greece

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  1. A republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula;
    Known for grapes and olives and olive oil (synset 108798733)
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    • actium - the naval battle in which Antony and Cleopatra were defeated by Octavian's fleet under Agrippa in 31 BC
    • chaeronea - a battle in which Philip II of Macedon defeated the Athenians and Thebans (338 BC) and also Sulla defeated Mithridates (86 BC)
    • battle of lepanto, lepanto - Turkish sea power was destroyed in 1571 by a league of Christian nations organized by the Pope
    • battle of leuctra, leuctra - Thebes defeated Sparta in 371 BC; the battle ended Sparta's military supremacy in Greece
    • mantinea, mantineia - the site of three famous battles among Greek city-states: in 418 BC and 362 BC and 207 BC
    • battle of marathon, marathon - a battle in 490 BC in which the Athenians and their allies defeated the Persians
    • battle of navarino, navarino - a decisive naval battle in the War of Greek Independence (1827); the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by an allied fleet of British and French and Russian warships
    • battle of pharsalus, pharsalus - Caesar defeated Pompey in 48 BC
    • battle of thermopylae, thermopylae - a famous battle in 480 BC; a Greek army under Leonidas was annihilated by the Persians who were trying to conquer Greece
    • balkan wars - two wars (1912-1913) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Europe
    • bay wreath, laurel, laurel wreath - (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory
    • pantheon - (antiquity) a temple to all the gods
    • trojan horse, wooden horse - a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War
    • hybrid, loan-blend, loanblend - a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root)
    • dithyramb - (ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus)
    • greek, hellenic, hellenic language - the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European family of languages
    • paean, pean - (ancient Greece) a hymn of praise (especially one sung in ancient Greece to invoke or thank a deity)
    • torch race - (ancient Greece) in which a torch is passed from one runner to the next
    • souvlaki, souvlakia - made of lamb
    • 17 november, revolutionary organization 17 november - a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States; an active terrorist group during the 1980s
    • ela, revolutionary people's struggle - an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974; a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States
    • midas - (Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold
    • sisyphus - (Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again
    • cacodaemon, cacodemon - an evil spirit
    • eudaemon, eudemon, good spirit - a benevolent spirit
    • bacchus - (classical mythology) god of wine; equivalent of Dionysus
    • choragus - (ancient Greece) leader of a group or festival; leader of a chorus
    • sibyl - (ancient Rome) a woman who was regarded as an oracle or prophet
    • optative, optative mood - a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs
    is an instance of: balkan country, balkan nation, balkan state - any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula
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    • achaea - a region of ancient Greece on the north coast of the Peloponnese
    • aegina, aigina - an island in the Aegean Sea in the Saronic Gulf
    • chios, khios - an island in the Aegean Sea off the west coast of Turkey; belongs to Greece
    • cyclades, kikladhes - a group of over 200 islands in the southern Aegean
    • dhodhekanisos, dodecanese - a group of islands in the southeast Aegean Sea
    • doris - a small region of ancient Greece where the Doric dialect was spoken
    • lesbos, lesvos, mytilene - an island of eastern Greece in the eastern Aegean Sea; in antiquity it was famous for lyric poetry
    • rhodes, rodhos - a Greek island in the southeast Aegean Sea 10 miles off the Turkish coast; the largest of the Dodecanese; it was colonized before 1000 BC by Dorians from Argos; site of the Colossus of Rhodes
    • crete, kriti - the largest Greek island in the Mediterranean; site of the Minoan civilization that reached its peak in 1600 BC
    • ithaca, ithaki - a Greek island to the west of Greece; in Homeric legend Odysseus was its king
    • athos, mount athos - an autonomous area in northeastern Greece that is the site of several Greek Orthodox monasteries founded in the tenth century
    • athens, athinai, capital of greece, greek capital - the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)
    • actium - an ancient town on a promontory in western Greece
    • attica - the territory of Athens in ancient Greece where the Ionic dialect was spoken
    • corinth, korinthos - the modern Greek port near the site of the ancient city that was second only to Athens
    • argos - an ancient city in southeastern Greece; dominated the Peloponnese in the 7th century BC
    • delphi - an ancient Greek city on the slopes of Mount Parnassus; site of the oracle of Delphi
    • mycenae - an ancient city is southern Greece; center of the Mycenaean civilization during the late Bronze Age
    • epirus - an ancient area on the Ionian Sea that flourished as a kingdom in the 3rd century BC; located in northwestern Greece and southern Albania
    • laconia - an ancient region of southern Greece in the southeastern Peloponnesus; dominated by Sparta
    • nemea - a valley in southeastern Greece where the Nemean Games were held
    • boeotia - a district of ancient Greece to the northwest of Athens
    • salonica, salonika, thessalonica, thessaloniki - a port city in northeastern Greece on an inlet of the Aegean Sea; second largest city of Greece
    • stagira, stagirus - an ancient town of Greece where Aristotle was born
    • thessalia, thessaly - a fertile plain on the Aegean Sea in east central Greece; Thessaly was a former region of ancient Greece
    • arcadia - a department of Greece in the central Peloponnese
    • peloponnese, peloponnesian peninsula, peloponnesus - the southern peninsula of Greece; dominated by Sparta until the 4th century BC
    • lemnos, limnos - a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea; famous for a reddish-brown clay that has medicinal properties
    • mount olympus, mt. olympus, olimbos, olympus - a mountain peak in northeast Greece near the Aegean coast; believed by ancient Greeks to be the dwelling place of the gods (9,570 feet high)
    • liakoura, mount parnassus, parnassus - (Greek mythology) a mountain in central Greece where (according to Greek mythology) the Muses lived; known as the mythological home of music and poetry
    • gulf of aegina, saronic gulf - a gulf of the Aegean on the southeastern coast of Greece
    is a part of: europe - the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use `Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles
    same as: ellas, hellenic republic
  2. Ancient Greece;
    A country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCE (synset 108800171)
    is a type of: balkan country, balkan nation, balkan state - any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula

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