Strategic location dominating the Aegean Sea and the southern approach to the Turkish straights. Temperate, Mediterranean with hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters.
Spring is hot and autumn long and warm.
The lowest temperatures are recorded between December and February, and the highest in July and August. In general, Greece enjoys over 250 days of sunshine annually. Bauxite, lignite, magnesite, petroleum, marble. Greece, the southernmost extremity of the Balkan peninsula, is a mountainous, stony country with a highly indented and crenellated coast. According to a Greek myth, when god created the world he distributed all the available soil through a sieve and when he had provided every country with enough of it he tossed the remaining stones from the sieve over his shoulder-and there was Greece.