GREECE

Index Introduction Introductory Game  Where it is situated History and today The territory The climate The most visited monuments The Olympic Games Images of Greece Conclusion Bibliography

Introduction

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Introductory Game

Acropole of Atenas Statue of Zeus

Statue of Colossos

Where it is situated

Greece officially the Hellenic, is a country in southeastern

Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. It is bordered by

Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of

Macedonia and Albania to the north and by Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea

lies to the east and south of mainland Greece, while the Ionian Sea lies to the west.

History and today

Its mountains, with the sky almost always blue and, with its soft climate made of Greece one of the most wonderful and better countries of the world. It was in that small

country that the occidental civilization started more than two thousand and eight hundred years ago. At that time

the Greek civilization was divided in city-state that dominated great areas of the edges of the Mediterranean and the Black sea. Currently, Greece is the less developed country of Europe. Atenas is the capital and bigger city of the country, with four million inhabitants. In Atenas and

other parts of Greece, there are splendid monuments and ruins of the glorious past of the old civilization. It has

thousand of years, the Greeks had established traditions of justice and individual freedom that are the basis of the

democracy and the economy market.

The territory

About 80% of Greece is mountainous or, at least, caused an accident territory. Most of the country is dry and rocky. Only 28% of the land

is arable. Occidental Greece contains lakes and humid zones. The Pindo, the central

mountainous chain, has an average rise of 2 650 m. The old Olimpo Mount (Macedonian) is the highest point of Greece, reaching 2 917 m

above sea level. 

The climate

The Greek climate is similar to the Portuguese one, with soft and humid winters and hot and dry summers. The temperatures rarely reach

extreme values, even so occur snow fall in mountains and even though in Atenas, in some

winters. 

The most visited monuments

Parthenon is the most visited place of Greece. The Parthenon was a temple of the Greek goddess Atena , constructed in the century V B.C. in acropole of Atenas. It

is known as one of most anceient remaining buildings of Greece and was

made with the best of the Greek architecture . Its decorative sculptures are considered one of the highest points of the

Greek art . The Parthenon is a lasting symbol of Greece and the democracy, and

is seen as one of biggest cultural monuments of the world.

 

The Olympic Games The first Games happened in Old

Greece, at about 2700 years Bf.C, as an important

celebration and tribute to gods; but with the emergency of the

Christianism in the Roman Empire and it ideologies, the hidden cults and everything

inherent to it, had started to be exterminated and between 393

and 394 emperor Teodósio I finishes with the games that had

a Greek origin. Initially, the Games were disputed only by

amateur athletes.

Images of Greece

Island Creta Island Creta

Island of Rodes

Conclusion

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Bibliography

www.google.pt

www.wikipédia.com www.leme.pt

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