Greece
From Turtledove
Greece is a country in southeastern Europe located on the Adriatic Sea.
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[edit] Greece in In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Greece fell to the Italy during World War II, and became part of the Italian Empire.
[edit] Greece in Worldwar
Greece was conquered by Germany in 1941 (having previously defeated an Italian invasion at the outset of World War II) and absorbed into the Greater German Reich. Many Greek refugees fled to Britain, which had sent troops to defend their country.
Under the terms of the Peace of Cairo, Greece was recognized as German territory.
[edit] Greece in The Two Georges
In the early 19th Century, a national movement started among Greeks living under Turkey Ottoman rule, and their desire for freedom gained the sympathy of romantic Philhellenes such as the poet Byron. That, however, was outweighed by the British Empire's raison d'etat. Britain had gained a major coup by making the Ottoman Empire into its protectorate, and that included guaranteeing Ottoman territorial integrity against both rival powers and internal rebellion. The best which Philhellenes could achieve for the Greeks was the stationing of a British resident to oversee the Ottoman governor of Greece, which remained an Ottoman province into the 21st Century.
One crucial result of the British stabilization of the Ottoman Empire was a resurgence in the fortunes of the Istanbul-based Greek Phanariote community. The Phanariotes had come to a pre-eminent position in Ottoman affairs during the 18th Century, but the rebelliousness of the fellow Greeks made them increasingly suspect to the Ottoman authorities in the 1810's and 1820's.
The British found the Phanariotes an energetic, useful and dependable element of Ottoman society. Within a few decades of the start of British tutelage at Istanbul, the Phanariotes not only regained their pre-eminent position in Ottoman life but also extended their operations to the wider British Empire in general, some rich families extending their trading tentacles to British India in one direction and to the North American Union in the other. Members of Phanariote families were often bilingual in Greek and English (as well as fluent in Turkish, Arabic and various other tongues) and while keeping their center at the Phanar Quarter of Istanbul, it became customary for Phanariote families to have one son located at London itself, to take care of family interests at the Imperial center.
[edit] Greece in "Counting Potsherds"
Greece fell to Persia in 480 BC when Athens was decisively defeated.
[edit] Greece in "The Daimon"
Greece was a group of autonomous city-states. After Alkibiades successfully conquered Syracuse, Sparta, and his own Athens, Hellenic Greece was sufficiently unified to launch a war with its eternal enemy, Persia.
[edit] Greece in "Les Mortes d'Arthur"
By the late twenty-second Century, Greece had merged with other Western European countries to form United Europe. As such, it had its autonomy reduced to something comparable to that of a state in the United States. Nevertheless, it continued to compete separately at the Olympics to keep its place of honor as the homeland of the Olympic ideal. It was able to send four athletes to Mimas, a moon of Saturn, for the sixty-sixth Winter Olympic Games. The athletes' space suits were painted in the national colors of blue and white.
[edit] Greece in "The Horse of Bronze"
The ancestral home of the centaurs was overrun by the Lapiths who believed they were entitled to take from all lesser beings simply because of their innate superiority.
