View across the plain

Meteora

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April 23rd 2011
Tuesday 19th April 2011 On the road to Meteora in central nortern Greece, A journey that should in theory be quite straight forward. Over the mountains by modern motorway and down onto the Plain of Thessaly by normal roads. However fate had a different view as with around 3/4 of the motorway section complete traffic in both directions was diverted onto a local mountain road. This was not of g ... read more

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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 Worl... ... read more