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With a total length of about 2,320 km (1,440 mi) as of 2020, Greece's motorway network is the most extensive in Southeastern Europe and one of the most advanced in Europe, [271] including the east–west A2 (Egnatia Odos) in northern Greece, the north–south A1 (Athens–Thessaloniki–Evzonoi, AThE) along the mainland's eastern coastline and ...
However, in mainland Greece and the Greek islands, various Latin and Venetian possessions continued to exist. From 1261 onwards, Byzantium underwent a gradual weakening of its internal structures and the reduction of its territories from Ottoman invasions, culminating in the fall of Constantinople on May 29, 1453. The Ottoman conquest of ...
Neolithic Europe, Mycenaean Greece Greece: 5000 BC [186] The city has been continuously inhabited mostly as an urban settlement for 7,000 years. Recorded history begins in mid 2nd millennium BC. Athens: Mycenaean Greece Greece: 5th–4th millennia BC [187] [188] [189]
A historical sovereign state is a state that once existed, but has since been dissolved due to conflict, war, rebellion, annexation, or uprising. This page lists sovereign states, countries, nations, or empires that ceased to exist as political entities sometime after 1453, grouped geographically and by constitutional nature.
Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in Ancient Greece, [9] marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars ...
After the USSR ceased to exist, the Russian Federation became an independent state and was recognized by the international community as the successor state of the USSR. Spain: 6 December 1978: Spanish Constitution: 1479: Dinastical unification of the Crown of Castile and the Crown of Aragon by the Catholic Monarchs.
The dominant customary international law standard of statehood is the declarative theory of statehood, which was codified by the Montevideo Convention of 1933. The Convention defines the state as a person of international law if it "possess[es] the following qualifications: (a) a permanent population; (b) a defined territory; (c) government; and (d) a capacity to enter into relations with the ...
After 1833, Mani was integrated into the Kingdom of Greece. United States of the Ionian Islands (1815–1864): amical protectorate of the United Kingdom. Regional administrations during the Greek War of Independence (March 1821 – c. 1825): Messenian Senate (1821) Peloponnesian Senate (1821-1823) Senate of Western Continental Greece (1821-1823)