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The Acropolis of Athens (Ancient Greek: ἡ Ἀκρόπολις τῶν Ἀθηνῶν, romanized: hē Akropolis tōn Athēnōn; Modern Greek: Ακρόπολη Αθηνών, romanized: Akrópoli Athinón) is an ancient citadel located on a rocky outcrop above the city of Athens, Greece, and contains the remains of several ancient buildings of great architectural and historical significance ...
Greece. 5.56×45mm NATO. Equipped with night vision binoculars NS467C by THEON Sensors. The first 750 pieces are available in two versions (Standard) and (PARA). The remaining 2,320 are MINIMI Mk. 2 with the same number of night-vision binoculars of third generation NS 685C made by THEON Sensors. 1,274 more on order.
Santorini ( Greek: Σαντορίνη, romanized : Santoríni, pronounced [sa (n)doˈrini] ), officially Thira ( Greek: Θήρα, romanized : Thíra, pronounced [ˈθira]) and Classical Greek Thera ( / ˈθɪərə / ), is a Greek island in the southern Aegean Sea, about 200 km (120 mi) southeast from its mainland.
Ancient Greece ( Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized : Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity ( c. 600 AD ), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
The Temple of Poseidon is an ancient Greek temple on Cape Sounion, Greece, dedicated to the god Poseidon. There is evidence of the establishment of sanctuaries on the cape from as early as the 11th century BC. Sounion's most prominent temples, the Temple of Athena and the Temple of Poseidon, are however not believed to have been built until ...
Greek aircraft participated in many battles including Battle of Chosin and operated in Korea until May 1955. Greek pilots flew thousands of missions including air evacuations, personnel transport, intelligence gathering, and supply flights. In 1952 Greece joined NATO, and the Air Force was rebuilt and organised according to NATO standards. New ...
t. e. Hellenistic Greece is the historical period of the country following Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the classical Greek Achaean League heartlands by the Roman Republic. This culminated at the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC, a crushing Roman victory in the Peloponnese that led to the ...
Echetus, a king of Epirus. Eetion, a king of Cilician Thebe and father of Andromache. Electryon, a king of Tiryns and Mycenae; son of Perseus and Andromeda. Elephenor, a king of the Abantes of Euboea. Eleusis, eponym and king of Eleusis, Attica. Epaphus, a king of Egypt and founder of Memphis, Egypt.