Sentence:  The potters of the Aegean islands thus stood apart from those of the mainland , and in <WSD>Greece</WSD> itself Argive , Corinthian , Attic , Boeotian , and other Geometric sequences have each their own hallmarks . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil