Greece

(grès,) a kingdom of S.E. Europe, dating its modern autonomy from 1832, previous to which it had been for some centuries politically included within the limits of the Turkish empire. G., as at present constituted, forms but a portion of the country known as the Greece of the ancients - that cla ic land which holds the most conspicuous place in the pages of early his. tory-but still it is inclusive of the greatest names belonging to its glorious past, as those of Athens and [s. 422]