Which country is greece?

The Greek Republic (foreign name: Ελληνικ? Δημοκρατ?α, referred to as "Greece") is a peaceful and peaceful country located in the southeastern corner of Europe and the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula.

The Republic of Greece consists of the Peloponnese Peninsula in the southern part of the peninsula and more than 3,000 islands in the Aegean Sea. Greece is a strategic location connecting Europe, Asia and Africa. It borders Albania, Macedonia and Bulgaria from the northwest to the north, and borders Turkey in the northeast. It is surrounded by the Aegean Sea, the Mediterranean Sea and the Ionian Sea from east to west.

Greece is a developed capitalist country, a member of the European Union and NATO, and the largest economy in the Balkans.

Chinese name

Greece ***[1]

National leader

President: Katrina Saclaro Pulu, Prime Minister: Kyriakos Mitsotakis[1]

Foreign name

The Republic of Greece

Territory area

131,957 square kilometers[1] (15% are islands)

Abbreviation

Greece

Prehistoric civilization

Main term Articles: Minoan culture, Mediterranean civilization, Cretan civilization, Mycenaean civilization, Trojan War, Homer era, ancient Greek civilization

Probably from 3000 to 1400 BC, Crete was Minoan culture emerged.

Bronze culture appeared on Crete around the end of the 3rd millennium BC. Around 2000 BC, some Greek-speaking tribes began to settle on the Greek peninsula. In the middle and late 2nd millennium BC, the Mycenaean civilization appeared on the Greek Peninsula. Starting from the mid-2nd millennium BC, the Greeks gradually expanded to the islands in the Aegean Sea (including Crete). It is said that the Trojan War took place in Asia Minor, probably in the second half of the 13th century BC or the early 12th century BC when the Greeks were expanding outward.

Around 1200 BC, the invasion of the Dorians destroyed the Mycenaean civilization. Some Greek-speaking tribes living at the end of primitive society entered the Greek peninsula from the north, causing many Greek tribes in Thessalia and its south to migrate in different directions. The disappearance of the Mycenaean civilization was followed by the "Homeric Age" in which the social organization and lifestyle at the end of primitive society became dominant in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean islands, and the areas inhabited by Greeks in Asia Minor.

City-state period

Main articles: Phoenician civilization, Greco-Persian War, Greek city-states, history of the Peloponnesian War

From 8 BC From the beginning of the 6th century BC to the end of the 6th century BC, most areas of the ancient Greek world were in a peaceful environment and did not face serious threats from foreign nations. Due to their increasingly close ties with other centers of civilization in the ancient world, the Greeks learned many useful things from Egypt and Western Asia.

In agriculture and handicrafts, iron tools have been commonly used. Although the main economic sector in all regions is agriculture, in some areas with favorable geographical conditions, such as Corinth, Aegina, Miletus, Athens, Chalkis, Eretria, Chios and other places, commerce Handicraft industries such as oil extraction, wine making, metal processing, pottery making, and weapons manufacturing have developed greatly. Shipbuilding technology and navigation also made great progress, and trireme battleships appeared.

In the 8th century BC, the Greeks re-created their own writing based on the modification of the Phoenician alphabet. In the middle of the 6th century BC, currency was minted in Aegina, Corinth, Athens and other places. With the development of productivity, increase in population, and the emergence and development of cities, from the 8th century BC, states began to form among the Greeks on the Greek Peninsula, the Aegean Islands, and the coast of Asia Minor. Within one or two hundred years, a number of small countries that historians call "city-states" appeared one after another. But there are also some tribes that still remain in the late primitive society.