Sentence:  Being somewhat delicate in health , at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe , for which he at once developed a passion , so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad , at first in Italy , then in <WSD>Greece</WSD> , Egypt , Asia Minor , and Palestine . 
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