background information on greece?

Question

can anyone give me any backround information eg. when they first became a country?
thankyou.
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Answer 1

Greece was in antiquity a national unity, but it comprised many cities-states (Athens, Sparta, Corinth) and some Greek kingdoms (Epirus, Macedonia, Thrace). It also comprised the areas of Asia Minor and Southern Italy, which were colionised by Greeks.
After the end of Alexander's Empire, all of Greece was occupied by the Roman Empire. Then, after the Roman Empire split, Greece was mostly the part thaat formed the eastern Roman Empire, known as Byzantine Empire, that got a Greek orientation, since it was made of Greek people and in Greek ground obviously.
In 1453, the Byzantines lost to the Ottoman Turks and Greece was occupied by the Ottoman Empire, until the Greek war of Independence, in 1821. The war ended in 1829, so soon afterwards Greece became an independent state in the way we consider states today. Of course, it did not comprise all of the areas that were Greek from antiquity and had Greek population. Asia Minor remained Turkish, Thessaly was liberated in 1890, Macedonia was liberated in 1912, Crete also, the Dodecanese in 1945, Northern Epirus is still part of Albania, Cyprus was English until it became independent but then there were the incidents that led to the present occupation of half of the island by the Turks, etc.

Answer 2

Are you kidding me?

Answer 3

in 1832 with Capitol tin sparti !! that's why othon tear down and fixed nice roads and squares!!