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| | Greece. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Central Greece, situated N of the Gulf of Corinth, includes the low-lying plains of Thessaly, Attica, and Boeotia; Mt. Olympus (Ólimbos; 9,570 ft/2,917 m), the highest point in Greece; and Athens. |
 | | In the Balkan Wars (191213) Greece obtained SE Macedonia and W Thrace; the frontier with newly independent Albania gave a larger part of Epirus to Greece, but neither country was satisfied, and the area remained in dispute until 1971, when Greece, at least temporarily, dropped its claims to N Epirus. |
 | | Greece was a charter member of the UN, and in 1951 it was admitted to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). |
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