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This article has the Transcontinental countries category, but is only listed (and considered) as a country in Europe. Shouldn't it be removed? Deiadameian (talk) 14:54, 14 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]
On reconsideration, I'm going to remove the statement, along with a piece of unfortunate WP:OR that was recently added to it and would have had to be reverted in any case [1]. But also in its previous form, the sentence about "is considered a transcontinental country" is both unsourced and most likely wrong. Who "considers" it as such? I looked again through the literature and could find nothing, nothing at all, in any reliable source listing Greece among "transcontinental countries". The thing is, being "transcontinental" is really not a meaningful and consistently defined concept at all. It's not something there is any coherent body of literature about. The term is merely used here and there in an ad-hoc fashion, by authors who need to justify the lumping in of either Russia or Turkey with their European or Asian neighbors for purposes of some geographical clustering or other. But it's not a category geographers bother writing about and developing criteria for in its own right. Whenever authors do provide a list of countries they consider "transcontinental", every author's list is different – the only thing they all agree on is to include Turkey and Russia, and then possibly one or two more. The whole idea of "categorizing" countries by whether they are transcontinental or not seems to be little more than a self-created piece of idle speculation on the part of Wikipedians and authors of low-quality trivia websites. Fut.Perf. ☼ 09:44, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Tpbradbury has recently trimmed the article as it was too long. I have reverted some parts of his edits in the article's "History" section for reasons that are explained in the summary of each of my edits and trimmed other parts trying to explain in my edits's summaries why it is preferable to delete or shorten these other sentences or phrases instead of others. Regards, Ashmedai 119 (talk) 17:18, 17 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]
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Remove intricate details and reduce the word count from 14,000 to a more readable 10,000 at maximum. 64.189.18.34 (talk) 06:06, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Examples of this can be seen in Crete and the fall of Thessaloniki. Greece was one of the key players in persecuting ottoman Muslims and its page should not be exempt from at least outlining how when and where it did so. 92.40.196.175 (talk) 17:01, 29 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]
The part in the infobox talking about religion is largely outdated with more recen studies depicting a different attitude towards religion.
This study says that 18.9% of the population doesnt believe in religion.
While in this study "The U.S. government estimates the total population at 10.5 million (midyear 2022). According to research polls, 81 to 90 percent of the population identifies as Greek Orthodox, 4 to 15 percent as atheist, and 2 percent as Muslim."
https://www.state.gov/reports/2022-report-on-international-religious-freedom/greece/ Takis S1 (talk) 14:48, 25 June 2024 (UTC)[reply]