eyewitness travel greece

[...]... MAINLAND GREECE DISCOVERING GREECE 1011 PUTTING GREECE ON THE MAP 1213 A PORTRAIT OF MAINLAND GREECE 1423 THE HISTORY OF GREECE 2443 ATHENS AND MAINLAND GREECE THROUGH THE YEAR 4449 10 I N T R O D U C I N G M A I N L A N D G R E E C E DISCOVERING MAINLAND GREECE F our thousand years of live in the three largest cities, civilization and waves of leaving much of the hinterinvaders have made Greece land... Cape Sounion D I S C O V E R I N G M A I N L A N D G R E E C E 11 NORTHERN GREECE Thriving city nightlife Unspoilt Prộspa Lakes Splendid monasteries of Mouth Athos Spectacular clifftop monasteries, Metộora, Central Greece immense beauty, with a mountainous interior, lush valleys and fine beaches, it is also home to some of Greeces most important ancient cities and temples, including Ancient Corinth... canyon where Macedonia and Thrace are Greeces least-explored regions, despite glorious beaches on the Chalkidikớ peninsula and an array of rewarding archaeological sites The old Macedonian capital at Ancient Pộlla (see p243) and the temple site of Dion, slumbering beneath Greeces tallest mountain, Mount Olympos (see p241), both warrant a visit Thessalonớki (see pp244 5), Greeces second largest city, has... 200 ISRAEL I N T R O D U C I N G M A I N L A N D G R E E C E 15 A PORTRAIT OF MAINLAND GREECE G reece is one of the most visited European countries, yet one of the least known The modern Greek state dates only from 1830 and bears little relation to the popular image of ancient Greece At a geographical crossroads, Greece combines elements of the Balkans, Middle East and Mediterranean occupation and conflict,... of storytelling is still its Balkan neighas prized in Greece as in Homers bours, Greece is a time, with conversation pursued for wealthy and stable its own sake in kafeneớa and at country However, An archaeologist dinner parties The bardic tradition by Western economic helping to restore the Parthenon has remained alive with the poet- indicators Greece is lyricists such as Mỏnos Eleftherớou, poor and... White asphodel is often seen growing on roadside verges in many parts of Greece Tall spikes of white flowers appear from April to June The Greek spider orchid looks more like a bumblebee than a spider It is found in maquis in early spring 23 I N T R O D U C I N G M A I N L A N D G R E E C E 25 THE HISTORY OF GREECE T he history of Greece democracy of Classical is that of a nation, not Athens which had... theTheúfilos protectorate over Greece the folk artist cultures of the Bronze Age which marked the end of to the competing city-states that Ottoman rule Although Greece emerged in the 1st millennium BC re-established itself as a sizeable After the defeat of the Greek army by state, the Great Idea the ambition Philip II of Macedon at Chaironeia in to re-create Byzantium ended in a 338 BC, Greece soon became absorbed... Now, as an After 1453, when Constantinople fell established democracy and member to the Ottomans, Greece disappeared of the European Union, Greeces altogether as a political entity Even- fortunes seem to have come full circle tually the realization that it was the after 2,000 years of foreign rule A map of Greece from the 1595 Atlas of Abraham Ortelius called Theatrum Orbis Terrarum The beginning of the... It was probably used for a high-status burial TIMELINE 7000 Neolithic farmers in northern Greece 200,000 BC 200,000 Evidence of Palaeolithic civilization in northern Greece and Thessaly 5000 BC 3200 Beginnings of Bronze Age cultures in Cyclades and Crete 4000 BC 2000 Arrival of first Greek-speakers on mainland Greece 3000 BC 28002300 Kộros- Frying Pan vessel from Sýros (2500 2000 BC) Sýros culture flourishes... Romans at Pydna Roman coin commemorating Roman victory over the Macedonians in 196 BC 34 I N T R O D U C I N G M A I N L A N D G R E E C E Roman Greece THRACIA MACEDONIA After the Romans gained final control of Greece, with the sack of Corinth in 146 BC, Greece EPIRUS ASIA became the cultural centre of the Roman Empire The Roman nobility sent their sons to be ACHAIA educated in the schools of philosophy .