Greece is the country of Athens, ancient temples, and a thousand islands. Travel to Greece, northern Greece, the islands of Greece.
It has thousands of islands and only a couple of hundred are inhabited. No point in the country is more than about a hundred and forty kilometres from the sea. Democracy, theatre, philosophy and the Olympic games all began there, which is a great deal for one small place.
1noungreeceA country in south-eastern Europe.
“Athens, the capital of Greece, is home to the ancient Parthenon.”
greece is a country.
Ancient Greek
Γραικός
Latin
Graecia
Old French
Grece
Middle English
Grece
English
Greece
English, today
greece
Greece comes from Middle English Grece, from Old French Grece, from Latin Graecia, from Ancient Greek Γραικός. Mostly displaced Greekland from Grēcland.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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