Greece, formally the Hellenic Republic, is a nation situated in Southern and Southeast Europe. Athens is the country's capital and biggest city, trailed by Thessaloniki. Greece is situated at the intersection of Europe, Asia, and Africa. Arranged on the southern tip of the Balkan Peninsula, it shares land outskirts with Albania toward the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria toward the north, and Turkey toward the upper east. The Aegean Sea misleads the east of the terrain, the Ionian Sea toward the west, the Cretan Sea and the Mediterranean Sea toward the south. Greece has the longest coastline on the Mediterranean Basin and the eleventh longest coastline on the planet at 13,676 km (8,498 mi) long, highlighting countless, of which 227 are possessed. 80% of Greece is uneven, with Mount Olympus being the most noteworthy top at 2,918 meters (9,573 ft). The nation comprises of nine geographic locales: Macedonia, Central Greece, the Peloponnese, Thessaly, Epirus, the Aegean Islands (counting the Dodecanese and Cyclades), Thrace, Crete, and the Ionian Islands. Greece is viewed as the support of Western civilisation, being the origin of popular government, Western rationality, Western writing, historiography, political theory, major logical and numerical standards, Western dramatization and remarkably the Olympic Games. From the eighth century BC, the Greeks were sorted out into different free city-states, known as poleis (particular polis), which spread over the whole Mediterranean locale and the Black Sea. Philip of Macedon joined a large portion of the Greek territory in the fourth century BC, with his child Alexander the Great quickly overcoming a significant part of the antiquated world, from the eastern Mediterranean to India. Greece was attached by Rome in the second century BC, turning into an indispensable piece of the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire, wherein Greek language and culture were prevailing. Established in the primary century A.D., the Greek Orthodox Church helped shape present day Greek character and transmitted Greek customs to the more extensive Orthodox World. Falling under Ottoman domain in the mid-fifteenth century, the advanced country province of Greece developed in 1830 after a war of autonomy. The sovereign territory of Greece is a unitary parliamentary republic and created nation.

Athens is the capital and biggest city of Greece. Athens overwhelms the Attica area and is one of the world's most established urban communities, with its written history crossing more than 3,400 years and its soonest human nearness beginning somewhere close to the eleventh and seventh thousand years BC. Traditional Athens was an amazing city-express that rose related to the seagoing advancement of the port of Piraeus, which had been an unmistakable city before its fifth century BC fuse with Athens. A middle for human expressions, learning and theory, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is broadly alluded to as the support of Western progress and the origination of majority rules system, to a great extent due to its social and political effect on the European landmass, and specifically the Romans. In present day times, Athens is an expansive cosmopolitan city and vital to monetary, budgetary, mechanical, sea, political and social life in Greece. Athens is a worldwide city and one of the greatest financial focuses in southeastern Europe. It has a vast money related part, and its port Piraeus is both the biggest traveler port in Europe, and the second biggest on the planet.

Acanthus mollis, generally known as bear's breeches, ocean dock or shellfish plant, is a herbaceous perpetual plant with an underground rhizome in the variety Acanthus. Acanthus mollis comes to by and large 30– 80 cm (12– 31 in) of tallness, with a limit of 180 cm (71 in). It has basal bunches of profoundly lobed and cut, sparkly dim green leaves, delicate to the touch, up to 40 cm (16 in) long and 25 cm (9.8 in) wide, with a long petiole. The inflorescence is a round and hollow spike 30– 40 cm (12– 16 in) long and can deliver up to 120 blooms. The blooms are rounded, whitish, and lilac or rose in shading. Each bloom is up to 5 cm (2.0 in) long and it is encompassed by three green or purplish bracts. The focal bract is sharp and bigger than the other two. The calyx has two lips: the upper is purple on top, rather long and shapes a sort of "protective cap" over the corolla. The corolla is decreased to a white lower lip, trilobed, with purple-pink venation. The four stamens are combined to the corolla and look like small brushes. This species blooms in pre-summer or late-spring. The state of the Acanthus leaf of this plant motivated the old Greek stone worker Callimachus (fifth c. BCE) to display the capital (crown) of the Corinthian section. From that point forward, the Corinthian request segment has been utilized broadly in Greco-Roman engineering.

The short-beaked common dolphin (Delphinus delphis) is a types of normal dolphin. It has a bigger range than the since quite a while ago hooked regular dolphin (D. capensis), happening all through warm-calm and tropical seas, including the Indian Ocean despite the fact that in littler amounts than different spots they are found. There are more short-curved normal dolphins than some other dolphin species in the warm-calm parts of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. It is likewise found in the Caribbean and Mediterranean Seas. The short-angled regular dolphin is additionally plentiful operating at a profit Sea, Gulf of Mexico, and Red Sea. They pursue the inlet stream up to Norwegian waters. Rarely do any short-curved dolphin adventure close to the Arctic. The short-angled normal dolphin is a medium-sized dolphin, littler than the more generally known bottlenose dolphin. Grown-ups differ long from five to eight feet and range in mass from 100 to 136 kilograms or 220.26 to 299 pounds. Guys are commonly more and heavier, with a sexual size dimorphism of 1.06. Develop guys additionally have conspicuous postanal bumps. The shading design on the body is surprising. The back is dull and the paunch is white, while on each side is an hourglass design hued light dim, yellow or gold in front and filthy dim toward the rear. It has a long, flimsy platform with 50– 60 little, sharp, interlocking teeth on each side of each jaw. Adolescent dolphins have an increasingly quieted appearance and become progressively recognizable when they develop.