List of caves in Greece

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This article show a list of caves in Greece.

Deepest caves in Greece

The deepest caves in Greece in order of depth are:

Other caves in Greece

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<span class="mw-page-title-main">Crete</span> Largest Greek island

Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, the 88th largest island in the world and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete rests about 160 km (99 mi) south of the Greek mainland, and about 100 km (62 mi) southwest of Anatolia. Crete has an area of 8,450 km2 (3,260 sq mi) and a coastline of 1,046 km (650 mi). It bounds the southern border of the Aegean Sea, with the Sea of Crete to the north and the Libyan Sea to the south. Crete covers 260 km from west to east but is narrow from north to south, spanning three longitudes but only half a latitude.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lasithi</span> Regional unit in Crete, Greece

Lasithi is the easternmost regional unit on the island of Crete, to the east of Heraklion. Its capital is Agios Nikolaos, the other major towns being Ierapetra and Sitia. The mountains include the Dikti in the west and the Thrypti in the east. The Sea of Crete lies to the north and the Libyan Sea to the south.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sporades</span> Regional unit in Thessaly Central Greece, Greece

The (Northern) Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. They consist of 24 islands, four of which are permanently inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos and Skyros. They may also be referred to as the Thessalian Sporades.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2004 Summer Olympics torch relay</span>

The 2004 Summer Olympics Torch Relay took the Olympic Flame across every habitable continent, returning to Athens, Greece. Every city which had hosted, will host, or coincidentally elected to host the Summer Olympics until the 2028 Summer Olympics was visited or revisited by the torch, as well as several other cities chosen for their international importance. The main reason why the torch relay went around the world was to highlight the fact that the Olympic Games were started in Greece and in modern times have been held around the world and then took place in Greece in 2004.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Provinces of Greece</span> Former sub-divisions of Greeces prefectures

The provinces of Greece were sub-divisions of some the country's prefectures. From 1887, the provinces were abolished as actual administrative units, but were retained for some state services, especially financial and educational services, as well as for electoral purposes. Before the Second World War, there were 139 provinces, and after the war, with the addition of the Dodecanese Islands, their number grew to 147. According to the Article 7 of the Code of Prefectural Self-Government, the provinces constituted a "particular administrative district" within the wider "administrative district" of the prefectures. The provinces were finally abolished after the 2006 local elections, in line with Law 2539/1997, as part of the wide-ranging administrative reform known as the "Kapodistrias Project", and replaced by enlarged municipalities (demoi).

Greek vehicle registration plates are composed of three letters and four digits per plate printed in black on a white background. The letters represent the district (prefecture) that issues the plates while the numbers range from 1000 to 9999. As of 2004 a blue strip was added on the left showing the country code of Greece (GR) in white text and the Flag of Europe in yellow. Similar plates but of square size with numbers ranging from 1 to 999 are issued for motorcycles which exceed 50 cc in engine size.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Sea of Crete</span> Aegean Sea southern portion

The Sea of Crete, or Cretan Sea, is a sea, part of the Aegean Sea, located in its southern extremity, with a total surface area of 45,000 km2 (17,000 sq mi). The sea stretches to the north of the island of Crete, east of the islands of Kythera and Antikythera, south of the Cyclades, and west of the Dodecanese islands of Rhodes, Karpathos and Kassos. The bounding sea to the west is the Ionian Sea. To the northwest is the Myrtoan Sea, a subdivision of the Mediterranean Sea that lies between the Cyclades and Peloponnese. To the east-southeast is the rest of the Mediterranean Sea, sometimes credited as the Levantine Sea. Across the island of Crete, to the opposite shore of it begins the Libyan Sea. Ferry routes to and from Piraeus and Heraklion, as well as the southern islands of the Aegean and the Dodecanese, run in this area.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Greek wine</span> Wine making in Greece

Greece is one of the oldest wine-producing regions in the world and among the first wine-producing territories in Europe. The earliest evidence of Greek wine has been dated to 6,500 years ago where wine was produced on a household or communal basis. In ancient times, as trade in wine became extensive, it was transported from end to end of the Mediterranean; Greek wine had especially high prestige in Italy under the Roman Empire. In the medieval period, wines exported from Crete, Monemvasia and other Greek ports fetched high prices in northern Europe.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Catholic Church in Greece</span>

The Catholic Church in Greece is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope in Rome. Indigenous Roman Catholic Greeks numbered about 50,000-70,000 in 2022 and were a religious and not an ethnic minority. Most of them are a remnant of Venetian and Genoese rule in southern Greece and many Greek islands from the early 13th until the late 18th century, Greeks who converted to Catholicism or descendants of the thousands of Bavarians that came to Greece in the 1830s as soldiers and civil administrators, accompanying King Otto. One very old but still common term to reference to them is Φράγκοι, or "Franks", dating to the times of the Byzantine Empire, when medieval Greeks would use that term to describe all Catholics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Local football championships of Greece</span>

Local football championships of Greece are lowest leagues of the Greek Football. The participants are only amateur clubs from various Greek cities or villages. Every Football Association has its own league and at the end the winner of each Association Championship plays knock-out matches against other Associations winners. The current football associations in Greece are:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Index of Greece-related articles</span>

This page list topics related to Greece.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Hellenic Seaways</span> Greek ferry operator

Hellenic Seaways is a Greece-based ferry company founded in 2005. Hellenic Seaways is subsidiary of Attica Group along with Superfast Ferries, Blue Star Ferries, and Africa Morocco Link, which operates 35 vessels providing modern, high-quality transportation services in Greece and abroad. Attica's vessels serve 60 unique destinations in 4 countries, connecting 71 ports transporting over 7 million passengers, 1 million passenger vehicles, and 400,000 trucks every year.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fortress Crete</span> Term for garrison and fortification of Crete in World War II

Fortress Crete was the term used during World War II by the German occupation forces to refer to the garrison and fortification of Crete.

Blue Star Maritime S.A., operating under the brand name Blue Star Ferries, is a Greece-based company founded in 1965 which provides ferry services between the Greek mainland and the Aegean Islands.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">ERA Sport</span> Sports radio stadio of ERT

The ERA Sport is the sports radio station of ERT.

Andreas Polentas was a Greek partisan executed by the Germans during the Axis occupation of Greece in World War II.

The 2021–22 Greek Football Cup was the 80th edition of the Greek Football Cup. The winner of the Cup qualified for the next season's Europa Conference League third qualifying round.

In Greece, ephor is a title given to the head of an archaeological ephorate, or archaeological unit. Ephors are responsible to the Ministry of Culture and Sports.

References

  1. Kolendrianou, Maria; Ligkovanlis, Stefanos; Maniakas, Ioannis; Tzortzi, Marianthi; Iliopoulos, George (May 1, 2020). "The Palaeolithic cave of Kalamakia (Mani Peninsula), Greece: new insights on the palaeoenvironment using microvertebrates and mesowear analysis of ruminant teeth". Heliyon. 6 (5): e03958. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2020.e03958 via ScienceDirect.