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| Ática |
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Ática is a peninsula in the Aegean Sea. The mountains divide the peninsula in the plain of Foot, Mesogeia, and Thriasia. In the north, it limits with Beocia and the west with Corinto. The island of Eubea is to the north. |
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| Central Greece |
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She is separated of the continent by the gulf of Eubea, that is divided in the gulf of the north (Vórios Evvoïkós Kólpos) and the one of the south (Nótios Evvoïkós Kólpos) by the Straits of Euripos, near the capital. One thinks that one separated of continental Greece after an earthquake. It is a very mountainous region. The tip upper of the island is Dhirfis (Delphi), with an altitude of 1745 meters. |
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| Macedonian Central |
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In slopes and the low part it is the old Turkish city, that was destroyed in 1917, was reconstructed and conserves monuments like churches bizantinas as well as the arc of Galerio, which they are visited assiduously by the tourists. |
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| Creta |
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It has great resistances, fertile mountains, great plains, forests of palms or pines, crystalline beaches of golden sand and waters and all it due to its particular climate. Its special geographic situation and its continuous crossing of cultures to determined significantly its history. |
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| Macedonian Oriental and Tracia |
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she is one of the 13 regions of Greece, and occupies the Eastern part of the Macedonian, to the north of the country and occupies the western part of Greek Thrace. The capital of the region is the city of Komotini. |
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| Epiro |
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The mountainous system called Pindo separates this region of Tesalia. It was, and it continues being an agricultural region in which one mainly cultivates wheat and other cereals, vegetables, fruits, olive trees and tobacco. |
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| Islands Jónicas |
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The total extension of the archipelago is of 2,307 km ². The greater altitude of all the insular set at issue is the Aínos Golds (1,628 ms) located in the southern zone of the Cefalonia island. The main urban center of the Jónicas Islands is the city of Corfú. |
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