Reflective Essay for global competency certificate
Greece presentation
2. o Greece is located at the crossroads of
Europe, Asia, Middle East, and Africa.
o Greece has land borders with Albania, the Re-public
of Macedonia, and Bulgaria to the north and Turkey.
o The Aegean Sea lies to the east of Greece, the
Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea
to the South.
o The longest coastline in the word at 13676 km.
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3. • Area :131957km2
• Population:11million
• Language: Greek
• Religion:97% Greek or Orthodox(the rest are Muslims,
Catholics and Jewish.
• Government: Republic
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4. History:
• the first fact of human found in the Petralona
cave which is in Thessaloniki dated to 270
thousands BC in northern Greece.
• One of the oldest civilization in Europe is the
Cycladic around 3200 BC.
• Minoan civilization in Crete (2700 – 1500 BC).
• Mycenaean civilization (1900 – 1100 BC).
• The first Olympic game started 776 BC in
Parthenon Athens.
• The firs Democracy in the world in 508 BC
• By 500 BC Persian impair controlled some
northern lands of Greece.
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5. History:
• The first invasion was 492 BC by
Persia, and the second invasion 480 BC.
• Spartans and other Greek force the
Persian with draw Thermopylae's.
• Alexander III invade and defeated the
Persian Empire and reached to India in
334 BC.
• Greek Empire collapse in 10th AD.
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History:
• Greeks invaded by Ottoman Empire
for about 400 years and had the
independent in Balkan Wars
• It was under German and Italian
occupations until 1944
• The Democracy was restored in
1975
• Greece joined European union 1981
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is the capital and largest
city of Greece. Athens
dominates the Attica region
and is one of the world's
oldest cities.
8. is the largest and most populous of the
Greek islands, the fifth-largest island in
the Mediterranean Sea, and one of the
thirteen administrative regions of
Greece.
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is the second largest Greek
island in area and
population, after Crete. The
narrow Euripus Strait
separates it from Boeotia in
mainland Greece.
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sometimes referred to as Mytilini after
its capital, is a Greek island located in
the northeastern Aegean Sea. It has an
area of 1,632 km2 with 320 kilometres
(almost 200 miles) of coastline, making
it the third largest Greek island. It is
separated from Turkey by the narrow
Mytilini Strait.
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is an island in Greece, located in
the eastern Aegean Sea. It is the
largest of the Dodecanese islands
in terms of both land area and
population, with a population of
115,490 (2011 census) Rhodes
island is famous because the castle
of knights Templar.