GREECE: Flying over Greece: History || Culture || Traditions ||Landscape

Greece: Officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in southeastern Europe, located at the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula.

Greece is regarded as the cradle of Western civilization, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, theater and the Olympic Games.
The culture of Greece developed over thousands of years, beginning with Mycenaean Greece and continuing through the influence of the Roman Empire and its Greco-Eastern continuation, the Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire, especially in Classical Greece.
According to writers such as Pliny or Pausanias, the most revered form of art was individual, mobile paintings on wooden boards, technically described as panel paintings.
Greece is one of the world’s most historic and diverse countries.
The Greek Empire is one of the oldest empires we know so far, the culture, traditions and history of the country is deep and rich.
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