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Greece has 19 properties in Greece inscribed on the World Heritage List, 17 of which are cultural sites and two ( Meteora and Mount Athos) are mixed, listed for both their natural and cultural significance. The first site added to the list was the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae, in 1986. The next two sites listed were the Archeological ...
Bershka (Spanish: [ˈbeɾʃka, ˈbeɾska]) is a Spanish clothing retailer founded in 1998 in Spain. It is part of the Spanish Inditex group (which also owns brands such as Zara , Massimo Dutti , Pull&Bear , Oysho , Uterqüe , Stradivarius and Zara Home ).
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.
Phidias (sculptor) The Parthenon ( / ˈpɑːrθəˌnɒn, - nən /; Ancient Greek: Παρθενών, romanized : Parthenōn [par.tʰe.nɔ̌ːn]; Greek: Παρθενώνας, romanized : Parthenónas [parθeˈnonas]) is a former temple [6] [7] on the Athenian Acropolis, Greece, that was dedicated to the goddess Athena.
The second Persian invasion of Greece (480–479 BC) occurred during the Greco-Persian Wars, as King Xerxes I of Persia sought to conquer all of Greece. The invasion was a direct, if delayed, response to the defeat of the first Persian invasion of Greece (492–490 BC) at the Battle of Marathon, which ended Darius I 's attempts to subjugate Greece.
Ancient Greece(Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterraneancivilization, existing from the Greek Dark Agesof 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-statesand other territories.
Heraklion or Herakleion ( / hɪˈrækliən / hih-RAK-lee-ən; Greek: Ηράκλειο, Irákleio, pronounced [iˈrakli.o] ), [4] sometimes Iraklion, is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete and capital of Heraklion regional unit.
The royal coat of arms of Greece under the Glücksburg dynasty, created after the restoration of King George II to the throne in 1935. The Kingdom of Greece was ruled by the House of Wittelsbach from 1832 to 1862 and by the House of Glücksburg from 1863 to 1924 and, after being temporarily abolished in favor of the Second Hellenic Republic, again from 1935 to 1973, when it was once more ...