![]() These mythical creatures can be found in fairy tales and folklore all over the world, including Greek mythology. Greek goddess of wisdom and war - important character in many widely known Greek myths.Ī group of huge one-eyed giants - most famous for their role in Homer's "The Odyssey" Greek Mythology and History Crafts for Kids: Greece is one of the sunniest places on Earth!.80% of Greece is made up of mountain ranges!. ![]() The Greek Isles have more than 6 THOUSAND beautiful islands!.National Flower: Bear’s Breech (Acanthus Mollis) National Symbol: No official animal or bird the Phoenix (mythical animal) is the national symbol of Greece Greece is bordered by Albania, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey to the north and is bounded by the Mediterranean Sea to the south, the Aegean Sea to the east, and the Ionian Sea to the west. As of 2021, the country is split into 14 political divisions (called administrative regions, nine of which belong to mainland Greece and four insular and one is an autonomous region. Greece is a country found in the Northern Hemisphere and the Eastern Hemisphere of the globe. While it is a primarily Greek-speaking country-with most of the population speaking Greek as their first language-regional languages like Macedonian (called Slav-Macedonian in Greece), Albanian, spoken in the center and the south, and Turkish, spoken by Muslim communities around the Aegean, as well as Arumanian (or Aromanian) and Bulgarian, spoken all over the country. Greece, as the name suggests, is a country with Greek as its official language. Photographed by Giuseppe Milo used with permission under C.C. Meteora Monasteries, Holy Land, Thessaly, Greece
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