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  2. Elgin Marbles - Wikipedia

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    75 m (246 ft) Location. British Museum, London. The Elgin Marbles ( / ˈɛlɡɪn /) [ 1] are a collection of Ancient Greek sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, removed from Ottoman Greece and shipped to Britain by agents of Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, and now held in the British Museum in London.

  3. Hellenic Duty Free Shops - Wikipedia

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    Website. www.dutyfreeshops.gr. Hellenic Duty Free Shops SA, founded in 1979, is a Greek company in the travel retail industry. The company holds the exclusive right to the retail sale of duty-free goods in Greece . It has a network in Greece, composed of 97 shops at 45 points (22 airports, 11 border checkpoints, and 12 ports).

  4. Greek cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Mastic, an aromatic, ivory-coloured plant resin, is grown on the Aegean island of Chios . Greek cuisine uses some flavorings more often than other Mediterranean cuisines do, namely oregano, mint, garlic, onion, dill, cumin, and bay laurel leaves. Other common herbs and spices include basil, thyme and fennel seed.

  5. List of Ancient Greek temples - Wikipedia

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    The Temple of Olympian Zeus, Athens, (174 BC–132 AD), with the Parthenon (447–432 BC) in the background. This list of ancient Greek temples covers temples built by the Hellenic people from the 6th century BC until the 2nd century AD on mainland Greece and in Hellenic towns in the Aegean Islands, Asia Minor, Sicily and Italy ("Magna Graecia"), wherever there were Greek colonies, and the ...

  6. White Tower of Thessaloniki - Wikipedia

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    The White Tower of Thessaloniki(Greek: Λευκός ΠύργοςLefkós Pýrgos; Turkish: Beyaz Kule; Ladino: Kuli Blanka) is a monument and museum on the waterfront of the city of Thessaloniki, capital of the region of Macedoniain northern Greece. The present tower replaced an old Byzantinefortification, known to have been mentioned around the ...

  7. Archaic Greek Sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Archaic Greek Sculpture represents the first stages of the formation of a sculptural tradition that became one of the most significant in the entire history of Western Art. The Archaic period of Ancient Greece is poorly delimited, and there is great controversy among scholars on the subject. It is generally considered to begin between 700 and ...

  8. From Souvenirs to Souvenirs - Wikipedia

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    In 1977 "From Souvenirs to Souvenirs" was covered by the band Krasniye Maki [ ru]. Their version was called "First Love" and became immensely popular. It was played at discos everywhere and became one of popular songs to sing with a guitar. In 1995 "First Love" was covered by the band Russkiy Razmer. The new version was much heavier.

  9. List of World Heritage Sites in Greece - Wikipedia

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    The next two sites listed were the Archeological site of Delphi and the Acropolis of Athens, in the following year. Five sites were added in 1988, two in 1989 and 1990 each, one in 1992, one in 1996, two in 1999, and one in 2007. The most recent site added was the Zagori Cultural Landscape, in 2023. There are no transnational sites in Greece.

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