where is the nation of greece located?
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 = = = Political situation in Greece and Europe = = = 

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 As of early 2008 , the official position of Greece , adopted unanimously by the four largest political parties , has made a more moderate shift towards accepting a " composite name solution " ( i.e. the use of the name " Macedonia " plus some qualifier ) , so as to disambiguate the former Yugoslav Republic from the Greek region of Macedonia and the wider geographic region of the same name . 

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 The traditional Greek homelands have been the Greek peninsula and the Aegean Sea , Southern Italy ( Magna Graecia ) , the Black Sea , the Ionian coasts of Asia Minor and the islands of Cyprus and Sicily . In Plato 's Phaidon , Socrates remarks , " we ( Greeks ) live around a sea like frogs around a pond " when describing to his friends the Greek cities of the Aegean . This image is attested by the map of the Old Greek Diaspora , which corresponded to the Greek world until the creation of the Greek state in 1832 . The sea and trade were natural outlets for Greeks since the Greek peninsula is rocky and does not offer good prospects for agriculture . 

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 The name " Macedonia " is used in a number of competing or overlapping meanings to describe geographical , political and historical areas , languages and peoples in a part of south @-@ eastern Europe . It has been a major source of political controversy since the early 20th century . The situation is complicated because different ethnic groups use different terminology for the same entity , or the same terminology for different entities , with different political connotations . 

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 The history of the Greek people is closely associated with the history of Greece , Cyprus , Constantinople , Asia Minor and the Black Sea . During the Ottoman rule of Greece , a number of Greek enclaves around the Mediterranean were cut off from the core , notably in Southern Italy , the Caucasus , Syria and Egypt . By the early 20th century , over half of the overall Greek @-@ speaking population was settled in Asia Minor ( now Turkey ) , while later that century a huge wave of migration to the United States , Australia , Canada and elsewhere created the modern Greek diaspora . 
