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Greece's largest metropolitan centers and most influential urban areas are those of Athens and Thessaloniki, with metropolitan populations of approximately four million and 990 thousand inhabitants respectively. The third-largest-city is Patras, with a metropolitan area of approximately
Culture by city in Greece (8 C) ... Greek folk culture (3 C) Food and drink in Greece (3 C) G. ... Pages in category "Culture of Greece"
The Museum of Greek Folk Art is a museum in Athens, Greece. The museum was founded in 1918 as the Museum of Greek Handicrafts in the Tzistarakis Mosque in Monastiraki , which later became the National Museum of Decorative Arts and in 1959 it obtained its current name.
Restored North Entrance with charging bull fresco of the Palace of Knossos (), with some Minoan colourful columns. The first great ancient Greek civilization were the Minoans, a Bronze Age Aegean civilization on Crete and other Aegean Islands, that flourished from c. 3000 BC to c. 1450 BC and, after a late period of decline, finally ended around 1100 BC during the early Greek Dark Ages.
Pythia, the oracle, resided in the temple, receiving pilgrims from all Greece. In the 6th century BCE, Delphi was seen as the religious centre and symbol of unity of the ancient Greek world. [6] Acropolis, Athens: Attica: 1987 404; i, ii, iii, iv, vi (cultural) The Acropolis of Athens stands on a steep hill above the
Festivals in Greece by city (3 C) ... Culture in Athens (14 C, 14 P) P. Culture in Patras (3 C, 5 P) Culture in Piraeus (4 C) T. Culture in Thessaloniki (8 C, 3 P) X.
Places of concern to Greek culture, religion or tradition, including: Greek mythology; Greek Jews, including Romaniotes and exiled Sephardim; Greco-Buddhism; Christianity until the Great Schism, and afterwards the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Rite, etc. Greek Muslims, and those outside Greece who are Greek-speaking or ethnic Greek
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