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Topic: Communities of the Evros prefecture


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  Xanthi: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Xanthi is the smallest prefecture in area and population in all of Thrace and is the westernmost.
Chalcidice or khalkidhikí or halkidiki (in greek) is one of the fifty-one prefectures of...
Pieria () is one of the fifty-one prefectures of greece....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/x/xa/xanthi.htm   (707 words)

  
 Kefalonia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The capital of the Kefalonia prefecture is Argostoli.
There are five harbours and ports in the prefecture: four main harbours on the island, Sami or Same, and a major port with links to Patras and Ithaca.
The island received its name from the mythical hero Cephalus, who arrived to the island as a refugee from Athens, displacing the island's initial inhabitants who were known as Taphians (Teloboes or Taphioi).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kefalonia   (2125 words)

  
 GREECE FACTS AND INFORMATION
The occupiers murdered the greater part of the Jewish community despite efforts by the Greek Orthodox Church and many Christian Greeks to shelter its Jewish citizens.
The 51 ''nomoi'' subdivide into 147 ''eparchies'' (singular ''eparchia''), which contain 1,033 municipalities and communities: 900 urban municipalities (''demoi'') and 133 rural communities (''koinotetes'').
Greece's Jewish community today is estimated at 4,500.
www.witwib.com /Greece   (4788 words)

  
 Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
In the war's aftermath parts of Asia Minor were given to Greece under international law, including the city of Smyrna which had a large Greek population.
Millions of Greeks died in direct combat, in concentration camps or of starvation during the Nazi occupation.
About 65% have come from Albania, and large-scale Albanian migration to Greece since the fall of Communism in Albania has become a source of conflict in Greece because the Greek-Albanian borders opened without any preparations from the Greek government in terms of immigrant facilities.
encycl.opentopia.com /term/Greece   (2391 words)

  
 Encyclopedia article on Greece [EncycloZine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
During the Nazi occupation millions of Greeks died in direct combat, in concentration camps or of starvation during the Nazi occupation.
The occupiers murdered the greater part of the Jewish community despite efforts by the Greek Orthodox Church and many Christian Greeks to shelter Jews.
The Albanians occasionally suffer from discrimination and exploitation in Greece, and have a reputation (in the popular perception) as trouble-makers and criminals.
encyclozine.com /Greece   (2660 words)

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