Athens
In Ancient Greek, Athens' name was plural. In earlier Greek, such as Homeric Greek, the name was in the singular form Athina.The oldest known human presence in Athens is the Cave of Schist, which has ...
Ionian Islands
The seven islands are; from north to south:
Kerkyra usually known as Corfu in English and Corfù in Italian Paxi also known as Paxos in English &...
Cyclade Islands
The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic, flat idols carved out of the islands' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze A...
North Greece
The term "Northern Greece" is widely used to refer mainly to the two northern regions of Macedonia and Thrace; thus the Thessaloniki-based Ministry for Macedonia and Thrace was known as "Ministry for ...
North Aegean Islands
Within this group, the main islands in the northeastern Aegean Sea and along the Turkish coast are the Greek islands of Samos, Ikaria, Chios, Lesbos, Lemnos, Agios Efstratios, Psara, Fournoi Korseon, ...
Peloponnese
The Peloponnese is a peninsula and geographic region in southern Greece.
It is separated from the central part of the country by the Gulf of Corinth.
During the late Middle Ages and the Ottoman er...
Dodecanese
The most historically important and well-known is Rhodes, which, for millennia, has been the island from which the region is controlled. Of the others, Kos and Patmos are historically more important; ...
Evia
Evia οr Euboea is the second-largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. The narrow Euripus Strait separates it from Boeotia in mainland Greece. In general outline it is a long a...
Central Greece
The Central Greece region was established in the 1987 administrative reform.
With the 2010 Kallikratis plan, its powers and authority were redefined and extended. Along with Thessaly, it is supervis...
Crete
Crete is the largest and most populous of the Greek islands, and the fifth-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, Sardinia, Cyprus, and Corsica. Crete and a number of surrounding islan...
Sporades
"Sporades" means "those scattered" (compare with "sporadic"), and was used from Classical Antiquity to refer to the Aegean island groups outside the central archipelago of the Cyclades. In modern geog...