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Greece at a glance
Greece is situated in Southeastern Europe, with an area of 131,957 sq.km. and a population of 10,964,020. Athens is the capital of Greece with a population of 3,192,606.
The Hellenic Republic is a Presidential Parliamentary Democracy. The are three hundred elected members in Parliament with elections held every four years. Greece has been a member state of E.U. since 1981, and the currency is euro.
The islands are Greece’s chief morphological trait and an integral part of the country’s civilisation and tradition. The Greek territory comprises 6,000 islands and islets scattered in the Aegean and Ionian Sea, a truly unique phenomenon on the European continent; of these islands only 227 are inhabited.
Greece is one of the most popular tourist destinations worldwide. Annually it welcomes more than 14 million tourists, a figure that places it in the 15th position on the World Tourism Organisation list of countries with inbound tourism (according to WTO data).
History
The earliest traces of human habitation in Greece date from the Palaeolithic period (120,000 – 10,000 B.C. approximately). Nowadays visitors of the country can see the “fingerprints” of Greek history from the Palaeolithic period to the Roman era at the hundreds of archaeological sites, as well as in the archaeological museums and collections scattered all over the country (the Greek mainland and the islands).
The result of the Greek War of Independence was the formation of an independent Greek kingdom in 1830, which, however, covered only a restricted territory. The Greek state took its contemporary form after the end of World War II with the incorporation of the Dodecanese Islands. In 1974, after a seven-year dictatorship, a referendum was held and the system of government changed from a constitutional monarchy to a Presidential Parliamentary Democracy.
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