Culture
 
Greece is a country of a great interests and diverse cultures, influenced by its location, at the junction between the East and the West and by the many occupations endured by the Greek people throughout history.
 
Greeks in Greece and the Greek Islands are particularly proud of their culture, country and speak of it with an intense passion, feeling that their culture is a definition of their national and ethnic belonging.
Traditions, religion, music, language, food and wines are the major composites of the Greece culture and constitute the base for those who wish to visit the beautiful country of Greece.
 
Greek Traditions and Customs
 
Customs and traditions in Greece and the Greek Islands are either of a religious character or coming from paganism. Furthermore, most of the traditions and festivals still celebrated today are religious. The Greeks are very superstitious people and believe a lot in religion but also in supernatural or paranormal phenomenon. Traditions and superstitions vary from island to island, from villages to villages and from region to region. Here are some of the many Greek traditions still honored by all of the Greeks, no matter their age, until today.
Name day celebration
Engagement
Marriage
Baptism
Carnival
Clean Monday (Kathari Deutera)
Easter
Greek Independence Day
28th October: The NO
Greek Religion
 
The Greek population is composed of a 97% of Christian Orthodox. The rest of the population is Muslim, Roman Catholic and Jewish. Greece (and the Greek Islands) and Russia are the only countries to have such a great proportion of people that belong to the Orthodox Church. The Orthodox Church forms the third largest branch of Christianity after the Roman Catholics and the Protestants.
Greek Music
Greece music is of unbelievable diversity due to the creative Greek assimilation of different influences of the Eastern and Western cultures of Asia and Europe.
Music and Greece (and the Greek Islands) have a long history dating from the Antiquity, during which poetry, dancing and music were inseparable and played an important part in the ancient Greek’s everyday life; The Greek tragedy of the first century AD and after used music as one of its component elements. Then, with the fall of Ancient Greece and the hegemony of the Roman Empire, Greek music slept for nearly two thousands years; the Byzantine Empire as well as the four hundred years of slavery under Ottoman domination restricted the development of Hellenism and its spiritual and artistic evolution.
The Greek music got reborn only in the 19th century with the opera compositions of Nikolaos Mantzaros (1795-1872), Spyridion Xyndas (1812-1896) and Spyros Samaras (1861-1917). From that moment on, Greece produced many talented artists from great composers to fabulous interprets; music became an expression and a testimony of the slavery years, a weapon of opposition against the colonel authority and a way to express love, death, human fears, that accompanied Greeks’ everyday life.
 
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece