About 12 million people around the
world speak Greek. They live mostly
in Greece, Cyprus, Italy, Albania,
Turkey, the United States, among
other countries.
Currently, Greek men must serve from one
year to 18 months in any branch of the
armed forces. The government spends 6%
of the annual Gross Domestic Product
(GDP) on the military.
Continuously inhabited for over 7,000 years, Athens is one of the oldest cities in Europe. It is also
the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, the Olympic Games, political science, Western
literature, historiography, major mathematical principles, and Western theories of tragedy and
comedy.
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