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Facts On Greece

1. Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world at 14,880 km in length.

2. Greek has been spoken in the Balkan Peninsula since around the late 3rd millennium BC.

3.Greek is spoken by about 13.1 million people.

4.Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European language family.

5.: There are twelve greek gods, Zeus, Hera, Poseidon, Athena, Ares, Demeter, Apollo, Artemis, Hephaestus, Aphrodite, Hermes and Dionysus. The respective Roman scheme comprises the following gods: Jupiter, Juno, Neptune, Minerva, Mars, Ceres, Apollo, Diana, Vulcan, Venus, Mercury and Bacchus and Hades.

6.Greece was the first area in Europe where advanced early civilizations emerged.

7. Population: just under 11,000,000 (46% men, 54% women)

8. Greece has a long tradition of music, going back to ancient years. Several gods and goddesses were connected with music and dance.

9.During the early 50s the Greek music, or certainly what you could hear in the mass media of radio and films, was the Laika (music based on the bouzouki) with sounds that the Greeks from Asia Minor brought with them back in the 1920s.

10. Wine was for the Ancient Greek the drink of the Gods, still today the Greek wine is for the Greeks the most popular drink.