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Greece - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04) |
 | | Greece (Greek: Ελλάδα, Elládha (IPA: [e̞ˈlaða]), or Ελλάς, Ellás (IPA: [e̞ˈlas])), officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellinikí Dhimokratía (IPA: [e̞ˌliniˈci ðimo̞kraˈtiˌa]), is a country in south-eastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan peninsula. |
 | | 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 August 17, 1999, killing more than 17,000 people. |
 | | Greece consists of a large mainland at the southern end of the Balkans; the Peloponnesus peninsula (separated from the mainland by the canal of the Isthmus of Corinth); and numerous islands (around 3,000), including Crete, Rhodes, Kos, Euboea, the Dodecanese and the Cycladic groups of the Aegean Sea as well as the Ionian Sea islands. |
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