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The civilization that invented democracy, then spent millennia letting it slip.
means A southeastern European country of thousands of islands, ancient ruins, and outsized influence on Western thought.
from From Latin Graecia, named after Graikoi, an early tribe Romans met first; the Greeks themselves prefer Hellas, their own name for the land.
CoastlineAmong the world's longest, with thousands of islands.
OlympicsBorn here in 776 BCE, naked and competitive.
Word debtMassive chunks of English vocabulary owe Greek.
No point zeroGreece never reaches more than 137km from sea.