Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country, which is part of the continent of Europe, located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring thousands of islands. It has a population of nearly 10.5 million (as of 2022). Athens is the nation's capital and the largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras.
Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilization, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, theatre, and the Ancient and Modern Olympic Games, which began in Athens. From the eighth century BC, the Greeks were organized into various independent city-states, known as poleis (singular polis), which spanned the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. united most of present-day Greece in the fourth century BC, with his son rapidly conquering much of the known ancient world, from the eastern Mediterranean to northwestern India. The subsequent Hellenistic period saw the height of Greek culture and influence in antiquity. Greece was annexed by Rome in the second century BC, becoming an integral part of the Roman Empire and its continuation, the Byzantine Empire, which was predominantly Greek in culture and language. The Greek Orthodox Church, which emerged in the first century AD, helped shape modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox world. After the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Latin possessions were established in parts of the Greek peninsula, but most of the area fell under Ottoman rule in the mid-15th century. Greece emerged as a modern nation state in 1830, following a war of independence.
==Films and shows==
*Fantasia
*The Moon-Spinners
*The Goddess of Spring
*Aladdin (briefly)
*Hercules
*Legend of the Three Caballeros - "Labyrinth and Repeat"
*Cars 2 (named "Grease" on a brochure)
*Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
==Cities and Locations==
*Mount Olympus
*Underworld
*Phil's Island
*Thebes
==See also==
*Ancient Greece
==Trivia==
*The country is named "Grease" on a travel brochure in the closing credits of Disney/Pixar's Cars 2.
==Gallery==
Flag of Greece.png|The flag of Greece
==External links==
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