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Sophia of PRUSSIA Queen of Greece was born in 1870 in Prussia - dtr of Frederick III.
Irene of GREECE was born in Greece - dtr of Constantine I. 640 vi.
Catherine of GREECE was born in Greece - dtr of Constantine I. +641 vii.
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 Greece
Constitution of Greece To Syntagma, the Constitution of Greece is resolved by the Fifth Revisionary Parliament of the H...
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 History of Modern Greece - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By the 1890s Greece was virtually bankrupt, and poverty in the rural areas and the islands was eased only by large-scale emigration to the United States.
Greece's ethnic homogeneity was enhanced by the postwar expulsion of 120,000 Bulgarians from Thrace and 25,000 Albanians from Epirus.
From 1952 to late 1963, Greece was governed by conservative parties: the Greek Rally of Marshal Alexander Papagos, and its successor, the National Radical Union (ERE) of Constantine Caramanlis.
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 MSN Encarta - Search View - Greece
Mainland Greece includes the regions of Thrace and Macedonia in the north; Epirus, Thessaly (Thessalia), and Central Greece in the central section; and the Pelopónnisos, a peninsula connected to the rest of the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth, in the south.
Greece’s basic pension system is underfunded; in some instances, only 15 years of contributions (employer and employee contributions, combined with state subsidies in some cases) are required for a pension.
Greece’s inflation and deficits were still too high for the country to qualify in 1998 when the EU chose the participant countries, and so Greece could not adopt the euro when it was launched in January 1999.
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 1920 in Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the first half of the year Greece was chiefly occupied with establishing her position at Smyrna and in taking over the other territories which had been allotted to her by the Supreme Council.
Greece thus extended her dominions to the coast of the Black Sea.
The funeral was attended by the Dowager Queen Olga, Madame Manos, Admiral Kountouriotis, the crown prince of Sweden, and Crown Prince Alexander of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes.
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 MSN Encarta - Print Preview - Greece
Greece suffered a crushing defeat in a short-lived war with the Ottomans, and the Great Powers forced it to pay compensation to the Ottomans and to accept small modifications to the Greek-Ottoman frontier.
Greece objected to the republic’s name and flag, claiming that Macedonia was a Greek name and that the flag appropriated a Greek symbol—the 16-pointed Star of Vergina of Alexander the Great.
Greece also had disputes with Albania arising from allegations of mistreatment of the Greek minority in southern Albania and from the large influx of Albanian illegal immigrants into Greece.
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 1921 in Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The end of 1920 with the tragic death of King Alexander, the fall of Eleftherios Venizelos and the dramatic return of King Constantine to the throne brought Greece once more to the fore in international politics.
The internal situation in Greece, notwithstanding all official assurances to the contrary, continued to be serious, particularly in Macedonia, Salonica, and Crete, and consequently on April 12 martial law was proclaimed and a censorship of the press reintroduced.
In the meantime internal party strife continued in Greece, and great excitement was caused in Athens by the election in Constantinople in December as Ecumenical Patriarch of Mgr.
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 Encyclopedia: History of Modern Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the 14th century until its declaration of independence in 1821.
Epirus (Greek Ήπειρος, Ípeiros), is a province or periphery in northwestern Greece, bounded by West Macedonia and Thessaly to the east, by the Ambracian Gulf and the province of West Greece to the south, the Ionian Sea and the Ionian Islands to the west and Albania to the north.
From 1952 to late 1963, Greece was governed by conservative parties: the Greek Rally of Marshal Alexander Papagos, and its successor, the National Radical Union (ERE) of Constantine Karamanlis.
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 Guardian | Greece
In one of the most strangest deaths of a royal family member to date, King Alexandros I of Greece (1917-1920) died from blood poisoning after being bitten by his pet monkey.
Greece didn't adopt the Gregorian calendar until 1912, due to its orthodox affiliations.
The Gregorian calendar was a revision of the Julian calendar which was instituted in a papal bull by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582.
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 Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The flag of Greece consists of nine alternating horizontal blue and white stripes of equal width.
In World War II, Greece was first invaded by Italy (1940) and subsequently occupied by Germany (1941-44); fighting endured in a protracted civil war between royalist supporters of the king and communist rebels.
Greece joined the European Community or EC in 1981 (which became the EU in 1992); it became the 12th member of the euro zone in 2001.
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 Sandafayre Stamp Auctions | Stamp Atlas | Greece
Greece remained a Turkish province until the War of Independence (1821-8), during which Greece held the Turks at bay, though in danger of being subdued, until the Allied fleet defeated the Turks at Navarino in 1827.
Greece was not happy with the outcome of the Treaty of San Stefano, although it obtained southern Epirus.
Under the terms of the Treaty of Sevres in August 1920, Greece obtained western Thrace from Bulgaria and was given a mandate for the Turkish part of eastern Thrace except for Constantinople itself.
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 The (Slav) Macedonian Minority of Northern Greece
Greece has since 1913 pursued a policy of Hellenization vis-à-vis the Slavophone Macedonians, since it feared that many of them had a strong Bulgarian consciousness, which could be used as a pretext for Bulgaria’s revisionist aspirations over Macedonia in the inter-war period.
On the contrary, if Greece showed respect for their identity, they would feel proud of being citizens of a state that is tolerant and democratic.
Greece does not fear that the neighboring country can be a threat for the western part of Macedonia with which it has common borders.
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 Eleftherios Venizelos
Venizelos was in favor of enosos, or Union with Greece and fought in the rebellion of 1897.
His leadership leads to many reforms and alliances with Greece's northern neighbors and as a result of this the size of the country doubled after the Balkan Wars.
Greece was rewarded for her contribution to the war by being given the High Commissionership of Smyrna.Greek troops were sent to Asia Minor to protect the Greek population.
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 Macedonia - United Macedonians Organization of Canada
It was during this period that Greece took extraordinary measures to conceal the identity and character of the Macedonian nation.
Greece, due to her ownership of Christian interests inside Macedonia, was granted unrestricted access in and out of Ottoman territory, provided it was for religious purposes only.
The Macedonian territory annexed by Greece was re-named “Northern Greece”.
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 WHKMLA : History of Greece, 1918-1924   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The TREATY OF SEVRES (Aug. 1920) foresaw that Greek troops would continue to occupy the Smyrna region for 5 years, after which the regional government could request a plebiscite.
King Alexander had died in October 1920, and the royalists won the election.
The Settlement of the Refugees in Greece (1920-1930), from Anistoriton
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 Ethnologue: Greece
BULGARIAN [BLG] 30,000 in Greece (1971 census); 9,000,000 in all countries (1981 WA).
The Saracatsan are nomadic shepherds of northern Greece.
The number of Turks in Greece remains fairly constant, because growth is offset by a steady flow of emigration to Turkey.
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 Northern Epirus (1914-1916)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
The Treaty of London (1913), whichended the Balkanic conflict, assigned most of Epirus to Greece, but the northern districts remained within Albania, with the opposition of the Greek population of the area.
The rebels used the Greek flag with the double-headed eagle, to symbolize the belonging to Greece of this part of Albania.
It is worth being noted that the flag with the royal flag in the canton was not in use in the Kingdom of Greece in 1914-16, having been adopted only later, in 1935.
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 Articles - Alexander I of Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
In 1917, Constantine I, known for his pro-German tendencies, insisted that Greece remain neutral in World War I, while Prime minister Eleftherios Venizelos was determined to go to war in support of the Triple Entente.
On 25 October 1920 he died at Athens, of sepsis, after been bitten by a pet monkey.
His only child, born after his death, was Alexandra of Greece (1921-1993), who later married Peter II, King of Yugoslavia.
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She was granted the style and title HRH Princess of Greece on September 10th, 1922.
On December 19th, 1920 his father Konstantinos I became King after a plebiscite.
When Alexandros died in 1920, Konstantinos I was called back to the throne, but was forced to abdicate on September 27th, 1922.
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 sparkuhl2 - pafg12 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Athanasios Christ Grigoropoulous [Parents] was born on 5 Feb 1892 in Petrachrare, Greece.
Frank Homer Markos was born in 1873 in Sparta, Greece.
Dimitri Grigoropoulous died in 1973 in Athens, Greece.
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 greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
With more than 4000 years of history and the presence of the greatest civilizations ever, Greece is teeming with museums and architectural wonders.
*1920’s stonework, contains Greece’s only Museum of Ancient Cypriot Art, with treasures dating back to the 9th century BC; a host of gallery spaces, whose exhibits rotate every six weeks; a concert hall; a theater; and a cinema that usually screens classic or art films.
* Greece's oldest private museum, established in 1926 by an illustrious Athenian family, the Benaki was one of the first to place emphasis on Greece's later heritage at a time when many archaeologists were destroying Byzantine artifacts to access ancient objects
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 greece
They still bear the Danish title because King George I never renounced his rights to the Danish throne when he assumed the Greek one, though he did defer his succession rights and agreed that his younger brother's would supersede his.
The members of the Greek Royal Family are no longer in the line of succession to the Danish throne, however.
Note: Prince Otto of Bavaria reigned as King of Greece 1832-1862.
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 Royal Genealogies Part 8
During most of WW II, when Greece was under German occupation, he was with the Greek government-in-exile in London and Cairo.
From Cairo, he broadcast messages to the Greek people.
He returned to Greece in 1946 and succeeded to the throne in 1947, on the death of his brother, King George II.
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 Descendants of Wolphert Gerretse Van Kouwenhoven - Person Page 810   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Robert Stone Denise died on May 12, 1932 at Greece, Monroe County, New York, at age 72.
     Robert Stone Denise was a farmer on January 23, 1920.
Robert Stone Denise and Caroline Estelle Blackwell appeared on the census of January 23, 1920 at Greece, Monroe County, New York.
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 Athens History Information - Greece, Europe Provided By Columbus Travel Guides   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Athens History Information - Greece, Europe Provided By Columbus Travel Guides
1834 Capital of modern Greece transfers from Náfplio in the Peloponnese to Athens
1967 Military coup results in the exile of King Constantine I. Greece ruled by Colonel Papadopoulos
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