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Boeotia

(Encyclopedia)Boeotia bēōˈshə [key], region of ancient Greece. It lay N of Attica, Megaris, and the Gulf of Corinth. The early inhabitants were from Thessaly. A number of small cities scattered over the rough c...

Sakellaropoulou, Katerina

(Encyclopedia)Sakellaropoulou, Katerina, 1956–, Greek government official, president of Greece (2020–). A lawyer, she was appointed to the Council of State, Greece's top administrative court, in 1982, where she...

Hellas

(Encyclopedia)Hellas: see Greece.

Aeolians

(Encyclopedia)Aeolians: see Greece.

Olynthus

(Encyclopedia)Olynthus ōlĭnˈthəs [key], ancient city of Greece, on the peninsula of Chalcidice (now Khalkidhikí), NE of Potidaea. A league of Chalcidic cities grew up in the late 5th cent. b.c., and Olynthus, ...

Lacedaemon

(Encyclopedia)Lacedaemon, Greece: see Laconia. ...

Laurium

(Encyclopedia)Laurium, Greece: see Lávrion.

Monemvasía

(Encyclopedia)Monemvasía, Greece: see Malvasia. ...

Morea

(Encyclopedia)Morea, Greece: see Peloponnesus. ...

Melos

(Encyclopedia)Melos, Greece: see Mílos.