Country Profiles: Greece

Greece (formally called the Hellenic Republic -- Elliniki Dhimokratia

Government-Sponsored Resources and Diplomatic Information

• Statistics on Greece: CIA World Factbook
• US Embassy in Athens
• Embassy of Greece in Washington, D.C.
• The Hellenic Government in English (Greek Version)

• The Ministry of Foreign Affairs with information on Greece in English

International Organizations and Development Programs

• U.N. Mission of Greece Country page contains U.N. related info. as well as other links about the country
• Greece and the IMF The IMF's Greece Country Page with links to articles

Internet Resources: General

• Greece - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
• History of Greece: Primary Documents BYU site to historical documents
• WESS Web: Western European Specialists Section hosted by the University of Virginia library
• Travel Information Travel to Greece with the Lonely Planet

Internet Resources: Culture, Literature and Language

• Hellenic Ministry of Culture Historical and cultural information and internet resources
• Bulfinch's Mythology The best guide online to Greek and Roman mythology. Searchable!
• MIT's Classics Archive Read the classics online from MIT (or download them)
• Greek Classics A guide to internet resources for the study of Greek classics created by the Library of Congress
•  Byzantium: Byzantine studies on the Internet
  The Glory of Byzantium | Publications for Educators | Explore & Learn  The Metropolitan Museum of Art's on-line exploration of Byzantium.
• The Perseus Project at Tufts University
• Greek Language and Linguistics Gateway

Greek Language Study

• Greek Online Dictionaries
• Greek-English-Greek An online dictionary
• The UCLA Language Materials Project learning resources for less commonly taught languages of the world
• Language Resource Page A page of links to information on distance learning and technology resources, traditional language study programs (including those that offer instruction in less commonly taught languages) and other general language study resources.

Online News Sites and Servers

• Athens News Only daily English-language Greek newspaper
• TA NEA Online version of Greek daily newspaper (in Greek)
• Antenna 1 Radio news in Greek with Real Audio
• Web Radio International hear broadcasts from countries all over the world

Academic and Fellowship Information

• Modern Greek Studies Association Fellowship and academic information about modern Greek studies
• University of Athens Site of the University of Athens. Information in English
• University of Crete Site of the University of Crete (English-language version). Online digital library
• Fulbright Fellowships for dissertation and postdoctoral research
• Andrew W. Mellon Fellowships in Humanistic Studies Information on fellowships for Ph.D. students in humanities and social sciences
• SSRC/ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships: support for dissertation research in humanities and social sciences in all areas and regions of the world
• Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships For dissertation research in humanities and social sciences
• UC Berkeley Center for German and European Studies Fellowships for dissertation research, predissertation research travel, and UC faculty research
• Columbia University's Council for European Studies has information about fellowships for Western and Central Europe
• Library Servers via WWW Libraries from over 90 countries, updated daily. Sponsored by UC Berkeley library and Sun Microsystems

Greece, formally called the Hellenic Republic, is a country in the southeast of Europe on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula. It has land boundaries with Bulgaria, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Albania to the north; and with Turkey to the east. The waters of the Aegean Sea border on Greece to the east, and those of the Ionian and Mediterranean Seas to the west and south.