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AC (automobile)

According to the plans, the Mk II of these models would be produced in Germany in conjunction with the Mk VI, while the 378 GT Zagato would be manufactured in South Africa by Hi-Tech Automotive, which is also the original owner of the Superperformance company that was involved in AC for a while in the 1990s.


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The Kingdom of Spain (), or Spain (), is a state located in southwestern Europe.


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It shares the Iberian Peninsula with Portugal and Gibraltar, which belongs to Great Britain.


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In the northeast, beyond the border are France and the small Principality of Andorra, and to the south is the land border with Morocco (see.


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Ceuta and Melilla).


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The country includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea, the Canary Islands in the Atlantic, the cities of Ceuta and Melilla in North Africa, and a few uninhabited islands off the coast of Morocco.


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The capital of Spain is Madrid.


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Other major cities include Barcelona, Valencia, Seville, Málaga, Bilbao and Zaragoza.


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The ancient Romans recaptured Spain from Carthage in the Second Punic War, and Latin used by the Romans is the basis of the Spanish language.


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The Muslim Moors ruled Spain for 300 years between 700 and 1000.


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In the 15th century, the small Catholic kingdoms that ruled the country were united in stages by 1512.


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United Spain became a mighty colonial power.


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In the 18th century, it lost its controlled foreign lands in Spain and in the 19th century its colony.


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The civil war, which began in 1936, was followed by Franco's military dictatorship until 1975.


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Of the country's roughly 47 million inhabitants, three-quarters speak Spanish as their native language, which is the official language of the entire country.


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Other, regionally official languages include Catalan (or Valencian), Galician, Basque, and Aranese.


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[1] Geography of Spain is located on the Pyrenees Peninsula.


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To the north, the country is bounded by the Pyrenees mountain range, and to the south the Mediterranean coast is separated inland by the Sierra Nevada mountain range.


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The capital Madrid is located in the central highlands at an altitude of 650 meters.


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There are several mountains over 2000 meters high, with the highest peaks rising to more than 3000 meters.


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[2] There are about 1800 rivers in Spain, but many of them carry little water and may be dry for part of the year.


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[3] Vegetation and climate vary drastically between the coast and inland, as well as with elevation.


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In summer, almost everywhere it is hot and dry, but in winter there are large temperature differences between different regions.


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In the mountains can be skied, while the coast is much warmer.


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[4] The average lowest temperature of the coldest month of the year, January, in A Coruna, is 7.6 degrees Celsius, [5] in Valladolid at −1.2 degrees.


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[6] In northern Spain, it rains abundant on the shores of the Bay of Biscay, with partly temperate and partly subtropical deciduous forests growing there.


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In these forests, some of the trees drop their leaves for the winter, while some keep them year-round.


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In southern Spain, Mediterranean forests grow on the shores of the Mediterranean alwaysgreen with oak species and olive trees.


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Beyond the mountains, central parts of Spain have deserts where it rains only rarely.


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Only rocky plants grow on them.


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There are only deserts on nearby islands in the Canary Islands Africa, but La Palma grows whey subtropical vegetation.


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Longest rivers Tajo 1010km Ebro 910km Douro 895km Guadiana 830kmHighest mountains Teide 3710 m Mulhacén 3481 m Aneto 3404 m Pico de Almanzor 2962 mLargest islands Majorca 3620km² Tenerife 2034km² Fuerteventura 1660km² Gran Canaria 1560km² Doñanan National Park Sierra Nevada La Rioja Province is a well-known wine region Windmills in Castile- La Mancha region Teide volcano in Tenerife History Early history and Muslim power The oldest signs of modern man in Spain date back 35,000 years.


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The earliest known inhabitants of Spain by name were the Iberi, whose language spoken was not Indo-European.


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[7] In the millennium preceding the beginning of the period, the Phoenicians, Greeks and Carthaginians established trading bases in Spain.


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The Romans recaptured Spain from Carthage in the Second Punic War in the 200th century BCE.


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and in the following century the so-called Celtiber Wars were fought between the Celtiber tribes and the Romans.


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The Latin used by the Romans is inherited by the Spanish language.


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During the break-up of Western Rome beginning in the 4th century, Germanic tribes such as the Goths and the Vandals established short-lived kingdoms in Spanish territory.


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[8] In the 7th century, Spain was quickly conquered by the Muslim Moors.


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The capital of Islamic Spain, Córdoba, was the most prosperous and civilized center of its time in Europe.


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[9] Christianity and the Great Power Period The history of present-day Spain began in the 10th century, when Christian kingdoms began the recapture of the Iberian Peninsula (Reconquista) from the Muslim Moors.


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In 1469 [10] the Kingdoms of Aragon and Castile officially united when the monarchs King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella married.


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Together, the Catholic Kingdoms defeated the last Moorish rulers of the Iberian Peninsula on 2 January 1492 and annexed Granada to Aragon and Castile, the same year that Christopher Columbus discovered America.


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In 1512, King Ferdinand conquered part of the Kingdom of Navarre and all of Spain was united.


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An Inquisition was set up in support of the church, and Jews and Muslims were converted or expelled from the country.


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[11] In the 16th century, Spain became the most powerful country in Europe for a while because of its conquests in the Americas.


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The Ottoman fleet was beaten in the 1571 Naval Battle of Lepanto.


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The kingdom was annexed by the Philippines in 1564 and by Portugal in 1580, but the English conquest failed in 1588 with the loss of the Spanish Armada of the Invincible to the English Navy.


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Despite the gold imported from the Americas under Philip II, 1556—1578, the state economy collapsed due to numerous wars and immense construction projects.


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Under subsequent rulers, decay continued and numerous territories were lost.


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Portugal broke away from the Union in 1640 and the Catalans revolted.


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[12] From the War of Succession to Civil War In 1701—1714, the War of the Spanish Succession was fought (Spain, France and Bavaria versus Austria, Prussia, England and Catalonia).


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The war ended with the victory of the French-led federation and the ruler lineage of the Habsburgs switched to the Bourbon lineage.


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Spain lost the rest of its foreign territories in Europe: to Austria, territories in Italy and Belgium, Savoy Sicily and Gibraltar fell to England.


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[13] In 1805, at the Battle of Trafalgar, the English fleet led by Horatio Nelson defeated the French and Spanish fleets.


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Napoléon installed his brother Joseph Bonaparte on the Spanish throne in 1808, but, supported by the English, the occupying forces were driven out as Napoleon ran into trouble in Russia and in 1814 the Bourbons re-ascended the throne.


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During the French occupation, the colonies in South America had become independent and the economic situation was poor.


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Numerous civil wars were fought between different nationalities and between monarchists and republicans.


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In the 1898 Spanish-American War, Spain lost its colonial Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Guam to the United States.


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[14] Civil War and Franco's Time In 1931 Spain became a democratic republic, which however drifted again into the 1936 civil war.


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The war originated as a military revolt led by the military against the government of the republic.


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Germany and Italy provided support to the national forces and the Soviet Union to the republicans.


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Tens of thousands of foreign volunteers on both the republican and national sides also participated in the war.


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Hundreds of thousands of people were executed during and after the war [15].


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After the Civil War in 1939, power was taken by General Francisco Franco on the winning side.


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He ruled until his death in 1975 as dictator.


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After World War II, Spain was isolated until 1953 concluded a treaty with the U.S. on military bases and qualified 1955 as a member of the UN.


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The Spanish economy suffered significantly from the isolation and poor productivity of Franco's time.


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In 1959, under IMF guidance, Spain began to consolidate the economy and liberalise trade and capital flows.


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In the early 1960s, through economic reforms and foreign aid, tourism and industry were finally brought to a boom.


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[16] The new monarchy upon Franco's death Spain reverted to a monarchy and Franco's chosen successor, Juan Carlos I.


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He appointed Adolfo Suárez as Prime Minister.


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Suárez initiated reforms allowing political parties in 1977.


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The same year also saw the first free elections.


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With the 1978 Constitution, the historical regions Basque Country, Catalonia and Galicia also gained self-government.


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As recently as 1981, Franco's backers under Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero attempted a coup, demanding the restoration of authoritarian rule.


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The failure of the capture is considered a merit of the king's influence.


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[16] Since the 1970s, Spain has developed into a modern industrial society for which tourism is a major industry.


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The country joined 1982 NATO and 1986 the European Union.


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Joining the EU has brought cohesion subsidies to the country, which have helped push living standards closer to the European average.


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The Basque Liberation Army ETA, founded in 1959, has conducted attentates in Spain for decades.


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In 1973, it slain Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco.


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ETA has declared ceasefires 1997—98 and 2006—07, as well as 2010.


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[17] In recent years ETA has no more strikes against civilians.


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In 2004, Islamist terrorists struck Madrid.


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[18] José María Aznar ascended to Prime Minister in 1996 when his party, the PP, secured a meagre electoral victory with the support of moderate Basque nationalists.


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PP new its victory in 2000 with crushing figures.


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In 2004, the Socialist Party came to power and Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero became prime minister.


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He, too, made it to a second term after winning the 2008 season.


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[17] Mariano Rajoy served as Prime Minister from 2011 to 2018.


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Since June 2018, Pedro Sánchez of the Socialists has served as Prime Minister.


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Politics Spain is a constitutional monarchy.


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The Parliament (Cortes Generales) is bicameral.


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The 350 members of the lower house or Chamber of Deputies (Congreso de los Diputados) are elected by proportional representation using the D'Hondt method for four-year terms.


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Of the 266 members of the upper house, or Senate (Senado), 208 are elected by direct popular vote, while the remaining 58 are appointed to office by regional law-making bodies.


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They, too, serve a four-year term.


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Executive power is exercised by the Council of Ministers, whose chairman, the Prime Minister, is elected by the Parliament at the suggestion of the King.


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The Partido Popular PP, the conservative party sitting in Spain's government, and the PSOE, the socialist party, have alternated in power since the 1980s.


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In the May 2014 European parliamentary elections, their challenger became the Podemos party, founded in March of the same year.


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Its roots lie in the protest movement against economic discipline that began in May 2011.


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[19] Spain is divided into autonomous communities with varying sovereignty.


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Some have their own education and health systems, others do not.


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Some, especially those dominated by nationalist parties, seek federal or even confederation-level self-rule.


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The central government has sought to limit the power of the most zealous autonomous communities.


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The autonomous community of Catalonia declared independence on 27 October 2017.


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[20] Still on the same day, the Spanish Senate decided to limit Catalonia's self-government, that is, introduced Article 155 of the Constitution.


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The head of Catalonia's regional government, Carles Puigdemont, and his government were dismissed.


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[21] Administrative Regions Autonomous Communities The 1978 Constitution divides Spain into seventeen autonomous communities (comunidades autónomas).


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[16] The autonomous communities consist of one or more provinces (provincias), of which there are fifty in total.


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[22] Largest cities cityPopulation 1.1.2016 [23] 1.Madrid3 165 5412.Barcelona1 608 7463.Valencia790 2014.Sevilla690 5665.Zaragoza661 1086. Málaga569 0097.Murcia441 0038.Las Palmas de Gran Canaria378,9989.Palma de Mallorca402,94910.Bilbao345 12211.Alicante330 52512.Córdoba326 60913.Valladolid301 87614.Vigo292 81715.Gijón273,422 Autonomous Region Largest Cities Economy Spain is a service-intensive Western economy, whose statistical gross domestic product per capita has been lower since World War II than in Western Central Europe and Northern Europe.


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Spain's purchasing power adjusted gross domestic product in 2018 is around US$1.86 trillion, or about US$40000 per capita, according to an International Monetary Fund estimate.


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Like other Western developed economies, Spain's share of the global economy is also slowly declining; in 2018 it is estimated to be around 1.4%.


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[24] The most prominent industrial branches in Spain include textiles and footwear, food, metals, chemicals, ships, automobiles, machinery and tools.


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Spain is the world's fifth and Europe's third largest manufacturer of cars.


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Major export products include machinery, vehicles, food, pharmaceuticals and other consumer goods.


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The biggest destination countries for exports are France, Germany, Portugal, Italy and Britain.


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[25] Tourism is an important industry for Spain.


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In 2012, the country was the fourth most popular tourist destination in the world by number of visitors: 57.7 million tourists visited it during the year.


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[26] In 2016, Spain was the third most popular tourist destination in the world with a new record of 75.3 million tourists.


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Spain's most significant natural resources are coal, iron ore, uranium, lignite, mercury, lead, zinc and copper, various industrial minerals such as kaolin, and hydropower and fertile farmland.


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[25] Unemployment has cast a shadow over the Spanish economy.


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In the first quarter of 2013, unemployment rose to 27.2%, with more than six million Spaniards out of work.


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[27] At the same time, 57% of young people aged 15 to 24 were unemployed.


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[27] 70.3% of workers are employed in the service sector, 26.4% in industry and 3.3% in agriculture (2012 estimate).


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[25] In 2016, unemployment fell below 20% for the first time and at the beginning of 2017 reached its lowest level (18.6%) since 2007.


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According to a study published in 2007, Spain's most productive city was Madrid in 2005, with a gross domestic product of $188 billion.


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The second most productive city in the country was Barcelona at $140 billion.


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[28] The most prominent companies in Spain include CASA (aircraft), El Corte Inglés, Mercadona and Carrefour (retail), Repsol and Cepsa (oil refining), Iberdrola and Endesa (energy and electricity sector), Iberia (airline), Renfe (railways), SEAT (cars), Talgo (locomotives and train cars)), Telefónica (telecommunications), Inditex (a garment manufacturing company), Torres (winery) and Derbi (motorcycles).


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Spain's current account is in mildly surplus: estimated at about $24 billion in 2018.


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Inflation is below 2 per cent.


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[24] Population According to the Spanish Central Bureau of Statistics, the population of the country as of July 1, 2016 was 46.5 million.


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[29] Male population in 2014 was 49.4% and females 50.6%.


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The birth rate per 1,000 people in 2012 was 9.7 and the mortality rate was 8.6.


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Life expectancy for men born in 2011 was 79.1 and 84.9 years for women.


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The population under 15 years of age in 2014 was 15.4%.


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In the cities, 79.4 per cent of Spaniards lived in 2014 and 20.6 per cent on land.


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[30] The official language is Spanish, which is spoken as a native tongue by 74% of the population.


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Minority languages Catalan spoken by 17%, Galego or Galician language (7%), Basque language (2%), are official languages in some regions.


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In 2016, 67.8% of Spaniards were Catholics, 2.2% represented other religions, 27.5% were non-religious, of which 9.1% were atheists and 2.5% did not state their religious affiliation.


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[31] Migration Spain has traditionally been an emigrant country.


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Today, however, with prosperity, the country has become a very popular country for immigration.


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People migrate to Spain, especially from Latin America, Eastern Europe and Africa, but also from Western Europe and China, among others.


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Culture Fine Arts Well-known Spanish painters include Diego Velázquez (1599—1660), Francisco de Goya (1746—1828), Joan Miró (1893—1983), Pablo Picasso (1881—1973) and Salvador Dalí (1904—1989).


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Born in Greece, El Greco (1540—1614) is also considered a Spanish artist, as he influenced in Toledo.


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[32] Art museums Picasso and Dalí paintings are on display in Madrid at the Reina Sofía Museum of Modern Art and Picasso's hometown of Málaga.


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[33] [34] The Prado Museum of Art houses works by Velázquez and Goya, among others.


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[35] Architecture The location of Spain has made it a meeting place for cultures, so the many strata of the world's cultural history can be seen in its architecture strata.


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The settlements of Carthage, Greece and Rome laid the foundation of the culture.


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The Moors brought Islamic influences.


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Romanesque art and architecture developed in the northern parts of the peninsula.


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Light-line Gothic developed as the opposite of Romanesque monasteries.


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The Spanish Baroque appeared at the end of the 16th century.


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[36] The most famous of modern Spanish architects is Antoni Gaudí.


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[37] A wealth of spectacular contemporary architecture has been designed in Spain in recent decades, such as the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao.


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[38] There are 38 cultural sites from Spain on the UNESCO World Heritage List.


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They span in time from the prehistoric paintings and Roman-era ruins of Altamira Cave to Gaudi's 20th-century work in Barcelona.


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The widest destination is the 769km long Santiago de Compostela pilgrimage trail.


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[39] Dance and music in different regions of Spain have their own folk dances.


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Flamenco and the music accompanying it is an Andalusian tradition that has emerged as central to the entire Spanish musical life.


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Jota is of Aragonese origin and sardana of Catalan origin.


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The musical heritage of the Celts has been preserved in northern Spain.


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In 18th-century Spain, the bolero developed, in which slow solo or pair dancing is accompanied by chesttanets and guitar.


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Paso doble is a Spanish dance and also a competitive dance genre with references to bullfighting.


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[40] Spanish musicians like Andrés Segovia brought classical guitar to concert stages.


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Many Spanish composers have also used folk music ingredients in their works.


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Spanish light opera, zarzuela, is popular mostly in Spanish-speaking countries, but opera singer Plácido Domingo has made it known even in wider circles.


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[41] Spanish Julio Iglesias is the most popular Latino artist of all time and one of the ten best-selling singers in the world.


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His son Enrique Iglesias has also had success as a singer.


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The highest selling female artist in Spain is light music singer Rocío Dúrcal.


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Among the bands, international success has been achieved, for example, by Baccara in the 1970s.


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Spain has won the Eurovision twice, in 1968 and 1969.


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[42] Films and Television During the silent film period, Spanish film makers had contacts mainly with France.


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1928 Salvador Dalí and Luis Buñuel made the Andalusian Dog.


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Buñuel photographed in addition to France in the United States, other Spanish directors of the era were left without international attention.


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Rafael Rivelles and Juan Calvo won minor awards at the Cannes Film Festival in the 1950s.


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Fernando Rey won the Golden Palm with the 1961 film Viridia, whose performance was immediately denied by Franco.


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Buñuel moved to Mexico in 1949, and other film makers collaborated with Mexicans.


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When spaghetti westerns came into fashion, in turn films set in Mexico, such as Only a Few Dollars Star, were filmed in Spain.


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Under Franco, Spain was in isolation from European culture.


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Carlos Saura's Hunting Trip was awarded the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1966.


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Franco's death in 1975 liberated an entire generation, spearheaded by Pedro Almodóvar.


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Almodóvar's breakthrough was Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, which also brought Carmen Maura and Antonio Banderas into international consciousness.


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Bigas Luna portrayed Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem's first encounter in the film Ham, Ham.


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Fernando Trueba won an Oscar in 1992 with the film Belle Époque — a time of changes.


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In the 21st century, a new generation has risen, particularly fond of horror and fantasy.


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[43] Alejandro Amenábar's Sea Inside Me (2004) won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.


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[44] Spanish television series include the Serrano family, Franco's time - this is how we experienced it and Neighbours in Madrid.


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[45] Literature The oldest surviving written work in Spanish is the poetry Cantar de Mio Cid, written in the 12th century, the oldest surviving copy of which dates from 1207.


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The songs of the poem tell of the stages of the legendary warlord El Cid.


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[46] Spain's best-known author is Miguel de Cervantes (1547—1616), whose major work Don Quixote (1605 and 1615) is a marking work of world literature and the founder of modern romance literature.


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The Golden Age of Spanish culture in the 16th and 17th centuries also included playwright Félix Lope de Vega and writer Francisco de Quevedo.


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[46] Benito Pérez Galdós (1843—1920) was the most prominent Spanish writer of his own time.


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The country's most famous poet is Federico García Lorca (1898—1936).


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Some of the most famous Spanish writers of modern times include Camilo José Cela (1916—2002), Manuel Vázquez Montalbán (1939—2003), Antonio Muñoz Molina (born 1956), Arturo Pérez-Reverte (born 1951), Carlos Ruiz Zafón (born 1964), Javier Marías (born 1951) and Almudena Grandes (pp.


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[46] The Nobel Prize in Literature is the Spanish recipients José Echegaray y Eizaguirre 1904, Jacinto Benavente 1922, Juan Ramón Jiménez 1956, Vicente Aleixandre 1977 and Camilo José Cela 1989.


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[47] From writers in other countries to their own production, for example Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell have drawn Spanishness.


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[48] Languages Spanish is a linguistically rich country where several regional languages are spoken.


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The largest and official language of all of Spain is Spanish.


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It is taught in schools across the country.


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[49] It also serves as an official teaching, communication and cultural language.


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The other official languages are the regional languages Catalan, Galego and Basque [49].


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Aragonese, Occitan, Asturias, Extremadura and Fala are also spoken regionally in the country.


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Media State-owned public service Radiotelevisión Española broadcasts eight television channels, of these TVE1 and TVE2, news channel, sports channel and children's channel are nationwide channels of digitv, in addition, RTVE has additional services displayed on satellite and cable.


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Private channels include Antena 3, Cuatro and Telecinco.


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The country also has thirteen regional television channels, funded by regional governments, and numerous local television stations.


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[50] The largest magazines in Spain are El País, El Mundo, El Periódico, La Vanguardia and ABC.


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[50] Alongside these have rapidly sprung up free distribution magazines, which have reached more than a million daily readers: 20 minutos, Qué! , Metro Directo and ADN.


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[51] Food and drink culture.


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Typical Spanish national dishes include paella (a rice dish containing e.g.


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vegetables, meat or fish, bell peppers and saffron), gazpacho (cold vegetable soup, which includes e.g.


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garlic, cucumber, tomato, bell peppers, wine vinegar, olive oil and pieces of bread), sopa de ajo (garlic soup), lentil soup and tortilla española (Spanish potato omelet).


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Various tapas are popular.


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Tapas can be served with olives, meatballs, shrimp, chorizo sausage, ham cubes, pickled peppers or champignons, stuffed artichoke bases, peeled almonds and paneled octopus rings.


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[52] An internationally known cheese is Queso Manchego from La Mancha Province.


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[53] The main meal of the day is typically eaten at 2pm ashore in the afternoon, and families often gather for lunch at home.


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On the other hand, everyone can enjoy breakfast at their own pace, and tapas can also be taken in the bar or café as a supportive snack in the evening.


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The actual dinner is eaten again among the family, typically at 10 o'clock in the evening.


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[41] Coffee is served black (café solo), with a splash of milk (café cortado) or with hot milk (café con leche).


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[54] Non-alcoholic milky horchata de chufa tastes like almond and is made from a sweet nut species.


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[55] Spain is well known as a wine country.


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Known around the world are wines from Rioja, cava (a sparkling Catalan wine) and sherry, or jerez from Andalusia, Jerez de la Frontera.


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[56] Sangría is a popular wine and fruit drink, but is drunk more by tourists than locals.


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[57] As a food drink, beer (cerveza) is also popular.


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Spanish beers tend to be topping and refreshing.


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Holidays.


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National holidays include: [58] 1.1.


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Año Nuevo (New Year's Day) 6.1.


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Epifanía del Señor (Epiphany) 19.3.


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San José (Father's Day) Easter Jueves Santo, Viernes Santo (Maundy Thursday, Good Friday) 1.5.


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Fiesta del Trabajo (May Day) July 25th


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Santiago Apostol (patron saint of Spain) 15 Aug.


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Asunción de la Virgen (Day of the Ascension of Mary) 12 October


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Fiesta Nacional de España, Día de la Hispanidad (National Day) 1 November


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Todos los Santos (All Saints' Day) 6 December


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Día de la Constitución Española (Constitutional Day) 8 December


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Inmaculada Concepción (Day of Virginal Birthday) December 25


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Natividad del Señor (Christmas Day) Holidays may vary in different parts of the country.


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In addition, each provincial capital usually has two of its own feast days per year.


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[58] Sports Spain's Barcelona hosted the Summer Olympics in 1992.


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Spain participated in the Olympic Games for the first time in 1900 and has participated since 1920.


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In recent years, it has had a team of about 300 athletes at the Summer Olympics, 10 to 20 athletes at the Winter Olympics.


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[59] The Spanish national football team won the world championship in 2010 and finished fourth in 1950.


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In the European Football Championship, Spain has won the title in 1964, 2008 and 2012.


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In Olympic football, the country won gold at its home Games in 1992 and silver in 1920 and 2000.


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[60] Club teams FC Barcelona and Real Madrid are also among the top teams in the world.


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[61] The Spanish futsal national team is the number one in the world.


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Spain is one of the strongest basketball countries in the world.


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In handball, too, it's been strong.


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[62] The most popular of racquet games in Spain is tennis, where the country has also performed well.


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Spain have won the Davis Cup four times [63] and the Fed Cup five times.


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[64] The country's most famous players include former number one player on the world list and Rafael Nadal, selected as the best athlete of 2010.


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[65] [66] Popular national racquet games include frontón and padel.


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In golf, Spain has had several world highs.


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[62] Cycling is one of the most popular sports in Spain and the Tour of Spain in September is one of the three major road cycling races.


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Power sport success has come, especially in judo.


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[62] Motorsport has been successful including rally driver Carlos Sainz and Formula One driver Fernando Alonso.


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Formula One sectionals have been run near Barcelona since 1991.


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[67] There are several ski resorts in the mountains of Spain.


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Among winter athletes, especially figure skaters have been successful.


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The coasts have good sailing opportunities, and Spain has a lot of success in sailing.


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[62] Bullfighting Bullfighting is a traditional and popular folk amusement in Spain, as well as a form of artistic and cultural tradition.


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The sector employs a quarter of a million people directly or indirectly in the country.


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However, the popularity of bullfighting in recent decades has fallen from before and has been criticized.


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The bull runs of Pamplona's July San Fermín festival are also a big media event.


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[68] Sources Helminen, Juha & Korppi-Tommola, Aura & Korppi-Tommola, Juha (1994), Spain from dictatorship to democracy.


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Helsinki: Kleo and Modern Day.


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Indo-European Greeks arrived in the territory of present-day Greece no later than around 2000 BCE.


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[1] As early as the 6th century BCE.


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Greeks held not only present-day Greece but parts of present-day Turkey (Anatolia), Cyprus, Italy and Libya.


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Ancient Greece especially in its classical period between the 400th and 3rd centuries BCE.


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can be considered the cradle of the entire western culture.


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The conquests of Alexander the Great in the 3rd century BCE.


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also brought the regions of Egypt, Syria and Mesopotamia into the Greek cultural sphere.


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These were part of the Greek world for several centuries, later, among other parts of the Byzantine Empire.


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By the time of the 15th century, however, almost all Greeks had come under the control of the Ottoman Empire.


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The present Greek state came into existence when Greece declared independence from the Ottoman Empire in 1822 and independence was recognized in 1830.


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[2] [3] These articles therefore cover both the history of the Greek state and the history of the Greeks.


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It was not until the 19th and 20th centuries, with the establishment and independence of the Greek state, that these two histories combine to form the history of one particular region.


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Prehistory Stone Age The area of Greece has been one of the earliest inhabited areas in Europe.


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The settlement spread to Greece in the Paleolithic, or Older Stone Age, from the east or north.


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[4] A hominid skull has been found in the Petrálona cave at Chalkidikí, the age of which has most commonly been estimated at around — years.


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[5] [6] Early signs of Paleolithic period settlement in Greece have also been found in Thessaly.


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The era was lived as hunter-gatherers and inhabited caves.


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The settlements were not yet built, and no farming or pottery was known.


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The Paleolithic period lasted until about 7000 BCE.


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[1] Around 7000 BC.


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Northern Greece is known to have had a history of Neolithic, or Late Stone Age farming.


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[1] The first to use farming was the fertile plains of Thessaly in particular.


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The Neolithic period also saw the beginning of the construction of settlements and, a little later, the manufacture of pottery.


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The most notable known Neolithic period dwellings in Greece are Sésklo (ca.


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7500—6200 BC.


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from) and Dimíni (ca.


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5000—4000 BC.


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from), both of which are located in Thessaly near Vólo.


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[2] The earliest signs of burials are from Fránchth Cave on the Argol Peninsula from about the period 7250 BCE.


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[7] The cultures of the Greek region became more developed around 3500—3000 BCE.


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At that time larger settlements emerged with clay brick houses and streets.


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Social organisation and social classes can also be observed in communities of the time.


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At the centre of the settlement was a building similar to the community leader's palace-like.


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The communities engaged in farming and fishing, produced pottery, and engaged in shipping and trade.


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Also from that period are the first signs of religion, such as clay figurines of women and animals left on shrines and tombs.


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The female characters presumably played some sort of mother goddess or country mother.


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[2] [4] The Neolithic period lasted until about 3200 BCE.


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up to.


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The Bronze Age Bronze Age began in Greek around 3200 BCE.


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[1] Bronze age cultures in the Greek region are collectively referred to as the Aegean cultures.


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They include Cycladic culture influenced by the Cyclades and other Aegean islands, the Minoan culture mainly influenced by Crete, and a Helladic culture influenced especially in mainland Greece, the final stage of which is known as Mycenaean culture.


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Cultures were affected around the same time.


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There was a lot of interaction between them and in their final stages they practically merged together.


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The first Bronze Age culture of the Aegean was the Cycladic culture.


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It is known, among other things, for its cycladid idols.


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The peak period of culture was around 3200—2300 BCE.


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At the same time, the first urban settlements began to develop on the Aegean islands.


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The settlement of Polióchn, located on Límnos, from the 21st century BCE.


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is among the earliest known cities in all of Europe.


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[4] Minoan and Mycenaean culture were the first high cultures in all of Europe.


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Minoan culture is known above all for the large palace centres it built in Crete, such as Knossos, Faistus and Mália (Mallia).


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The construction of palaces began in the First Palace Period around 2000 BCE.


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and flourished in the Second Palace Period, beginning around 1750—1700 BCE.


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[1] Minoan culture knew the art of writing, and used both Cretan hieroglyphs and linear-A writing.


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However, the culture was neither Indo-European nor Greek-speaking.


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Mycenaean culture evolved from the early and middle Helladic cultures of mainland Greece.


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It was Europe's first Greek-speaking culture.


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The first peoples to speak Greek arrived in the territory of mainland Greece around 2000 BCE.


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The peak period of Mycenaean culture in mainland Greece began around 1600 BCE.


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It took over the core areas of Minoan culture in Crete around 1450 BCE, thus supplanting Minoan culture.


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The Mycenaeans also built palaces, the most famous of which include Mycenae, Tiryns and Pylos in the Peloponnese.


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Also in the late stages of Knossos was a Mycenaean palace.


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The culture wrote Greek in its final stages, and used Linear B writing based on this Minoan prequels.


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Later Greek mythology specifically told reminders of the Mycenaean period, such as the Trojan War, which may have been set around the period 1250—1200 BCE.


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Mycenaean culture collapsed in the 12th century BCE.


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[1] Dark centuries after the collapse of Mycenaean culture around 1100 BCE.


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In Greece, the so-called dark centuries began, lasting until about 900—800 BCE.


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They were a more troubled and worse known time, when culture regressed, communities became poorer, and writing skills disappeared.


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At the same time, Greece went from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age.


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The Doorites, who came further north, are traditionally considered to have conquered much of western Greece, the Peloponnese peninsula, as well as Crete, among others, around 1000—900 BCE.


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This is called Doorish trekking.


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In the era, there were many other internationalmigrations of Greek peoples in the region.


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Around 1000—850 BC.


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evolved into the kingdoms of the homeric period.


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The focus of the army shifted to infantry soldiers, or hoplites.


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During the Dark Centuries of the Early Iron Age, a new culture of ancient Greek origin began to emerge, known for its pottery decorated with geometric motifs.


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It shows, at the same time, a cultural and economic recovery and an increase in commerce.


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The so-called protogeometric period comprises the early days of the dark centuries around 1050—900 BCE.


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The actual geometric period circa the years 900—700 BCE.


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extends up to the ensuing period of antiquity.


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Ancient Greece Archaic Period In the Geometric Period around 800 BCE.


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since then the Polis, or Greek city-states, emerged.


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In them, a new and flourishing culture began to develop, which took shape into the ancient Greek culture.


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Its early period around 700—480 BCE.


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known as the Greek Archaic Period.


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[1] The first historically known Olympian Games were held in 776 BC, where the historical period in Greece begins.


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Around the same time, a Greek alphabetic script was developed, following the Phoenician example.


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It was used right from the beginning for fiction as well.


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Ancient Greek literature, and at the same time Western literature as a whole, originated with the Iliad and Odyssey of Homer's works around 750—700 BCE.


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Ancient Greek architecture began to take its shape when the first Doorite temple, the Olympian Temple of Hera, was built around 600 BCE.


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[1] Of the Greek city-states, Athens and Sparta were the most notable.


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City-states also emerged in abundance outside present-day Greece, particularly on the west coast of Asia Minor and southern Italy (Magna Graecia), as well as elsewhere along the Mediterranean coasts, with the Greeks establishing settlements in these areas.


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The philosophy developed in Asia Minor in the Greek settlements of the Ionian coast around 600 BCE.


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Athens is particularly known for its democracy, which developed from the late 5th century BCE.


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[1] In art history, the early stage of the Archaic period was still through geometric.


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Time around 700—600 BCE.


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is called the orientalising period, as the art of the time was much influenced by the East.


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The art-historical Archaic period proper comprises approximately the years 600—480 BCE.


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Classical period of the 4th century BCE.


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in the beginning, the Greeks waged the so-called Persian Wars against Persia.


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In them, the Greek city-states were able to overcome the Persian threat and practically saved the budding Western civilization.


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The war is particularly remembered for the battles of Marathon, Thermopylai and Salami.


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The Archaic period is considered to have changed into the Classical Period with the victory in the Persian Wars around the year 480 BCE.


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The Classical Period marks the greatest heyday of Greek culture.


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The era saw the creation of many of the character works of Greek sculpture, theatre, philosophy, rhetoric and historiography.


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Classical period culture flourished especially in Athens, a manifestation of which include the Acropolis and the Parthenon.


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For a time, the city attained the leadership of the Greek world with the help of the Delos maritime union.


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4th-century BC


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in the latter half, the Great “Civil War” of the Greek world saw the Peloponnesian War, with Athens and Sparta in particular opposing each other.


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[1] Mutual wars between the Greeks continued between Athens, Sparta and Thebes into the 3rd century BCE.


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in the early part.


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The Classical period turned to its end when Greece was conquered by the Macedonian Empire.


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Hellenistic period 3rd-century BCE.


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towards the end of the Macedonian Empire conquered all of Greece during the Battle of Khaironeia in 338 BCE.


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along.


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In 337 BC.


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Alexander the Great rose to the king of Macedonia, who conquered Persia, Egypt and all of Front Asia in a short time and continued his conquests all the way to India.


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Subsequently, Greek culture spread widely in these areas as well.


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Thus a Hellenistic world was born, mixing Oriental and Greek culture, with the Greek language prevailing.


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Upon Alexander's death in 323 BC.


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the hellenistic world fragmented into small states.


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The Hellenistic period is generally considered to begin from this year.


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In the Hellenistic period, the political importance of Greek city-states diminished, but Athens, for example, remained a major centre of erudition.


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Roman Age In 168 BC.


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Macedonia suffered a defeat to the Roman Empire.


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All of Greece became a Roman province in 146 BCE.


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after the Romans destroyed Corinth.


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The Roman Civil War of 43—31 BC.


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the decisive Battle of Aktion was fought in Greece in 31 BC.


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The centre of the Roman Greek province, or Achaea, became the centre of the rebuilt Corinth from 46 BCE.


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By the beginning of the period, Rome had taken over most of the entire Greek world.


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The Roman Empire adopted some of the Greek culture into itself, and Greece and Athens became a place of education for the Roman upper class.


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Many emperors, especially Emperor Hadrian, acted as benefactors of Greece and conducted major building programs.


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[1] Christianity arrived in Greece with the missionary voyages of the Apostle Paul 49—54.


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The state religion it became in Greece as well as in the whole kingdom with the proclamation of Emperor Theodosius I in 381.


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[1] Medieval Greece The Byzantine Empire after the Roman Empire broke into two in 395, Greece remained in its Greek-speaking eastern part, which developed into the medieval Byzantine Empire.


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The orthodox form of Christianity (Byzantine Church) became established as the state religion.


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Over time, Greek became the language of the kingdom in the place of Latin, but it considered itself the heir to the Roman Empire and its inhabitants as Romans.


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[8] Byzantium retained in many respects the ancient Greco-Roman tradition united with Christianity.


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The center of the Byzantine Empire was in Constantinople.


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Notable centres in the area of present-day Greece included Thessaloniki and, in the Late Byzantine period, Mystras.


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[1] Otherwise Greece was mainly in the position of a backcountry.


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Athens lost its status as a centre of civilisation and regressed into a minor small town, although flourished to some extent in the Middle Byzantine period.


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[9] Byzantine power in many parts of Greece was always weak, and the country was subject to international migrations by Bulgars, Slavs and other tribes, while the archipelago and other coastal areas were vulnerable to pirate attacks.


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The Byzantine Golden Age was around the years 850—1050.


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The Normans took over parts of Greece in 1081—1149.


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After the Crusaders recaptured Constantinople as a result of the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Greece was divided between the conquerors, chiefly Venetians and Franks.


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Byzantium regained control of Constantinople and Mystras in 1261, after which Byzantine culture rose yet to its final heyday, but otherwise the empire's former greatness was gone.


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[1] From the 14th century onwards, the Turkic Ottoman Empire developed as a new threat.


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The Ottoman invaded much of mainland Greece between 1390 and 1450.


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At the same time, the Republic of Venice recaptured most of western Greece and the Greek archipelago and established fortifications in Greek territory to fight the Ottomans.


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Byzantium was definitively defeated in 1453 after the Turks recaptured Constantinople and then most of the kingdom's other last territories, including Athens 1456 as well as Mystras in 1460 and most of the rest of the Peloponnese in 1503.


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Thus Greece became part of the Ottoman Empire.


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[1] Ottoman and Frankish rule Greece During the Ottoman rule, Greeks were allowed to keep their Orthodox faith, and the Church acted as the custodian of Greekness and the Greek language.


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However, the Greeks were subject to great fiscal strains and others, and the Ottoman exercise of power was sometimes very brutal.


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In the peripheral regions, Ottoman power was weak, and the Greeks often revolted.


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As a result, they were also allowed to suffer bloody reprisals by the Turks.


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Some of the Greeks especially in Asia Minor became Turkized over time.


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Parts of Greece survived under Frankish rule since the Fourth Crusade in 1204.


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Likewise, after the onset of Ottoman rule in the rest of Greece, many territories, notably the Ionian Islands and Crete, survived for a long time under Venetian and Frankish rule.


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In these regions, the time is called the Francocracy (Frankish rule) or the period of Hispanic rule.


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Venice specifically ruled Corfu for several centuries, [10] and was the only part of Greece never under Ottoman rule.


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In Greek parlance, the period of Ottoman rule and Frankish rule is often counted as part of the country's Middle Ages, although in the general time count it is the New Age.


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The Ottoman and Venetians warred for control of Greek territory repeatedly, especially in the 16th century.


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The Venetians defeated the Turks at the Battle of Lepanto near present-day Náfpaktos in 1571 and blocked their attempts to advance further west.


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The Venetians also conquered part of the Peloponnese in 1684, but the Turks reclaimed the territories in 1715.


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[1] [11] In the 18th century, the Greeks gained considerable influence in the Ottoman Empire.


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In Istanbul, they formed an autonomous community under the Patriarchate, comprising about one-third of the city's inhabitants.


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Many of them were wealthy merchants but were also held in high posts. [12].


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However, they were only allowed to live in the Fanari district on the banks of the Golden Horn in the vicinity of the city wall, which is why they are referred to as fanariotes.


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[13] Modern Greece Gaining independence Nationality and the idea of independence began to rise in Greece with the Enlightenment in the 18th and early 19th centuries.


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A few historians have speculated that the Fanariots had little to displace the Ottoman from power throughout the kingdom.


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[14] [15] On the one hand, however, the spread of new nationalist ideas from the west to Greece, on the other hand, Russian power aspirations led to them abandoning such dreams of gaining power and instead beginning to pursue the establishment of an independent Greek state.


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[16] However, the problem was that Greeks and Turks were widely inhabited in the same territories, and therefore a nation-state comprising all the areas inhabited by the Greeks could only have been achieved if the Ottoman Empire had been destroyed [17].


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Few areas, such as the Peloponnese, were purely Greek.


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There was disagreement among the Greek independence movement as to which regions an independent Greece should include.


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[17] In 1814, the freedom movement Filikí Etaireía was founded to prepare a rebellion against the Turks.


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[18] The Greeks finally rose up in 1821 in a revolt in which thousands were killed.


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The start date of the Greek uprising against the Ottoman rule is officially considered 25 March 1821.


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According to tradition, on that day, Bishop Germanos of Patras raised a blue flag with a white cross in the monastery of Agía Lávra, a sign of rebellion.


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[19] [20] It was the beginning of the Greek War of Independence.


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The actual declaration of independence was issued in Néa Epídavros in the New Year 1822.


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The Revolutionary War was bloody and many Greeks gave their lives for freedom.


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Many philhellenes from across Europe also joined the war.


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European states, foremost Great Britain, France and Russia, began to support the Greeks partly with the goal of weakening the Ottoman Empire.


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Among the most notable battles of the Revolutionary War was the Battle of Navarino, in which the Ottoman fleet was beaten.


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The war, which lasted eight years, ended in 1829 with the victory of the Greeks and Europeans and the independence of Greece.


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[21] Greek independence was recognised in London protocol on 3 February 1830. At the time, Britain, France and Russia were recognised.


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Early Greek state The capital of independent Greece was initially in Aígina from 1828 to 1829, then in Náfplio from 1830 to 1834, and from 1834 in Athens.


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Greece was initially a republic (so called: First Greek Republic).


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Ioánnis Kapodístrias became the first president of Greece in 1828, but was assassinated in 1831.


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In 1832, Greece became the Kingdom of Greece.


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The country's first king was Otto, a Bavarian, from 1832.


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Dissatisfaction with the monarch led in 1862 to the ouster of Otto I, and Prince William of Denmark, who assumed the monarch name George I.


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He was in power from 1863—1913.


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[1] [19] The territory of the Greek State was initially considerably smaller than it is today.


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It originally included Central Greece and the Peloponnese, as well as the Argo-Saronic and Cycladic islands.


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In the 19th century, Greece expanded peacefully twice.


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In 1864, Great Britain ceded the Ionian Islands it held to Greece.


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In 1881, Greece gained most of Thessaly, as well as part of Epirus, when the Ottoman Empire ceded the territories by the Treaty of Berlin following its defeat in the Russo-Turkish War.


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However, among the Greeks, or the Great Dream (), of a much wider Greek Empire, which, in addition to present-day Greece, would also have included the Greek regions of the west coast of Asia Minor.


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[22] In 1896, Greece held the first modern Olympic Games.


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Greece sought to annex Crete itself in the 1897 Greco—Turkish War, but lost the war.


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However, Crete declared independence in 1898.


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As Turkey weakened, the young Balkan states saw an opportunity to take over Turkey's European territories, and began the First Balkan War in 1912.


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After the First and Second Balkan Wars of 1913, South Macedonia, the northern Aegean islands, the rest of Thessaly and Epirus, and Crete, which had announced its accession to Greece as early as 1908, were annexed to Greece.


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[23] In the Balkan Wars, Greek territory nearly doubled, but still there was widespread discontent in the country due to the fact that the realisation of the “Great Dream” had been left halfway.


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[24] Even after these territorial expansions, Greeks also lived a lot outside the country, especially in the Smyrna (present-day İzmir) region in Asia Minor.


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King George I was assassinated after the Balkan Wars in 1913, and Konstantin I.


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World War I During World War I, Greece was in an extraordinarily difficult position.


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Prime Minister Elefthérios Venizélos demanded that Greece join in the war against the Central Powers, something the king opposed.


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[25] Venizélos was sacked by Konstantin I after the Battle of Gallipoli, but he set up his own Allied backed national government in Saloniki.


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The Serbian army withdrew from the Balkans to the Greek side already in the early stages of the war.


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The English and French came ashore at Saloniki in 1917 and the Circum-Powers forced Greece to declare war on the Central Powers.


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Constantin I renounced the crown and left the country, and his son Alexander rose to become king.


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[26] In the spring of 1917, the attack by Greek forces was a major loss and the advance was left minimal, but in May 1918 the offensive against Bulgaria was successful.


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On 14 September 1918, English and Greek troops jointly attacked the Bulgarian army.


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The troops advanced up the Axiós River valley and encountered the Bulgarians near Lake Doïrán.


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In the harsh fighting, there was little success in advancing against the strong Bulgarians' defence, but as the battle wound down, the Bulgarians abandoned their positions and fled in disarray.


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In October, English and Greek troops were ordered to advance towards Turkey.


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Greece hoped to take Constantinople, and therefore the knowledge of the armistice agreement signed by Turkey was a major disappointment.


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[27] The inter-world war period in the post-World War II peace treaty of Sèvres in 1920, Greece received extensive territories from Thrace and Asia Minor.


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[28] It was decided to annex Smyrna, or present-day İzmir with its surroundings, to Greece for an initial period of five years, after which a referendum on the fate of the region would have been held.


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[29] However, the Treaty of Sèvres received fierce opposition in Turkey and was in no way accepted by Mustafa Kemal, who came to power there.


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[30] Greece and Turkey were soon at war again.


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Venizélos unexpectedly lost the election in November 1920, and around the same time King Alexander died.


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[31] Shortly after this, King Constantin I was recalled.


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In 1919, war broke out against Turkey, which Turks call the Turkish War of Independence.


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In Asia Minor, Greece made a major offensive towards Ankara, but suffered a bruising defeat in 1922, resulting in Konstantin I having to relinquish power again.


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[32] In the war, both sides committed massacres.


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[33] For Greece, the overwhelming defeat is known as the Asia Minor Catastrophe.


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The Lausanne Peace Treaty of 1923 meant Greece temporarily relinquishing the territories it had gained from Asia Minor.


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On the other hand, Greece received Western Thrace from Bulgaria, and thus its present borders, with the exception of the Dodecanese islands that belonged to Italy at the time, most importantly Rhodes.


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The Lausanne Treaty also required large-scale compulsory population transfers.


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More than a million Greeks were forced to emigrate from Asia Minor to Greece, while some 400,000 Turks were forced to emigrate from Greece to Turkey.


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[34] As a result, a large number of people moved to the territory of present-day Greece at one time, which led to uncontrolled rapid growth of large cities, as well as social unrest.


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Population transfer was done primarily on the basis of religion, not language or culture, and thus a large number of Orthodox but otherwise highly Turkish-speaking Greek populations came to Greece.


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Konstantin I was succeeded in 1922 by George II.


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The long-running struggle between republicans and kingmakers in Greece ended in 1924, when George II was deposed and forced into exile, and Greece was declared a republic (so called: Second Greek Republic).


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Internal agitation within the country, however, forced the restoration of ostensible kingship in 1935, and George II returned to power.


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Real power was held by Prime Minister and General Ioánnis Metaxás, who served as the country's military dictator from 1936 to 1941.


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[33] World War II In the early stages of World War II, Greece declared itself neutral.


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However, in 1940 Italy led by Benito Mussolini gave Greece an ultimatum after accusing the latter of a border infringement on the Albanian border.


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[35] Italy declared war on Greece in October 1940 and began an invasion, which was nevertheless repulsed back deep into the interior of Albania with British support.


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Nazi Germany joined the Balkan War and invaded Greece on 8 April 1941, occupying in a short time the entire country.


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[36] [37] King fled the country after the invasion on 23 April 1941.


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[38] Major battles of World War II in Greece included the Battle of Crete in 1941 and the takeover of the Dodecanese in 1943.


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In the Battle of Crete, the Germans suffered heavy losses, eventually capturing the island in a fierce two-week battle.


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As a result of the occupation, more than 100,000 people starved to death.


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In addition, during the occupation period more than 50,000 Jews were taken from Greece to Auschwitz concentration camp and of the more than 50,000 Jews who lived in Thessaloniki, the vast majority were killed in concentration camps or in the city's sports stadium.


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[39] Throughout the war, communist partisans waged a successful guerrilla war against the Germans.


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The Germans withdrew in October 1944 and British soldiers arrived in the country.


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The Communists rose up in a brief revolt against British forces as well, but an armistice was established between the two sides in 1945.


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The British-backed republican government effectively controlled only Greek cities, with the countryside under Communist control.


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[25] Civil War After the war, Greece were founding members of the United Nations in 1945.


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During the occupation, the communists gathered a powerful force of supporters, and after the war the country drifted into civil war between communists and monarchists.


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In 1946, a pro-kingship government was elected in the country as the left boycotted elections.


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The government invited George II, who had been exiled, to regain power in Greece.


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The communists started a rebellion, with the goal of making Greece a socialist state.


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In keeping with the Truman Doctrine, the United States supported the mon


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The civil war lasted until 1949, when the Communists surrendered.


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[40] The 1947 peace treaty with Italy annexed Greece as the last territorial union under Italian rule the Dodecanese islands.


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[41] King George II died in 1947 and was succeeded to the throne by his brother Paul I. The civil war was followed by decades of political instability as well as political division, with leftists and right-wingers humming each other.


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By 1952, 20 right-wing governments had fallen.


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The first stable government was assembled by Aléxandros Papágos, and he was succeeded as Prime Minister by Konstantínos Karamanlís.


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The country joined the defense alliance NATO in 1952.


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[41] King Paul I died in 1964, and his son Konstantin II came to power.


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Military Junta Period In 1963, the Greek government was formed for the first time by a leftist centrist alliance which, under Prime Minister Geórgios Papandréou, pursued social policies.


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In 1967, however, under Geórgios Papadópoulos, right-wing officers carried out a coup d'état and established a military junta in the country.


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Constantin II attempted to conduct a counter-coup in December of the same year, but it failed.


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The military junta maintained a dictatorship through terror, and arrests and forced displacement were the norm.


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[41] Many emigrated, and Andréas Papandréou, the son of Geórgios Papandréou, among others, led anti-government efforts from Paris.


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On June 1, 1973, the junta declared Greece a republic and the end of the monarchy.


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General Dimítrios Ioannídis carried out a bloodless coup that same year, after which Faídon Gkizíkis was proclaimed president.


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The government supported the failed 1974 Cyprus coup d'état that led to the fall of the military junta.


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Gkizíkis ceded power to Karamanlís, who became prime minister.


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[41] He held a referendum on the basis of which the monarchy was abolished.


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Greece once again became a republic (so called: Greek Third Republic) in 1975.


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Third Republic of Greece After the fall of the Military Junta, Greece returned to parliamentary democracy.


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From the 1970s until the 2010s, power alternated between the Social Democrats PASOK and the Right New Democracy (ND).


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Notable politicians of the post-junta period were notably Konstantínos Karamanlís of ND and Andréas Papandréou of PASOK.


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[1] In 1974, Greece withdrew from NATO command structures in protest against the occupation of Cyprus, but rejoined in 1980.


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In 1981, Greece became a member of the EEC.


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[42] In the same year, Karamanlís's ND party suffered an electoral defeat in the same year, and the social-democratic PASOK gained a majority in the Greek parliament.


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1981—1989 Papandréou of PASOK served as Prime Minister.


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His austerity policies led to unrest, and he eventually resigned over corruption charges.


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The next election ND narrowly won under Konstantínos Mitsotákis, and Karamanlís was elected president.


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[41] Greek trade unions began a general strike in 1992 in protest at the grievances of society, and PASOK won the 1993 elections.


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Papandréou became prime minister again, but resigned in 1996 citing health reasons.


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[41] Konstantínos Simítis took Papandréou's seat, and under his leadership PASOK won the 1996 and 2000 elections.


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In 2001, Greece joined the Eurosystem.


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The ND won the 2004 election and Konstantínos Karamanlís, the first prime minister born since World War II, was elected Prime Minister.


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In the same year, Greece hosted the Athens Summer Olympics, ahead of which the country had large construction programmes undertaken with debt money.


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[43] In late 2009, the Greek economy slipped into a severe debt crisis.


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After early elections in October 2009, Geórgios Papandréou of PASOK became Prime Minister.


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Since 2010, eurozone states and the IMF have provided Greece with new loans in a series of aid packages to deal with its debt crisis.


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In return for the loans, Greece has been forced to agree to broad austerity and economic reforms.


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Papandréou resigned in November 2011 as the country fell into deadlock in its debt crisis and a coalition government led by Loukás Papadímos was formed.


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In 2012, power passed to the government of Antónis Samarás.


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In 2015, elections were won by leftist Syriza, since which time the country has been run by a government led by Aléxis Tsípras.


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Magnesium

Magnesium () is an element with atomic number 12, chemical marker Mg, and CAS number 7439-95-4.


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It is a lightweight, bright silvery-white alkali earth-based metal used for the manufacture of aluminum-magnesium-alloy metals, for example.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

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Occurrence Magnesium is the eighth most common element in the Earth's crust.


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It does not occur in nature as a free element, but only as compounds, which are usually ionic compounds.


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As ions, magnesium is also highly dissolved in seawater, primarily sulfate and chloride.


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Magnesium

Magnesium is also present in several minerals, notably dolomite (mixed carbonate CaCO3·MgCO3) and magnesite (MgCO3).


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[1] Asbestos as well as talc are also compounds of magnesium.


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In the earth's crust, magnesium is 23.3kg/t and 1.35kg/m3 in seawater.


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The most significant areas of occurrence of magnesium are Ukraine, China, North Korea, Russia and Australia.


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Properties Magnesium is soft and the lightest of the metals in common use.


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Magnesium weighs 30 per cent less than aluminium and only a quarter of steel.


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[2] Magnesium is chemically active — it reacts easily with weak acids, even water, but not with hydrofluoric acids or alkalis.


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In air, magnesium is covered with a layer of oxide.


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Magnesium

It has an electronegativity of 1.31 and an initial ionization energy of 736 kJ/mol.


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As compounds, magnesium is present in chlorophyll, important for communicating, and is also important for human vital functions.


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Magnesium

[1] Calcium carbonate (CaCO3, lime) is heated to calcium oxide (CaO, burned lime), which further with water reacts to calcium hydroxide (Ca (OH) 2, slaked lime).


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Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Magnesium hydroxide reacts with hydrogen chloric acid HCl to magnesium chloride MgCl2 and water.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

The water is evaporated and the crystal preceding MgCl2 is heated to approx.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

To 720°C, leaving the crystal water and yielding molten MgCl2.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Further electrolysis: cathode: Mg2+ + 2e− → Mg anode: 2Cl− → Cl2 + 2e− Use As a metal Magnesium is used as a reducer in the preparation of other metals (titanium, zirconium, hafnium, beryllium).


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

In addition, it is an ingredient in many alloys such as duralumin, magnalium and electron.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Magnesium is highly resistant to corrosion in gasoline and many oils, but neither in chloride-containing solutions nor mineral acids.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Also, magnesium alloys have poor corrosion resistance, so they must be protected with a coating.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Alongside other metals, magnesium metals act as anodes.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

By alloying magnesium with other metals, it improves its strength properties.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Highly magnesium-rich alloys combine strength and lightness and are therefore important, for example, in the aircraft industry as well as in many instruments.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Magnesium has been used in structures requiring lightness and strength, especially after the 1950s in high-speed military aircraft and missiles.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

By alloying silicon carbide with magnesium, studies have produced an alloy called metal nanocomposite, which has greatly improved strength, rigidity, plasticity and heat resistance.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

[3] In the early days of photography, magnesium was used as a flash light, as when burned quickly it produces a momentarily high light output.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

For the same reason, it is also used in fireworks.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

As compounds, among the compounds of Magnesium, the most important are sulfates, oxides and carbonates.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Dolomite, formed from crystal-preceding magnesium and calcium carbonates, is used to some extent, at least in agriculture, as a soil improver.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Crystal-preceding magnesium sulfate, magnesium oxide aqueous sludge and magnesium hydroxide are used as medicinal substances.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Many fertilizers contain magnesium, as it is an important plant food.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

The lack of magnesium can be seen as a decrease in color in the intervals between the leaf veins of the plant.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

In veterinary practice, magnesium plays a big role.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Its lack causes cattle and horses to suffer grazing paralysis.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

Magnesium in human nutrition Magnesium is a mineral essential for humans and animals: Good for the functioning of the heart.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

In particular, heart patients taking diuretics should eat minerals containing magnesium, among other things.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

May lower cholesterol levels.


Question: How many chemical compounds has man invented?

Magnesium

In degenerative diseases such as hearing loss and tinnitus, magnesium supplementation may be beneficial.