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nouna republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil
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nounancient Greece; a country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCEtype of:
Definition that contains greece
- greek a native or inhabitant of Greece
- greek of or relating to or characteristic of Greece or the Greeks or the Greek language
- alexander king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC)
- greece ancient Greece; a country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCE
- classical of or relating to the study of the literary works of ancient Greece and Rome
- euro the basic monetary unit of most members of the European Union (introduced in 1999); in 2002 twelve European nations (Germany, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Austria, Finland) adopted the euro as their basic unit of money and abandoned their traditional currencies
- olympic of the region of Olympia in Greece or its inhabitants
- doris a small region of ancient Greece where the Doric dialect was spoken
- athens the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)
- dorian the ancient Greek inhabitants of Doris who entered Greece from the north about 1100 BC