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Author Keridis, Dimitris.

Title Historical dictionary of modern Greece / Dimitris Keridis
Published Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xlviii, 253 pages) : illustrations, maps
Series Historical dictionaries of Europe ; no. 71
Historical dictionaries of Europe ; no. 71.
Contents Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Maps; Chronology; Introduction; The Dictionary; Appendix A: Kings of Greece 1833-1973; Appendix B: Presidents of Greece 1828-2008; Appendix C: Prime Ministers of Modern Greece1833-2008; Appendix D: National Election Results in Greece(1946-2007); Appendix E: Basic Data on Greece; Appendix F: Economic Statistical Charts; Bibliography; About the Author
Summary Located on the southern-most tip of the Balkan peninsula in Europe's southeast, Greece is a small country of some 11 million people. And while few people have a longer history than the Greeks, Modern Greece is a fairly young country, having been founded in 1830. Greece has come a long way since then; it has been a client state, first of Britain and then of the United States, for much of its modern existence but now it has secured an equal place at the top tables of NATO and the EU. The Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece explores the modern history of this country through a chronology, an
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Subject HISTORY.
Politics and government
SUBJECT Greece -- History -- 1821- -- Dictionaries
Greece -- Politics and government -- 1821- -- Dictionaries
Subject Greece
Genre/Form dictionaries.
Dictionaries
History
Dictionaries.
Dictionnaires.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780810863125
081086312X
081085998X
9780810859982
1282519905
9781282519909
9786612519901
6612519908