This is country of opened people and stone aged history. Outsiders can thing that they do not have sense of patriotism, but this is embodied in religion and language and strong sense of history. Although they are happy to play along with the romantic notion that they are descendants of Ancient Greece, their true antecedent is Byzantium, which they have kept alive in institutions and customs throughout centuries of foreign dominations. Constantinople not Athens is the real spiritual home. New attitude and necessity have given them an international outlook. Their worldwide shipping industry, trading communities in every continent are bear witnesses to an immensely enterprising and adoptable people.…
