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S: (n) Athens, Athinai, capital of Greece, Greek capital (the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)) "in the 5th century BC ancient Athens was the world's most powerful and civilized city"
S: (n) Athens, Athinai, capital of Greece, Greek capital (the capital and largest city of Greece; named after Athena (its patron goddess)) "in the 5th century BC ancient Athens was the world's most powerful and civilized city"
S: (n) Greece, Hellenic Republic, Ellas (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)
S: (n) Navarino, battle of Navarino (a decisive naval battle in the War of Greek Independence (1827); the Turkish and Egyptian fleet was defeated by an allied fleet of British and French and Russian warships)
S: (n) Thermopylae, battle of Thermopylae (a famous battle in 480 BC; a Greek army under Leonidas was annihilated by the Persians who were trying to conquer Greece)
S: (n) Balkan Wars (two wars (1912-1913) that were fought over the last of the European territories of the Ottoman Empire and that left the area around Constantinople (now Istanbul) as the only Ottoman territory in Europe)
S: (n) Trojan Horse, Wooden Horse (a large hollow wooden figure of a horse (filled with Greek soldiers) left by the Greeks outside Troy during the Trojan War)
S: (n) loanblend, loan-blend, hybrid (a word that is composed of parts from different languages (e.g., `monolingual' has a Greek prefix and a Latin root))
S: (n) dithyramb ((ancient Greece) a passionate hymn (usually in honor of Dionysus))
S: (n) Revolutionary Organization 17 November, 17 November (a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Greece that is violently opposed to imperialism and capitalism and NATO and the United States; an active terrorist group during the 1980s)
S: (n) Revolutionary People's Struggle, ELA (an extreme leftist terrorist group formed in Greece in 1971 to oppose the military junta that ruled Greece from 1967 to 1974; a revolutionary group opposed to capitalism and imperialism and the United States)
S: (n) Midas ((Greek legend) the greedy king of Phrygia who Dionysus gave the power to turn everything he touched into gold)
S: (n) Sisyphus ((Greek legend) a king in ancient Greece who offended Zeus and whose punishment was to roll a huge boulder to the top of a steep hill; each time the boulder neared the top it rolled back down and Sisyphus was forced to start again)