Greece

Greece is a country located in the Balkans on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, bordering Albania, Bulgaria, North Macedonia, and Turkey. The current government is known as the Hellenic Republic, and occupies mainland Greece and many of the islands in the Aegean Sea. 
Greece is primarily known today for its many ancient ruins and extensive pagan mythology, though it was a great melting pot of culture and believed to have been the birthplace of Western civilization. Greece has an approximate population of 10.5 million in 2021. The current capital is Athens, the birthplace of democracy and home city of the Athenians.
==Relevant history==
===Overview===
Early hunter-gatherers migrated to modern Greece in prehistory, advancing from the Neolithic era to the Helladic period, where civilizations such as the Minoans of Crete and the Mycenaeans of mainland Greece rose in power and culture. This ended with the late Bronze Age collapse in 1200 BCE, partially caused by the mysterious Sea Peoples who raided Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The collapse brought a dark age to Greece, which it did not recover from until 776 BCE, when the first Olympic Games at Olympia took place.In the centuries afterward, many civilizations rose in Ancient Greece, including the Athenians, the Spartans, the Corinthians and the Thebians. The Achaemenid Empire attempted to invade Ancient Greece on multiple occasions, with the most famous invasion being the second from 480 to 479 BCE, in which King Leonidas of Sparta and 300 Spartans held the Persians at the Thermopylae for three days, and the Persian fleet was destroyed at Salamis.
Almost eighty years later, the Peloponnesian War between Sparta and Athens from 431 to 404 BCE resulted in the diminishment of Athens and the eventual rise of Thebes and soon after Macedon. Alexander the Great of Macedon conquered the entirety of Greece, Egypt, and Persia, stretching into modern India, before returning home and dying of either poison or disease in 323 BCE. The Roman Republic would eventually defeat Macedon, with Macedon annexed and the rest of Greece annexed soon after with the rise of Augustus and the Roman Empire.
The Romans adopted Greek culture into their own, worshiping the same gods under different names and incorporating science and philosophy. The spread of Christianity and the journeys of Paul the Apostle saw many Greeks adopt Christianity into the medieval age. The Byzantine Empire and the Ottoman Empire after them ruled Greece until 1821 CE. The Greek War of Independence saw Greece free from the Ottomans, and the Kingdom of Greece was founded. This lasted until then interwar period and World War II, when a dictatorship took root and the Axis Powers conquered Greece.
After the war, a military dictatorship lasted until 1974 when the regime collapsed and the Hellenic Republic was founded.
==Notable locations==
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*Antikythera
*Argolis
**Mycenae
*Attica
**Athens
*Boeotia
**Thebes
*Cyclades
**Gyaros
***Reliquary Site-26
*Dodecanese
**Rhodes
*Ionian Islands
**Kythira
*Mount Olympus
**Area-13
**SCP-3480
*Peloponnese
**Arcadia
***Tripoli
**Corinthia
***Corinth
**Laconia
***Sparta
**Temple of the Many Hands Society
*Santorini
**Akrotiri
==Anomalies==
==External link==
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece
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