GREECE - 1964 June 10: An 2,50 drachma multicolored postage stamp depicting Lady, fresco by Panselinos, Protaton Church, Mt. Athos. Byzantine Art Exhibition, Athens. Byzantine art comprises the body of Christian Greek artistic products of the Eastern Roman Empire, as well as the nations and states that inherited culturally from the empire. Though the empire itself emerged from the decline of Rome and lasted until the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, the start date of the Byzantine period is rather clearer in art history than in political history, if still imprecise

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Greece is located in the southern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe, bordering on the Ionian, Aegean and Mediterranean Seas. Capital — Athens. In 1923 the reigning king was forced to abdicate and the following year Greece was declared a republic. In 1935, the king was recalled by a “plebiscite” of the people. Greece became a republic in June 1973. The country today includes the Aegean Islands of Chios, Mytilene (Lesbos), Samos, Icaria (Nicaria) and Lemnos, the Ionian Islands (Corfu, etc.) Crete, Macedonia, Western Thrace and part of Eastern Thrace, the Mount Athos District, Epirus and the Dodecanese Islands. 100 Lepta = 1 Drachma. 100 Cents = 1 Euro (2002). This postage stamp, as a physical objects, is part of a private collection owned by the author of the image

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Size: 3500px × 4800px
Location: Greece
Photo credit: © World of Stamp / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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