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Time constrained visitors in the know choose English fluent & non-smoking Paul. His low prices, top condition a/c Mercedes vehicle(s) & knowledge of Greece solve all your transport needs from transfers to tours. 2006 a/c Mercedes Bus available for groups, Limo too!
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Cruising to Rhodes? Harry highly recommends George for private tours lg. or sm.!
The Major Classical Sights
Olympia, Delphi, Mycenea and many More - Guided Luxury A/C'd coach tours
Free hotel pickup.
Half day to 7 day tours
The Major Classical
& Byzantine Sights
Olympia, Delphi, Mycenea and many More - Guided Luxury A/C'd coach tours
Free hotel pickup.
Half day to 7 - 11 day tours
Selected for quality, location, price.
Hotels for every budget!
Lux to Economy !
Where do you want to wake up tomorrow morning?
Lux to Economy !
Eco Greece Guide
11 National Parks
Selected for quality, location, price.
Hotels for every budget!
Lux to Economy !
Selected for quality, location, price.
Hotels for every budget!
Lux to Economy !
Vetted for quality, location, price.
Hotels for every budget!
Lux to Economy !
On Cruise Ships
Large & Small
The Major Classical Sights
Olympia, Delphi, Mycenea and many More - Guided Luxury A/C'd coach tours
Free hotel pickup.
Half day to 7 - 11 day tours
Our Feedback . . .
We are home from Greece and would like to thank you for your assistance with our travel arrangements there.
Everything went smoothly and we LOVE your country.
Thanks for your suggestions and help making our vacation truly memorable.
I will definitely recommend you to my friends here in the US.
–Liz Barnes
Our Feedback . . .
Dear All: You did a great job of selecting hotels and making our arrangements for this trip.
The hotels were all in great locations.
Overall we had a wonderful vacation in Greece
– Lloyd & Bobbie Ferguson USA
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Thanks so much to Harry's Greece Travel Guide for helping to make this such a great trip! - Bob and Deb Simeone USA
Thank YOU!. . .
Dear All: You did a great job of selecting hotels and making our arrangements for this trip.
The hotels were all in great locations.
Overall we had a wonderful vacation in Greece
– Lloyd & Bobbie Ferguson USA
Selected for quality, location, price.
Hotels for every budget!
Lux to Economy !
Greece Culture: Music and Dance
Mikra Asia (Asia Minor) and its Greek refugees
After World War I and the collapse of the Ottoman empire, the failed Greek attempt to reclaim Greek territories in
Anatolia for Greece, resulted in what is commonly known in Greece as the 'katastrofi' (catastrophe), and the signing of
the Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 by Eleftherios Venizelos, Kemal Attaturk, and representatives of Britain and France.
According to the terms of this treaty, a large 'exchange of populations' was carried out between Turkey and Greece,
whereby Orthodox Christians were forced to leave the new nation of Turkey for Greece, and Muslims in Greece forced to leave
Greece for Turkey, with a few agreed upon exceptions. Muslims in Greek Thrace, on the islands of Kos and Rhodes were
permitted to remain, in exchange for Greeks given permission to remain in Constantinople/Istanbul.
An estimated 130.000 refugees flooded into Greece along with another 150,000 from Bulgaria, Romania, Russia and Serbia,
with chaotic results. Lack of shelter, food, disease, and trauma were among the extreme hardships they faced, along with
hostility from the local Greeks, to whom these newcomers were seen not only as foreigners (despite the fact that they were
Orthodox Christians), who spoke either strange Greek dialects, or (worse yet), Turkish or Slavic languages. Despite this
horrors of this massive crisis, many refugees managed to remain together, with many located in new villages (including on
the outskirts of the much smaller Athens of that time) with members of their own regions. Some surmise that perhaps the
uprooting of these people presented an even greater cause for them to hold onto their culture and its traditions, which are
often threatened (or lost) during such a situation.
