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Greece

Greece was the first area in Europe where advanced early civilizations emerged, beginning with the Cycladic civilization of the Aegean Sea, the Minoan civilization in Crete and then the Mycenaean civilization on the mainland. Later, city-states emerged across the Greek peninsula and spread to the shores of the Black Sea, South Italy and Asia Minor, reaching great levels of prosperity that resulted in an unprecedented cultural boom, that of classical Greece, expressed in architecture, drama, science and philosophy, and nurtured in Athens under a democratic environment.

Athens and Sparta led the way in repelling the Persian Empire in a series of battles. Both were later overshadowed by Thebes and eventually Macedonia, with the latter under the guidance of Alexander the Great uniting and leading the Greek world to victory over the Persians.

The Hellenistic period was brought only partially to a close two centuries later with the establishment of Roman rule over Greek lands in 146 BC. Many Greeks migrated to Alexandria, Antioch, Seleucia and the many other new Hellenistic cities in Asia and Africa founded in Alexander's wake.

Lithakia

Lithakia was ruled by the Venetians until the Napolenic Wars when it was controlled and ruled by the French until the British invasion near the end, the Russians and the Ottoman Turks also ruled during the wars, though the Septinsular Republic was autonomous. Keri and the rest of the Ionian Islands formed a part of the United States of the Ionian Islands until 1864 which marked the end of the non-Greek rule, it finally ceded to Greece.

After World War II and the Greek Civil War, it was partially rebuilt, almost every building in the villages were completely destroyed in the 1953 Ionian Earthquake, afterwards, the village were rebuilt by the late-1950s and 1960 to rebuilt everything and at the time connected with asphalt. More pavement was accessed in the late 20th century. Electricity, radio and automobiles were introduced in the mid-20th century, television in the late-20th century and computer and internet at the turn of the millennium. Its population are growing and grew more in a ten year period between 1991 and 2001.