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Background: Greece achieved its independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1829. During the second half of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, it gradually added neighboring islands and territories, most with Greek-speaking populations. In World War II, Greece was first invaded by Italy (1940) and subsequently occupied by Germany (1941-44); fighting endured in a protracted civil war between royalist supporters of the king and communist rebels. Following the latter's defeat in 1949, Greece was able to join NATO in 1952. A military dictatorship, which in 1967 suspended many political liberties and forced the king to flee the country, lasted seven years. The 1974 democratic elections and a referendum created a parliamentary republic and abolished the monarchy. Greece joined the European Community or EC in 1981 (which became the EU in 1992); it became the 12th member of the euro zone in 2001.

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By Keith and Pete
September 29th 2008

Belly button and Foot races of the ancient world

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our ticket to the Olympic site

The drive up through the bare, sparsely inhabited mountains helped to prepare us for the granduer of the area. The day we were here, the sky was clear and the views made you stop in your tracks. This is Delphi. The Sanctuary of Apollo. This is where the oracle was said to have told fortunes and given advice. The oracle was a priestess who gave "advice" under the influence of the vapors coming from a huge crack in the earth. She was assisted by priests who interpreted for her. So little is left of ancient Delphi, but even so, the [View Full Entry]

By 1820 Travel
September 5th 2008

Everything is in ruins!

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Delphi Greek Treasury

Days 8, 9, and 10. Well its the last day of our Pelopennese and Central Greek tour. I daresay Tim is ready for some beach time. And I'll be ready to stop making small talk with other tour members as well. Today we are in Meteora, in Central Greek. It was a far ride from Delphi, and we have another long drive today back to Athens. Central Greece is pretty interesting, there are some great mountain ranges, and wonderful views as all the roads switchback up the mountains. (Kathleen you would get sick just looking at these roads in a picture). [View Full Entry]

By tamaffa
June 24th 2008

Death to tour busses, rent a car

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Tour busses of the size found here in Greece are NOT meant to wend through ancient streets meant for horse and carriages and Peugeots so we rented a car (a Peugeot) and made our way from from the Athens airport (first taking a bus from Napflio, then a taxi to the airport) and went to Delphi which was not an easy day trip away from Kalampaka as our travel agent had insisted Windy, windy roads as in twisty, turny, easily car sick roads up and up and up severe switch backs and cars passing big trucks on iffy turns and the [View Full Entry]

By Christine and Kim
June 18th 2008

Day 65: Delphi, Greece

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Delphi
This is the surrounding lanscape at Delphi.

We woke up at 7am today to get ready for our tour. When we woke up it was already beastly hot, so we knew we had a whole day of hiking in the heat to look forward to. Once we were ready we went down to enjoy our free breakfast of Nutella toast, hard boiled eggs, and tea. On the message board in the lobby, it said that there was an earthquake 55 miles away. It was a 5.4 on the Richter scale. We were asleep when it happened, but many people in the hostel felt it. After breakfast, we waited [View Full Entry]

By Greece Lightning
June 18th 2008

Olivas in Hellas - The saga continues

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Epidavros
A theatre built in the 3rd century BC that sat 14,000 people. The acoustics defy belief, if someone whispers on stage you can hear them even in the last row.

This entry will be condensed because we have to get on our mopeds for dinner. Today we toured famous monestaries in the mountains. What else would a nice Jewish family do on a Bat Mitzvah trip. Enjoy. [View Full Entry]

By Omentide
June 15th 2008

Walking on mountains

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The hut
As seen from the bottom of the mountain - it's a long way up

With the weather in northern Greece not so good today (better tomorrow and for the next 5 days) we decided to stay in Delphi and do some walking. Perched on top of a mountain overlooking Delphi was what seemed to b a viewing hut. It seemed a good idea, and there was a clearly marked trail. It took 3 hours to do the climb, mostly a relatively easy walk, and a bit less than 2 hours to get back down, The views were fantastic. We also saw eagles, a snake, loads of butterflies, flowers, and at times the whole mountain seemed [View Full Entry]

By Omentide
June 14th 2008

In Delphi

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Ashley in Delphi

The ride to Delphi Gone are European highways, instead what counts in Greece as main roads. Bends, hairpins, pot holes and vehicles going too fast, oh and as the afternoon went on an increasingly strong gusting wind. So we drifted along at a leisurely pace taking in the amazing scenery and enjoying the ride as much as possible, which was fun after getting out of Patras. The bridge crossing from the south coast of the Gulf of Corinth to the north coast was impressive as a piece of engineering, then the coast round to Itea, winding around mountains and bays, then [View Full Entry]

By Janielle
June 7th 2008

Hot Day in Delphi

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Well I have to say, that despite the previous day's pessimism regarding certain ruins, I have become a changed man. The ruins were quite impressive and in remarkably good shape. But before Jan gets ahead of himself, I am going to steal the keyboard to tell you guys about the site itself. Delphi is an UNESCO site. It is home to the temple of Apollo and the sanctuary of Athena. There is also a theatre (ampitheatre), stadium, gymnasium, and numerous treasuries. Most of the foundations of the site date back to the Mycenean period, but the ruins that we saw were [View Full Entry]

By Janielle
June 7th 2008

Hot Day in Delphi

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By Janielle
June 6th 2008

Journey to Delphi

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Last night we got two new roommates, a dad and his daughter were hostelling from Greece to Italy and finally to Slovenia. At first it was nice to room with them because the dad had paid for air conditioning for the room, it was heavenly!!! They were in bed early and both had some sort of "problem" during the night. The dad was a cronic snorer and the daughter had a crying fit sometime in the night. It was interesting. BUt we felt less bad when we woke up at 8 this morning and had to get ready and pack while [View Full Entry]

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