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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Prefectures of Greece
According to the Constitution of Greece the prefectures are mainly a second-degree organization of local self-government.
The Code of Prefectural Self-Government does not include a non-restrictive list of prefectural duties, but a general rule, according to which the newly formed Prefectural Self-Governments have all the duties of the previous prefectures, which are related to their local affairs.
Troizina is an exclave of the prefecture of Piraeus on the northern coast of geographical Argolis, bordering the prefecture of Argolis on the south
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Prefectures_of_Greece   (1134 words)

  
 Greece - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα, Elládha (IPA [eˈlaða]), or Hellas (Ελλάς, Ellás (IPA [eˈlas])), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellinikí Dhimokratía (IPA [eliniˈci ðimokraˈtia]), is a country in south-eastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan peninsula.
Greece consists of a mountainous and craggy mainland jutting out into the sea at the southern end of the Balkans; though small, it has the 9th longest coastline in the world.
Greece has the 7th or 8th longest coastline in the world with more than 15,000 kilometres (9,300 mi) of coastline; its land boundary is 1,160 kilometres (721 mi).
www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Greece   (5784 words)

  
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List of the monarchs of the Kingdom of England (en)
List of the prefectures of Greece by population (en)
List of the prefectures of Greece by population density (en)
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 Prefectures of Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Athens (capital: Athens with a population of 745,514.
List of the prefectures of Greece by area
List of the prefectures of Greece by population density
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prefectures_of_Greece   (1382 words)

  
 Greece - Gurupedia
Greece is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula.
During the 19th and early 20th centuries, in a series of war with the Ottomans, Greece sought to enlarge Greece to include the Greek-speaking population of the Ottoman Empire, slowly growing in territory and population until it reached its present boundaries in 1947.
Greece uses a complex reinforced proportional representation electoral system which discourages splinter parties and ensures that the party which leads in the national vote will win a majority of seats.
www.gurupedia.com /g/gr/greece.htm   (1114 words)

  
 GREECE HUMAN RIGHTS PRACTICES, 1994
Greece is a constitutional republic and multiparty parliamentary democracy.
Greece has a mixed capitalist economy in which the entrepreneurial system is overlaid by a large public sector which accounts for about 60 percent of gross domestic product.
Greece is a multiparty democracy in which the Constitution calls for full political rights for all citizens and for the peaceful change of governments and of the Constitution.
www.hri.org /docs/USSD-Rights/94/Greece94.html   (9029 words)

  
 Greece
Greece, with a population of 10.9 million, has a market economy with a large public sector that accounted for some 40 percent of the estimated gross domestic product (GDP) of $120 billion for the year.
In March the ECHR found Greece to be in violation of Article 6 (the right to a hearing within a reasonable time by a tribunal) of the European Convention on Human Rights in the case of George Arvelakis, who was convicted of murder in 1988.
In April the ECHR found Greece in violation of Article 8 (on privacy) of the European Convention on Human Rights, in the case of Donald Peers, who was arrested at the Athens airport in 1994 for drug offenses; while he was in jail at the Korydallos prison, officials opened his mail.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/eur/8261.htm   (12366 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Greece
The real danger to the ideal of Greater Greece covering all the Balkans was not, is not now, the Turk, who remains always only an unpleasant incident in the history of these lands; it is the presence of other Christian races, Slavs, who dispute the Greek ideal with their languages and national feeling.
As soon as the affairs of free Greece began to be settled, one of the first acts of the national party was to throw off the jurisdiction of the Phanar.
Greece may be a long way behind France or England, in the same class of country; she is simply part of another world compared with Turkey.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/06735a.htm   (10856 words)

  
 Greece
Greece is a constitutional republic and multiparty parliamentary democracy in which citizens choose their representatives in free and fair elections.
Greece is a multiparty democracy whose Constitution provides for full political rights for all citizens and for the peaceful change of governments and of the Constitution.
Greece is both a transit and destination country for trafficked women.
www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2000/eur/index.cfm?docid=769   (11945 words)

  
 About Greece - Travel, Maps, Flag and Information
Greece, (Greek: Ελλάδα, older form: Ελλάς, Hellas), officially the Hellenic Republic (Greek: Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellinikí Dimokratía; see also List of traditional Greek place names), is a country in southern Europe on the tip of the Balkan peninsula.
The waters of the Aegean Sea border Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Sea to the west and south.
The culture of Greece has evolved over thousands of years, with its beginnings in Ancient Greece, through the influence of the Roman Empire, the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire, and Greek independence.
www.canadiancontent.net /profiles/Greece.html   (660 words)

  
 Greece
It was this Greece of city-states that established colonies along the Mediterranean, resisted Persian invasions and whose culture would be the basis of Hellenistic civilisation that followed the empire of Alexander the Great.
The Byzantine Empire survived numerous centuries of attacks from the west and east until Constantinople fell in 1453 to the Ottoman Empire.
On April 21, 1967 the military seized power in a coup d'etat that also abolished the Greek monarchy.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/gr/GR.html   (949 words)

  
 Greece   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Greece was the first one to take the initiative to provide valuable help after a monstrous, magnitude 7.4 earthquake leveled much of the Turkish northwest on
While Greece insisted that according to all treaties and conventions the islets belong to Greece, Turks claimed that the relevant articles were rather unclear.
Greece has traditionally been one of the most popular tourist destinations on a global basis and each year, particularly in the summer months, the nation's numerous cosmopolitan islands get literally packed with millions of international visitors.
www.vetty.com /wpcd/wp/g/Greece.htm   (4794 words)

  
 TypoExpo - ranked-lists-of-subnational-entities
List of Canadian provinces and territories by population
List of the states of Brazil by population
List of the states of Brazil by population density
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 Greece Prefectures
The Northern Aegean Islands and most of Epirus and Macedonia were transferred from the waning Ottoman Empire to Greece in 1913 at the conclusion of the Balkan Wars.
The prefectures are further subdivided into 147 eparchia (provinces), which are further subdivided into 272 demoi (municipalities), which are further subdivided into localities.
At the turn of the century, there were several prefectures with compound names: Achaea and Ilia, Aitolia and Acarnania, Argolis and Corinth, Attica and Boeotia, Fthiotis and Fokis.
www.statoids.com /ugr.html   (2147 words)

  
 [MGSA-L] Forwarded information, conference on Minorities in Greece
For the list's sake, I shall look for them -and many others, as long as this specific question of the number of Slav-speaking Macedonians is concerned- and post the information about them in this page.
According to most of the so-called "Macedonian" as well as Bulgarian sites the ENTIRE population speaking the Bulgarian language and/or the idiom were not more than 250,000.
There is one more thing to be explained in here and that is how 250,000 Slav-speakers left in 1920 in Greece, became 4,951 by 1995 or so.
maillists.uci.edu /mailman/public/mgsa-l/2003-January/001319.html   (335 words)

  
 Country Profile - Greece
Greece does not have the necessary resources to finance large scale programmes and has to be selective both for the nature of the projects and for their geographic distribution.
The legal framework of the Operational Programme of Greece are the National Law 1650/86 for the protection of the environment, the EC environmental regulations and directives and the obligations of Greece with respect to international environmental agreements and conventions.
Taken that Greece lacks a wide and comprehensive inspectorate system, the main aim of the action programme is to firstly define the legal framework and the technical terms of reference of such system and to thereafter provide for the required infrastructure.
www.un.org /esa/earthsummit/grec-cp.htm   (13659 words)

  
 Greece
Flag: nine equal horizontal stripes of blue alternating with white; there is a blue square in the upper hoist-side corner bearing a white cross; the cross symbolizes Greek Orthodoxy, the established religion of the country
Overview: Greece has a mixed capitalist economy with the basic entrepreneurial system overlaid in 1981-89 by a socialist system that enlarged the public sector from 55% of GDP in 1981 to about 70% in 1989.
Greece almost certainly will not meet the EU's Maastricht Treaty convergence targets of public deficit held to 3% of GDP and national debt to 60% of GDP by 1999.
www.ems.psu.edu /~williams/states/gr.htm   (1303 words)

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