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Greece vs Thermopylae - What's the difference?

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As proper nouns the difference between greece and thermopylae

is that greece is country in southeastern Europe having borders with Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Member state of the European Union since 1981. Official name: Hellenic Republic ({{term|Ελληνική Δημοκρατία|lang=el}}) while Thermopylae is a narrow pass on the East-central coast of Greece adjacent to the Maliakos Gulf, northwest of Athens. Its name is derived from its hot sulphur springs. It was the site of the Battle of Thermopylae, at which the Spartan King Leonidas stood off, for a time, the Persian armies of Xerxes.

As a noun greece

is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals (a step.

greece

English

(wikipedia Greece)

Proper noun

(en proper noun)
  • Country in southeastern Europe having borders with Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Bulgaria, and Turkey. Member state of the European Union since 1981. Official name: Hellenic Republic ().

    • See also

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    thermopylae

    English

    (wikipedia Thermopylae)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • A narrow pass on the East-central coast of Greece adjacent to the Maliakos Gulf, northwest of Athens. Its name is derived from its hot sulphur springs. It was the site of the Battle of Thermopylae, at which the Spartan King Leonidas stood off, for a time, the Persian armies of Xerxes.

    • References

    * Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)[http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aid%3Dthermopylae] * Fictional Portayals[http://300themovie.warnerbros.com/]