What do you know about Greece?

[Lord Valtasar 12,711]

it's a beautiful place, but it's getting less and less viable for people to stay here, so the youth is leaving

[MaresalCakmak 43]

I know a good amount about Ioannis Metaxas and his 4th of August Regime, a semi-fascist dictatorial regime that ruled Greece from 1936-1941.

Edited July 18, 2019 by MaresalCakmak

[TheRockARockster 55,343]

It is Greecy.

 

Lovely views and food.

[The Kaeya Simp 13,997]

massive empire, ottomans take over, independence, a couple of military juntas, eu, eurozone, fucking hundreds of unemployment and nearly bankrupt

[A Small Bear 60]

I learned a lot about it in high school, don't remember much though. I remember that the Mycenaeans were the first Greeks to settle on the peninsula, and that a big chunk of Greece (and other modern day Balkan countries) used to be Macedonia, and that there were a bunch of city-states like Athens and Corinth, and that they were part of a thing called the Hellenic league. That's about it.

[Stardust 647]

If ya mean ancient greece. Trojan horse story yos. And the idea of democracy from Athens, greco mystery schools and that sorta thing. Lots of cool myths.

Modern greece I like the greek yog ;P

[Raskolnikov 1,754]

Enough to hate the overfetishisation of the ancient mythology and philosophy and the lack of genuine interest in the *modern* Greece beyond tourist brochures that would give you the impression Greece is a giant tourist theme park.

I've seen that Dodekatheism has become a trend in some circles on e.g. Tiktok and the quite frankly offensive levels of ignorance are enough to make my head spin...

Edited June 24 by Raskolnikov

[Iforgotmybrain 7,874]

They had a pretty big civil war immediately after WW2 which lasted until about 1949. Like all civil wars it had a huge impact on the country wayyy after it ended. Don’t think they had a non-authoritarian government until the 80s.

[Do svidaniya 2,089]

Souvlaki skewers are the food of the Gods. 

[Clawdeen 25,326]

Absolutely nothing lol

[Sparklefan1234 185,194]

35 minutes ago, Clawdeen said:

Absolutely nothing lol

 Greek people live in Greece. That one's for free. 

[Clawdeen 25,326]

30 minutes ago, Sparklefan1234 said:

 Greek people live in Greece. That one's for free. 

Thats true lol

[DubWolf 20,093]

Hmm.

Capital is Athens. Thessaloniki is also another prominent city there. Flag is blue with white stripes and a cross. The Olympics originated from there. Stuff most people know already lol. Maybe ask about a different country  .

[Street Light 878]

i spent a while learning about Alexander the Great and his diadochi who inherited his empire :3 very tumultuous, Greece was pretty divided and an easy target for the Romans

i learned a bit about the peloponnesian wars, only to kinda give a bit of reference for Sparta and Athens and their state in Alexander's empire~

learned about the greco Persian wars and the battle of marathon -- was very curious as to why marathons were called marathons. turns out some Greek guy ran from Marathon to Athens to tell them about the Persians, and the distance of that is roughly equal to the modern marathon ^~^

I started to learn about regional innovations, and focused on the Dioklos in Corinth, which was just a way to move ships overland across the isthmus instead of sailing all the way around

I have a bit of fragmented knowledge on the acropolis of Athens and the great learning and study that went on there, as well as it's foundation on a pre-existing Mycenean ruin in the same area :3

i know a bit about Knossos, which is modern Crete. very advanced for the time and home to Minoans. After the bronze age collapse it actually thrived, and was supposedly the most populated city in the world for a time. Even though it was under Mycenean occupation by the iron age, it was still very active uwu

I know that the Parthenon, which is also a part of the acropolis of Athens, was originally a temple. by the time of the Byzantines it became a church, and after Ottoman expansion, a mosque. Its true decline occurred in the 1600's after Venetian cannons bombarded it because the Ottomans were using it as a place to store gunpowder :3

i know a few things. I like history >;3c i can always learn more though, and this reminds me to research even more into it uwu

[ZiggWheelsManning 15,413]

It is to the west of Türkiye.