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1.
Greece's flag is only blue and white
2.
The ruins of Troy are located in modern-day Greece
They are in Turkey
3.
Almost all the islands in the Aegean Sea belong to Greece
4.
The Nazis occupied Greece during WWII
5.
Jacqueline Kennedy married a Greek shipping magnate named Aristotle Onassis
6.
North Macedonia added the word "North" to its name to resolve a dispute with Greece
7.
Socrates died in battle
He died by drinking Hemlock after being sentenced to death
8.
Lambda is a Greek letter
9.
Greece uses the Drachma as its currency
Greece has used the Euro since 2002
10.
Sparta is one of the 10 largest cities in Greece
Only 17,000 people live there
11.
Documents written in Classical Greek didn't use spaces between words
12.
Ouzo is type of filo pastry filled with spinach
It is an anise-flavored spirit
13.
Athens was the capital of the Byzantine Empire
The capital of the Byzantine Empire was Constantinople
14.
Contra (against), Mille (thousand) and Leo (lion) are all ancient Greek words
They are Latin
15.
About 50% of Greeks are Catholic
Less than 3% are Catholic. About 90% of Greeks belong to the Greek Orthodox faith.
By 1943, Italy capitulated to the Allies and the Nazis took over their territory executing many Italians and sending the rest to labor camps.
The Nazi occupation was ruthless, over 10% of the population died due to starvation and from the Nazi atrocities, committed against civilians "as retribution" due to the fact that Greek resistance was one of the fiercest, kicking a lot of Nazi ass throughout "the Occupation" as it is called until nowadays.