Greek geography in the context of "Kefalonia"

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⭐ Core Definition: Greek geography

Greece is a country in Southeastern Europe, on the Balkan Peninsula. It is bordered to the north by Albania, North Macedonia and Bulgaria; to the east by Turkey, and is surrounded to the east by the Aegean Sea, to the south by the Cretan and the Libyan seas, and to the west by the Ionian Sea which separates Greece from Italy.

The country consists of an extremely rough, mountainous, peninsular mainland jutting out into the Mediterranean Sea at the southernmost tip of the Balkans, and two smaller peninsulas projecting from it:the Chalkidiki and the Peloponnese, which is joined to the mainland by the Isthmus of Corinth. Greece also has many islands, of various sizes, the largest being Crete, Euboea, Lesvos, Rhodes, Chios, Kefalonia, and Corfu; groups of smaller islands include the Dodecanese and the Cyclades. According to the CIA World Factbook, Greece has 13,676 kilometres (8,498 mi) of coastline, the largest in the Mediterranean Basin.

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Greek geography in the context of Ancient world map

The earliest known world maps date to classical antiquity, the oldest examples of the 6th to 5th centuries BCE still based on the flat Earth paradigm. World maps assuming a spherical Earth first appear in the Hellenistic period. The developments of Greek geography during this time, notably by Eratosthenes and Posidonius culminated in the Roman era, with Ptolemy's world map (2nd century CE), which would remain authoritative throughout the Middle Ages. Since Ptolemy, knowledge of the approximate size of the Earth allowed cartographers to estimate the extent of their geographical knowledge, and to indicate parts of the planet known to exist but not yet explored as terra incognita.

With the Age of Discovery, during the 15th to 18th centuries, world maps became increasingly accurate; exploration of Antarctica, Australia, and the interior of Africa by western mapmakers was left to the 19th and early 20th century.

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LINKED FROM (PARENTS)
← Ancient world map ← Eratosthenes' Map of the World ← Early world maps
LINKS TO (CHILDREN)
Greece → Southeastern Europe → Balkans → Albania → North Macedonia → Bulgaria → Turkey → Aegean Sea → Cretan Sea → Libyan Sea → Ionian Sea → Italy → Mediterranean Sea → Chalkidiki → Peloponnese → Isthmus of Corinth → Corinth → List of islands of Greece → Crete → Euboea → Lesvos → Rhodes → Chios → Kefalonia → Corfu → Dodecanese → Cyclades → CIA World Factbook → Coast →