Greece

Greece is a country with a captivating history and culture that has influenced the world for thousands of years. Ancient Greece, home to one of Europe's first urban civilizations, was the origin of Western culture.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include Athens and Thessaloniki.

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is the capital city of Greece.

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is the capital of , and with one…

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Lesbos, or , is the northernmost of the…

Destinations to Discover

Explore places such as Greek Islands and Northern Greece.

Most visitors to Greece want their trip to include…

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is the large, varied upper half…

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is a peninsula in southern Greece.

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is a traditional geographic region of Greece, colloquially known as Roúmeli.

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is a region in central Greece that has unique…

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is the largest of the Greek islands and is the…

Greece

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Latitude of center
38.72° or 38° 43′ 12″ north
Longitude of center
23.07° or 23° 4′ 12″ east
Open­Street­Map ID
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Geo­Names ID
390903
Wiki­data ID
Q41

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In Other Languages

From Abkhazian to Zulu—“Greece” goes by many names.
  • Abkhazian: “Бырзентәыла”
  • Achinese: “Yunani”
  • Adyghe: “Урымые”
  • Afrikaans: “Griekeland”
  • Akan: “Greekman”
  • Albanian: “Greqi”
  • Albanian: “Greqia”
  • Amharic: “ግሪክ”
  • Amis: “Greece”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἑλλάς”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἑλληνικὴ Δημοκρατία”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἑλληνῐκὴ Δημοκρατία”
  • Angika: “ग्रीस”
  • Arabic: “اليونان”
  • Arabic: “يونان”
  • Aragonese: “Grecia”
  • Aragonese: “Grezia”
  • Armenian: “Հունաստան”
  • Arpitan: “Grèça”
  • Arpitan: “Grèce”
  • Assamese: “গ্ৰীচ”
  • Asturian: “Grecia”
  • Atayal: “Greece”
  • Avaric: “Герек”
  • Avaric: “Греция”
  • Awadhi: “यूनान”
  • Aymara: “Grisya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ellada”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ellin Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yunanıstan Respublikası”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yunanıstan”
  • Balinese: “Yunani”
  • Bambara: “Gɛrɛsi”
  • Bashkir: “Греция”
  • Bashkir: “Юнанстан”
  • Basque: “Grezia”
  • Batak Mandailing: “Yunani”
  • Batak Toba: “Gorik”
  • Batak Toba: “Junani”
  • Bavarian: “Griachaland”
  • Belarusian: “Грэцыя”
  • Belarusian: “Эляда”
  • Bengali: “এলাদা”
  • Bengali: “গ্রিস”
  • Bengali: “গ্রীস”
  • Bengali: “হেলাস”
  • Bengali: “হেলেনিক প্রজাতন্ত্র”
  • Betawi: “Yunani”
  • Bhojpuri: “ग्रीस”
  • Bhojpuri: “युनान”
  • Bhojpuri: “यूनान”
  • Bishnupriya: “গ্রীস”
  • Bislama: “Greece”
  • Bislama: “Gris”
  • Bosnian: “Grčka”
  • Breton: “Gres”
  • Bulgarian: “Гърция”
  • Bulgarian: “Република Гърция”
  • Burmese: “ဂရိ”
  • Burmese: “ဂရိနိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Elláda”
  • Catalan: “Grècia”
  • Catalan: “Hellás”
  • Catalan: “República grega”
  • Catalan: “República Hel·lènica”
  • Cebuano: “Gresya”
  • Central Bikol: “Gresya”
  • Central Kanuri: “Greece”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئێلادا”
  • Central Kurdish: “یونان”
  • Central Kurdish: “یۆنان”
  • Central Kurdish: “یۆنانستان”
  • Chamorro: “Grecia”
  • Chavacano: “Grecia”
  • Chechen: “Греци”
  • Chechen: “Желтойчоь”
  • Cherokee: “ᎪᎢᎯ”
  • Chinese: “Xīlà”
  • Chinese: “太陽岩石之地”
  • Chinese: “太陽岩石共和国”
  • Chinese: “希倫共和国”
  • Chinese: “希腊/希臘”
  • Chinese: “希腊”
  • Chinese: “希腊共和国”
  • Chinese: “希臘”
  • Chinese: “希臘共和國”
  • Chinese: “陽岩共和国”
  • Choctaw: “Elata”
  • Choctaw: “Klis”
  • Church Slavic: “Грьци”
  • Chuvash: “Греци”
  • Cornish: “Pow Grek”
  • Corsican: “Grecia”
  • Corsican: “Republica Ellenica”
  • Corsican: “Ripublica Ellenica”
  • Crimean Tatar: “Yunanistan”
  • Croatian: “Grčka”
  • Croatian: “Helenska Republika”
  • Croatian: “Republika Grčka”
  • Czech: “Řecko”
  • Dagbani: “Greece”
  • Danish: “Grækenland”
  • Danish: “Hellas”
  • Dhivehi: “ޔޫނާން”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Yunanıstan”
  • Dotyali: “ग्रीस”
  • Dutch: “Griekenland”
  • Dutch: “Helleense Republiek”
  • Dzongkha: “གིརིསི་”
  • Dzongkha: “གིརིས྄”
  • Dzongkha: “གྲྀས།”
  • Eastern Mari: “Греций”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اليونان”
  • Emilian: “Grécia”
  • Erzya: “Греция Мастор”
  • Esperanto: “Grekio”
  • Esperanto: “Grekujo”
  • Esperanto: “Helena Respubliko”
  • Estonian: “Kreeka”
  • Ewe: “Greece nutome”
  • Ewe: “Greece”
  • Extremaduran: “Grecia”
  • Extremaduran: “Grécia”
  • Faroese: “Grikkaland”
  • Fiji Hindi: “Greece”
  • Finnish: “Hellas”
  • Finnish: “Helleenien tasavalta”
  • Finnish: “Kreikan tasavalta”
  • Finnish: “Kreikka”
  • French: “GR”
  • French: “Grèce”
  • French: “Hellas”
  • French: “République hellénique”
  • Friulian: “Grecie”
  • Fulah: “Gerees”
  • Fulah: “Yunan”
  • Gagauz: “Grețiya”
  • Galician: “Grecia”
  • Gan Chinese: “希臘”
  • Ganda: “Bugereeki/Buyonaani”
  • Ganda: “Buyonaani”
  • Georgian: “საბერძნეთი”
  • German: “Griechenland”
  • German: “Hellas, Griechenland”
  • German: “Hellas”
  • German: “Hellenische Republik”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “el”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ellada”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “gr”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Greece”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Greek Republic”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hellas”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Hellenic Republic”
  • Gilaki: “ىۊنان”
  • Gilaki: “یۊنان”
  • Goan Konkani: “Greece”
  • Goan Konkani: “ग्रीस”
  • Gorontalo: “Yunani”
  • Gothic: “𐌺𐍂𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳”
  • Greek: “Elláda”
  • Greek: “Ellás”
  • Greek: “Ellinikí Dhimokratía”
  • Greek: “Ellinikí Dimokratía”
  • Greek: “Vasilion tis Ellados” (historical)
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Ελλάδας”
  • Greek: “Δημοκρατία της Ελλάδος”
  • Greek: “Ελλάδα”
  • Greek: “Ελλάς, Ελλάδα”
  • Greek: “Ελλάς” (historical)
  • Greek: “Ελληνική Δημοκρατία”
  • Guarani: “Gyresia”
  • Guarani: “Gyrésia”
  • Guianese Creole French: “Grès”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્રીસ”
  • Haitian: “Grès”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Hî-lia̍p”
  • Hausa: “Girka”
  • Hausa: “Greek”
  • Hawaiian: “Helene”
  • Hawaiian: “Lepupalika o Helene”
  • Hebrew: “הרפובליקה היוונית”
  • Hebrew: “יוון”
  • Hindi: “यूनान”
  • Hungarian: “Görögország”
  • Iban: “Gerika”
  • Icelandic: “Grikkland”
  • Ido: “Grekia”
  • Igbo: “Greece”
  • Iloko: “Gresia”
  • Inari Sami: “Kreika täsiväldi”
  • Inari Sami: “Kreikka”
  • Indonesian: “Yunani”
  • Ingush: “Эллада”
  • Ingush: “Янехье”
  • Interlingua: “Grecia”
  • Interlingue: “Grecia”
  • Irish: “an Ghréig”
  • Irish: “An Ghréig”
  • Irish: “Gréig”
  • Irish: “Poblacht Heilléanach”
  • Irish: “Poblacht Heilléineach”
  • Italian: “Grecia”
  • Italian: “Repubblica Ellenica”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Griis”
  • Japanese: “ギリシア”
  • Japanese: “ギリシャ”
  • Japanese: “ギリシャ共和国”
  • Japanese: “希”
  • Japanese: “希臘”
  • Javanese: “Grikenlan”
  • Javanese: “Yunani”
  • Jèrriais: “Grêce”
  • Kabardian: “Алыджей”
  • Kabiyè: “Krɛsɩ”
  • Kabuverdianu: “Grésia”
  • Kabyle: “Legrig”
  • Kalaallisut: “Grækenlandi”
  • Kalaallisut: “Grækerit Nunaat”
  • Kalmyk: “Грисин Орн”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Greekako them”
  • Kalo Finnish Romani: “Kreekako them”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ರೀಸ್”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Greciya”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Gretsiya”
  • Karachay-Balkar: “Греция”
  • Karekare: “Girìis”
  • Kashmiri: “گریٖس”
  • Kashmiri: “یوٗنان”
  • Kashubian: “Greckô”
  • Kazakh: “Грекия”
  • Khmer: “ក្រិក”
  • Khmer: “ក្រិច”
  • Kikuyu: “Ngiriki”
  • Kikuyu: “Ugiriki”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ubugereki”
  • Kirghiz: “Грекия”
  • Kirghiz: “Греция”
  • Kölsch: “Jrihscheland”
  • Komering: “Yunani”
  • Komi-Permyak: “Эллада”
  • Komi: “Эллада”
  • Kongo: “Gelesi”
  • Korean: “그리스”
  • Kotava: “Ellasa”
  • Kurdish: “Grekistan”
  • Kurdish: “Yewnanistan”
  • Kurdish: “یۆنان”
  • Ladin: “Grecia”
  • Ladino: “Gresia”
  • Lao: “Greece”
  • Lao: “Hellenic Republic”
  • Lao: “ກຣີຊ”
  • Lao: “ເກຣັກ”
  • Lao: “ສາທາລະນະລັດ ເກຣັກ”
  • Lao: “ປະເທດເກຣັກ”
  • Latgalian: “Grekeja”
  • Latin: “Graecia”
  • Latvian: “Grieķija”
  • Lezghian: “Греция”
  • Ligurian: “Greçia”
  • Ligurian: “Grêcia”
  • Limburgan: “Griekeland”
  • Lingala: “Geleki”
  • Lingala: “Gresi”
  • Lingua Franca Nova: “Elas”
  • Literary Chinese: “希臘”
  • Literary Chinese: “希臘共和國”
  • Lithuanian: “Graikija”
  • Lithuanian: “Graikijos Respublika”
  • Liv: “Grīekmō”
  • Livvi: “Gretsii”
  • Livvi: “Griekanmua”
  • Lojban: “xesygu’e”
  • Lombard: “Grecia”
  • Low German: “Grekenland”
  • Low German: “Griekenlaand”
  • Lower Sorbian: “Grichiska”
  • Luba-Katanga: “Ngeleka”
  • Lule Sami: “Grehka”
  • Lule Sami: “Greklánnda”
  • Luxembourgish: “Griicheland”
  • Luxembourgish: “Griichesch Republik”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hellas”
  • Luxembourgish: “Hellenesch Republik”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Gârția”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Gãrtsia”
  • Macedo-Romanian: “Gãrtsii”
  • Macedonian: “Грција”
  • Madurese: “Yunani”
  • Magahi: “यूनान”
  • Magahi: “हेलेनिक गणराज्य”
  • Maithili: “ग्रीस”
  • Maithili: “यूनान”
  • Malagasy: “Gresy”
  • Malagasy: “Grisia”
  • Malagasy: “Grisy”
  • Malay: “Greece”
  • Malay: “Yunani”
  • Malayalam: “ഗ്രീസ്”
  • Maltese: “Greċja”
  • Maltese: “il-Greċja”
  • Maltese: “Repubblika Ellenika”
  • Manipuri: “ꯒ꯭ꯔꯤꯁ”
  • Manx: “Ellada”
  • Manx: “Ellas”
  • Manx: “Greag”
  • Manx: “Greece”
  • Manx: “Hellas”
  • Manx: “Pobblaght y Ghreag”
  • Manx: “y Ghreag”
  • Manx: “y Phobblaght Ghreagagh”
  • Manx: “Yn Ghreag”
  • Maori: “Kirihi”
  • Marathi: “ग्रीस”
  • Mazanderani: “یونان”
  • Min Dong Chinese: “Hĭ-lé-nà̤”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Hi-lia̍p”
  • Minangkabau: “Yunani”
  • Mingrelian: “საბერძნეთი”
  • Mirandese: “Grécia”
  • Moksha: “Грекмастор”
  • Mon: “ဂရိ”
  • Mongolian: “Грек”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “ليونان”
  • Mossi: “Greece”
  • Nauru: “Grit”
  • Navajo: “Dahojiyáanii Bikéyah”
  • Neapolitan: “Grecia”
  • Neapolitan: “Grecie”
  • Nepali: “ग्रिस”
  • Nepali: “ग्रीस”
  • Nepali: “यूनान”
  • Newari: “ग्रीस”
  • North Ndebele: “Greece”
  • Northern Frisian: “Grekenlun”
  • Northern Luri: “یوٙنان”
  • Northern Sami: “Greika”
  • Northern Sami: “Greikka dásseváldi”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den hellenske republikk”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Grekenland”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Hellas”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hellas”
  • Norwegian: “Hellas”
  • Novial: “Grekia”
  • Nupe-Nupe-Tako: “Greece”
  • Nyanja: “Greece”
  • Obolo: “Giris”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Grècia”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܘܢ”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܝܘܢܢ”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Crēcland”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Grecland”
  • Oriya: “ଗ୍ରୀସ”
  • Oriya: “ଗ୍ରୀସ୍”
  • Oromo: “Giriik”
  • Ossetian: “Грекъ”
  • Pa'o Karen: “ဂရိခမ်းထီ”
  • Pali: “ग्रीस (यूनान)”
  • Pampanga: “Elenikung Republika”
  • Pampanga: “Gresia”
  • Pampanga: “Gresiya”
  • Pampanga: “Gresya”
  • Pampanga: “Republika ning Gresya”
  • Pampanga: “Republikang Eleniku”
  • Pangasinan: “Gresia”
  • Panjabi: “ਗ੍ਰੀਸ”
  • Panjabi: “ਯੂਨਾਨ”
  • Papiamento: “Gresia”
  • Pedi: “Greece”
  • Pennsylvania German: “Griechenlen”
  • Persian: “یون، یوعون، یوعوآن”
  • Persian: “یونان”
  • Picard: “Grèche”
  • Piemontese: “Grecia”
  • Pitcairn-Norfolk: “Griese”
  • Polish: “Grecja”
  • Polish: “Hellada”
  • Polish: “Republika Grecka”
  • Pontic: “Ελλάδα”
  • Portuguese: “Grécia”
  • Portuguese: “República Helênica”
  • Pushto: “يونان”
  • Pushto: “یونان”
  • Quechua: “Grecia”
  • Quechua: “Grisya”
  • Quechua: “Ilinusuyu”
  • Romanian: “Grecia”
  • Romanian: “Republica Elenă”
  • Romanian: “Republica Greacă”
  • Romanian: “Гречия”
  • Romansh: “Grezia”
  • Rundi: “Grecia”
  • Rundi: “Ubugereki”
  • Rundi: “Ubugiriki”
  • Russia Buriat: “Грек”
  • Russia Buriat: “Греци”
  • Russian: “Греция”
  • Russian: “Греческая Республика”
  • Russian: “Эллада”
  • Rusyn: “Ґреція”
  • Sakizaya: “Greece”
  • Samoan: “Eleni”
  • Samoan: “Kuliti”
  • Samogitian: “Graikėjė”
  • Sango: “Gerêsi”
  • Sanskrit: “यवनदेशः”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱨᱤᱠ”
  • Santali: “ᱜᱨᱤᱥ”
  • Santali: “ᱦᱮᱞᱮᱱᱤᱠ ᱟᱯᱱᱟᱛ”
  • Saraiki: “گریس”
  • Saraiki: “یونان”
  • Sardinian: “Grèghia”
  • Saterfriesisch: “Griechenlound”
  • Scots: “Greece”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A Ghrèig”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Ghrèig”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Ghrèig”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A‘ Ghreug”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “A’ Ghreug”
  • Serbian: “Grčka”
  • Serbian: “Грчка”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Grčka”
  • Shan: “မိူင်းၵရိတ်ႈ”
  • Shona: “Greece”
  • Shona: “Vugiriki”
  • Sicilian: “Grecia”
  • Silesian: “Greckŏ Republika”
  • Silesian: “Grecyjŏ”
  • Sindhi: “يونان”
  • Sinhala: “ග්‍රීසිය”
  • Skolt Sami: “Greikkajânnam”
  • Skolt Sami: “Helleeʹni tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kreikka tääʹssväʹldd”
  • Skolt Sami: “Kreikka”
  • Slovak: “Grécka republika”
  • Slovak: “Grécko”
  • Slovenian: “Grčija”
  • Slovenian: “Helada”
  • Slovenian: “Helenska republika”
  • Somali: “Giriig”
  • Somali: “Giriiga”
  • South Azerbaijani: “یونان”
  • Southern Sami: “Greeklaante”
  • Spanish: “Grecia”
  • Spanish: “Hélade”
  • Spanish: “Hellás”
  • Spanish: “República Helénica”
  • Sranan Tongo: “Grikikondre”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴳⵔⵉⴽ”
  • Sundanese: “Yunani”
  • Swahili: “Ugiriki”
  • Swati: “IGrikhi”
  • Swedish: “Grekland”
  • Swedish: “Hellas”
  • Swedish: “Hellenska republiken”
  • Swedish: “Republiken Grekland”
  • Swiss German: “Griecheland”
  • Swiss German: “Griechenland”
  • Tachelhit: “Ayunan”
  • Tachelhit: “Lyunan”
  • Tagalog: “Greece”
  • Tagalog: “Gresya”
  • Tahitian: “Herēni”
  • Tajik: “Юнон”
  • Talysh: “Junanyston”
  • Talysh: “Yunanıston”
  • Tamil: “கிரீசு”
  • Tamil: “கிரீஸ்”
  • Tamil: “கிரேக்க நாடு”
  • Tamil: “கிரேக்கக் குடியரசு”
  • Tamil: “கிரேக்கம்”
  • Tamil: “கிறீஸ்”
  • Taroko: “Greece”
  • Tatar: “Греция”
  • Telugu: “గ్రీకు”
  • Telugu: “గ్రీక్”
  • Telugu: “గ్రీస్”
  • Tetum: “Grésia”
  • Thai: “Greece”
  • Thai: “Hellenic Republic”
  • Thai: “กรีซ”
  • Thai: “ประเทศกรีซ”
  • Thai: “สาธารณรัฐเฮลเลนิก”
  • Thai: “เฮลเลนิก”
  • Tibetan: “ཀེ་རི་སི།”
  • Tibetan: “གྷི་རཱི་སི།”
  • Tigrinya: “ግሪክ”
  • Tok Pisin: “Gris”
  • Tonga (Tonga Islands): “Kalisi”
  • Tsonga: “Greece”
  • Tumbuka: “Greece”
  • Tunisian Arabic: “اليونان”
  • Turkish: “Helen Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Yunanistan Cumhuriyeti”
  • Turkish: “Yunanistan”
  • Turkmen: “Gresiýa”
  • Turkmen: “Ýunanystan”
  • Twi: “Hela”
  • Tyap: “Helat”
  • Udmurt: “Греция”
  • Uighur: “گرېتسىيە”
  • Uighur: “گىرېتسىيە”
  • Ukrainian: “Греція”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Grjekska”
  • Urdu: “یونان”
  • Uzbek: “Ellada”
  • Uzbek: “Gretsiya”
  • Uzbek: “Yunoniston”
  • Venetian: “Gresa”
  • Venetian: “Gresia”
  • Venetian: “Repùblega Ełenega”
  • Veps: “Grecii”
  • Veps: “Grecijan Tazolvaldkund”
  • Veps: “Grekanma”
  • Veps: “Grekanman Tazovaldkund”
  • Vietnamese: “Cộng hòa Hy Lạp”
  • Vietnamese: “Hi Lạp”
  • Vietnamese: “Hy Lạp”
  • Vlaams: “Grieknland”
  • Vlax Romani: “Yelenistan”
  • Volapük: “Grikän”
  • Võro: “Kreeka”
  • Walloon: “Grece”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Gresya”
  • Welsh: “Groeg”
  • Welsh: “Gwlad Groeg”
  • Western Armenian: “Յունաստան”
  • Western Balochi: “یونان”
  • Western Frisian: “Grikelân”
  • Western Panjabi: “یونان”
  • Wolof: “Gerees”
  • Wolof: “Girees”
  • Wu Chinese: “希腊”
  • Xhosa: “Grisi”
  • Yakut: “Греция”
  • Yiddish: “גריכנלאנד”
  • Yiddish: “גריכנלאַנד”
  • Yoruba: “Geriisi”
  • Yoruba: “Gíríìsì”
  • Yoruba: “Gríìsì”
  • Yue Chinese: “希臘”
  • Zeeuws: “Griek’nland”
  • Zhuang: “Sihla”
  • Zulu: “i-Greece”
  • Zulu: “IGreki”
  • “GRC”
  • “GRE”
  • “Grecija”
  • “Gresiah”
  • “Gresiah Axkayotl”
  • “ma Elena”
  • “ma Elina”

Balkans: Highlights

Notable places include Romania and Croatia.

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