, they were not immediately believed. |
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Following Alexander's death, many Greeks who had settled there tried to return to Greece. |
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Opium was traded from Egypt by the Phoenicians and Minoans to destinations around the Mediterranean Sea, including Greece, Carthage, and Europe. |
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Greece used a quince and honey mixture with a slight amount of drying and then tightly packed into jars. |
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However, per capita consumption is highest in Greece, followed by Spain, Italy, and Morocco. |
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In ancient Greece, olive oil was used during massage, to prevent sports injuries, relieve muscle fatigue, and eliminate lactic acid buildup. |
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Following the Babylonians, significant advances in astronomy were made in ancient Greece and the Hellenistic world. |
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In Mexico, the Sephardic community originates mainly from Turkey, Greece and Bulgaria. |
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The battle was fought near Athens, Greece, in the straits between Piraeus and Salamis. |
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In 1298 the Genoese destroyed the Venetian fleet at Curzola, but were themselves defeated in 1354 at Sapienza in Greece. |
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A second collection of 22 maps was published covering Italy, Greece and the Balkans. |
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Merchants and merchant networks were known to operate in ancient Babylonia and Assyria, China, Egypt, Greece, India, Persia, Phoenecia and Rome. |
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The Levantine Arabic is spoken by migrants in Germany, France, United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark, Austria and Greece. |
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During this time India supplied mercenaries to the Persian army then fighting in Greece. |
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Early in this period, which culminated in the creation of the Gupta Empire, relations with ancient Greece and Rome were not infrequent. |
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The ideas that formed the basis of bicameralism trace back to theories developed in ancient Sumer, ancient India, later ancient Greece, and Rome. |
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The lathe is an ancient tool, dating at least to ancient Egypt and known to be used in Assyria and ancient Greece. |
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He took advantage of his position to visit the East and Greece, being the first to discover the location of Pergamacum. |
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From April 1861, he traveled strenuously in Greece, Turkey and France, where he met up with the Tennyson family. |
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Artificial lakes dating to the 5th century BC have been found in ancient Greece. |
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Besides, it was something that had been unpopular in ancient Greece and Rome, and it was thought to be essentially unrepublican in principle. |
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It will then be connected to the TAP gas pipeline crossing from Greece to Albania and, under the Adriatic Sea, all the way to Italy. |
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The route crosses Greece and Albania and goes trough the Adriatic Sea to southern Italy. |
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In the case of Greece, there can be little question that, as critics have charged, Greece is seemingly addicted to welfarism. |
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Well for a few more weeks at least, thanks to another pounds 96billion bailout of whipping boy Greece. |
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Irish Police arrested a Greek man after an air rage incident which forced a flight from the US to Greece to make an emergency landing in Ireland. |
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Michael Tonge, 28, and Lee Yarrow, 30, were forced to fly to Greece to face justice for an incident seven years ago. |
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And last week she was whisked off to Zante in Greece to do promotion work for a tourist bar. |
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Earlier, the European leaders in the quadripartite format discussed in Brussels the possibility and terms of additional financial aid to Greece. |
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It was cultivated in Greece for its medicinal qualities and by the Romans for its supposedly aphrodisiacal qualities. |
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If you plan to visit archaelogical sites in Greece next year, expect to pay more. |
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In fact, it's the second most visited archaelogical site in Greece after the Acropolis. |
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The temblor was felt across western Greece, with people on Lefkada and nearby Ionian Sea island of Kefalonia rushing out into the streets. |
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Set in Kefalonia, Greece, in which movie did Penelope Cruz play opposite Nicolas Cage? |
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It was the first capital of Greece, before Athens, and faces the Argolic Gulf. |
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For a week last summer I lived above a taverna on a beach overlooking the Argolic Gulf in Greece. |
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Greece needs to have its biggest lenders recapitalised by the end of the year, EU Commission Vice-President Valdis Dombrovskis said on Tuesday. |
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The central Bank of Greece assured that recapitalizing the bank will go in order and is expected to be completed by end of April. |
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In exchange for their bailout, Greece was required to accept a large austerity plan including privatisations and a sell off of state assets. |
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However, Greece did not coordinate its plans with Russia, did not declare war, and received no outside military or financial support. |
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Greece was not invited to the peace conference and made no gains out of the war. |
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Only Greece failed to support the use of air strikes, but did not veto the proposal. |
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According to the CIA World Factbook, from 2010 to 2011, the unemployment rates in Spain, Greece, Italy, Ireland, Portugal, and the UK increased. |
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As measured by the Gini index, Greece as of 2008 had more income inequality than the economically healthy Germany. |
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In the Greek tradition, bishops who occupy an ancient see are called metropolitans, while the lead bishop in Greece is the archbishop. |
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Europe, in particular ancient Greece, was the birthplace of Western civilization. |
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Western democratic and rationalist culture are often attributed to Ancient Greece. |
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In 2010, fears of a sovereign debt crisis developed concerning some countries in Europe, especially Greece, Ireland, Spain, and Portugal. |
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As a result, measures were taken, especially for Greece, by the leading countries of the Eurozone. |
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He went on to serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps in Salonica, Greece and France during the First World War. |
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As a student Wilde worked with Mahaffy on the latter's book Social Life in Greece. |
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This attitude resulted in his being rusticated for one term, when he nonchalantly returned to college late from a trip to Greece with Prof. |
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In the summer of 1965 he left for Greece with a band called the Glands, which included his old friend Ben Palmer on piano. |
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The Western tradition of sculpture began in ancient Greece, and Greece is widely seen as producing great masterpieces in the classical period. |
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Greece, Iceland and Malta do not share land borders with other Schengen member states. |
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However, this dolphin was the most frequently represented in the art and literature of ancient Greece and Rome. |
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In Greece, an ID card is a citizen's most important state document receive parcels or registered mail etc. |
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Greece has claimed an exclusive economic zone, as it is entitled to do so, as per UNCLOS 1982 as well as customary international law. |
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In the mythology of ancient Greece, cairns were associated with Hermes, the god of overland travel. |
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According to BBC Travel in 2011, Bali is one of the World's best islands, ranking second after Santorini, Greece. |
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In Greece voting is compulsory, however there are practically no sanctions for those who do not vote. |
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Slaves were drawn from all over Europe and the Mediterranean, including Gaul, Hispania, Germany, Britannia, the Balkans, Greece. |
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Vergil wrote the Aeneid, creating a national epic for Rome in the manner of the Homeric epics of Greece. |
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The second quarter, representing Greece, consists of a white cross on a blue field. |
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In ancient Greece, the laurel was used to form a crown or wreath of honour for poets and heroes. |
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The cross of Saint Andrew was taken from Greece during the Crusades by the Duke of Burgundy. |
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Bru and other Barr products are exported to Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece and Cyprus, as well as parts of Africa and Asia. |
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The Romans had originally brought marble over from Greece, but later found their own quarries in northern Italy. |
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In Ancient Greece, pacifism seems not to have existed except as a broad moral guideline against violence between individuals. |
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Some European governments like Switzerland, Greece, Norway and Germany offer civilian service. |
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The Bank of Greece tried to adopt deflationary policies to stave off the crises that were going on in other countries, but these largely failed. |
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This was especially harmful to Greece as the country relied on imports from the UK, France and the Middle East for many necessities. |
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Greece went off the gold standard in April, 1932 and declared a moratorium on all interest payments. |
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The majority of international flights are to Spain, Greece, Ireland, UK domestic, Germany, Italy, Portugal, and the Netherlands. |
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Today Russia leads as the top consumer of tobacco followed by Indonesia, Laos, Ukraine, Belarus, Greece, Jordan, and China. |
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Had it not been for the monastic scribes of Late Antiquity, most literature of Greece and Rome would have perished in Europe. |
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Narcissus poeticus which grows in Greece, has a fragrance that has been described as intoxicating. |
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Comedies were one of the two original play types of Ancient Greece, along with tragedies. |
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The most important farming countries are Greece, Turkey, Italy, Spain, Croatia, and Egypt. |
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As soon as the Greek War of Independence broke out in 1821, several Greek Cypriots left for Greece to join the Greek forces. |
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In 1828, modern Greece's first president Ioannis Kapodistrias called for union of Cyprus with Greece, and numerous minor uprisings took place. |
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Greece and Cyprus were no exception, they faced the same issue of paths taken under Ottoman educational policies. |
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In 1915, Britain offered Cyprus to Constantine I of Greece on condition that Greece join the war on the side of the British, which he declined. |
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The Greek Cypriots viewed the island as historically Greek and believed that union with Greece was a natural right. |
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In 1955 the EOKA organisation was founded, seeking union with Greece through armed struggle. |
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Greece dispatched 10,000 troops to Cyprus to counter a possible Turkish invasion. |
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Greece had begun to make peace with the Roman Republic in 262 BC, and the Romans sought to annex Sicily as their republic's first province. |
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The symbol dates back to when Sicily was part of Magna Graecia, the colonial extension of Greece beyond the Aegean. |
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The oriental plane, Platanus orientalis, grew in gardens and around tombs in ancient Egypt, Greece, and Persia. |
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Roman art was influenced by Greece and can in part be taken as a descendant of ancient Greek painting. |
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Home breakfasts in Greece include bread with butter, honey or marmalade with coffee or milk. |
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The actions of these Swedish Vikings are commemorated on many runestones in Sweden, such as the Greece runestones and the Varangian runestones. |
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The six northern islands are off the west coast of Greece, in the Ionian Sea. |
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In the 15th century, the Ottomans conquered most of Greece, but their attempts to conquer the islands were largely unsuccessful. |
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