Greece Country Overview Greece, also known as the “Hellenic Republic”, is located in south-eastern Europe and is a country bordering the Mediterranean Sea. The time zone map of the world divides countries into world time zones. The time difference between the respective country and the official world time (also called UTC) determines which time zone…
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Greece Geopolitics
The geographical location of Greece has made the country a natural hinge between Western Europe and the Near East, making it vulnerable to conflict and severe periods of crisis. Throughout the Cold War period, Greece was the southwestern embankment of the Atlantic bloc in the containment policy of Soviet expansionism. During the 1990s, however, it…