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Kingdom of Greece
Βασίλειον τῆς Ἑλλάδος
Vasíleio tis Elládos
Timeline: Victory to the Rising Sun
OTL equivalent: Greece
Kingdom of Greece Flag Royal Coat of Arms of Greece
Flag Coat of arms
Motto: 
Ἐλευθερία ἢ Θάνατος
"Freedom or Death"
Greece (green)
CapitalAthens
Official languages Greek
Demonym Greek
Government Unitary parliamentary constitutional monarchy
 -  King Paul II
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 -  Parliament Speaker {{{leader_name3}}}
Legislature Hellenic Parliament

Greece, officially the Kingdom of Greece (Greek: Βασίλειον τῆς Ἑλλάδος, romanized: Vasíleio tis Elládos) is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Sea of Crete and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin, featuring thousands of islands. The country comprises nine traditional geographic regions, and has a population of nearly 10.4 million. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki and Patras.

Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilization, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, theatre, and the Olympic Games. From the eighth century BC, the Greeks were organised into various independent city-states known as poleis (singular polis) that spanned the Mediterranean and Black seas. Philip II of Macedon united most of present-day Greece in the fourth century BC, with his son Alexander the Great rapidly conquering much of the known ancient world from the eastern Mediterranean to northwestern India. The subsequent Hellenistic period saw the height of Greek culture and influence in antiquity. Greece was annexed by Rome in the second century BC, becoming an integral part of the Roman Empire and its continuation, the Byzantine Empire, which was predominately Greek in culture and language. The Greek Orthodox Church, which emerged in the first century AD, helped shape modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox world. After the Fourth Crusade in 1204, Latin possessions were established in parts of the Greek peninsula, but most of the area fell under Ottoman rule by the mid-15th century.

Following a protracted war of independence, which started in 1821, Greece emerged as a modern nation state in 1830 and two years later it became present-day constitutional monarchy. Over the first hundred years, the nation sought territorial expansion, mainly realized in the early 20th century during the Balkan Wars and up until its Asia Minor Campaign ended with catastrophic defeat in 1922. The short-lived republic that was established in 1924 was beset by the ramifications of civil strife and the challenge of resettling refugees from Turkey. In 1936 a royalist dictatorship inaugurated a long period of authoritarian rule, marked by military occupation and civil war, which resulted in the loss of the mainland to Communist forces, who established the Hellenic Democratic Republic, and the flight of the Greek government and royal family to Crete in 1950.

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