Athens, Greece

Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, also known since ancient times as Hellas is a transcontinental country located in southeastern 

Europe. 

Greece population is approximately 10.9 million as of 2015. 

Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki.

Greece is strategically located at the cross roads of Europe, Asia, and Africa. 

Situated on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the northeast. 

Greece consists of nine geographic regions: Macedonia, Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, the Aegean Islands (including the Dodecanese and Cyclades), Thrace, Crete, and the Ionian Islands. 

The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. 

Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the 11th longest coastline in the world at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) in length, featuring a vast number of islands, of which 227 are inhabited. 

Eighty percent of Greece is mountainous, with Mount Olympus being the highest peak at 2,918 meters (9,573 ft).

The history of Greece is one of the longest of any country, having been continuously inhabited since 270,000 BC. 

Considered the cradle of Western civilization, Greece is the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, including both tragedy and comedy.

 

 

The Hellenic Army formed in 1828, is the land force of Greece. 

Along with the Hellenic Air Force (HAF) and the Hellenic Navy (HN), it makes up the Hellenic Armed Forces. 

It is currently the largest branch of the three. The army is headed by the chief of the Hellenic Army General Staff (HAGS), which in turn is under the command of Hellenic National Defense General Staff (HNDGS).

The motto of the Hellenic Army is "Freedom Stems from Valour", from Thucydides's History of the Peloponnesian War. 

The Hellenic Army Emblem is the two-headed eagle with a Greek Cross escutcheon in the centre, representing the links between modern Greece, the Greek Orthodox Church, and the Byzantine Empire.

The Hellenic Army is also the main contributor to, and "lead nation" of, the Balkan Battle Group, a combined-arms rapid-response force under the EU Battlegroup structure

There are hundred of reasons that we can provide in order you to well understand why you have - at least one time - visit Greece.

The most simple are: the sea, the sun, the sky, the food, the nightlife, the views, the history, the language, the hospitality, the people.

Welcome to Greece