The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied throughout the ages and as a result, the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes.
The ancient theatre of Dodona
The Temple of Hephaestus in Athens
Bust of Herodotus in Stoa of Attalus, one of the earliest nameable historians whose work survives.
Leonidas at Thermopylae by Jacques-Louis David.
Macedonia is a geographic and former administrative region of Greece, in the southern Balkans. Macedonia is the largest and second-most-populous geographic region in Greece, with a population of 2.36 million. It is highly mountainous, with major urban centres such as Thessaloniki and Kavala being concentrated on its southern coastline. Together with Thrace, along with Thessaly and Epirus occasionally, it is part of Northern Greece. Greek Macedonia encompasses entirely the southern part of the wider region of Macedonia, making up 51% of the total area of that region. Additionally, it widely constitutes Greece's borders with three countries: Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia to the north, and Bulgaria to the northeast.
The expansion of the ancient Macedonian Kingdom up to the death of Phillip II
The Lion of Amphipolis; erected in 4th BC in honour of Laomedon of Mytilene, general of Alexander the Great
View of the Roman-era Arch of Galerius in Thessaloniki, capital of Roman Macedonia
View of the Byzantine fortress in the old town of Kavala.