Neighboring Countries Who Get Along

Turkey and Greece have been good neighbours at all time :)

I would say Greece and Egypt.

Egypt is counted as a neighbour of Greece because both countries share sea borders. Historically both had friendly contacts with each other. Egyptian is the first ethnonym ever mentioned in Greek language. The Greeks traded with the Egyptians and exchanged knowledge. Greeks had their own city in Egypt. One of the major cities of Greece was named after an Egyptian one. One of the largest Greek communities was in Egypt and it is the longest surviving. Until the first half of the 20th century Egypt had the largest Greek community. There have been Egyptians living in Greece since day 0. There's a big number of Greco-Egyptians in both countries, so big that one wouldn't even imagine. The Byzantines supported the large population of Konstantinoupolis (in it's wealthy days) with the help of Egyptian imports. Old Greek heroes/tribal leaders make triumphic return from Egypt.

There are so many things to mention...The only negative event in the last 4000 years in the Nasser regime, but nobody really takes that personal.

Originally posted by Flipper Historically speaking, we count count Greece - Armenia - Cyprus. Both Greeks and Greek Cypriots have been neighbouring with Armenians (even sharing villages). According to Strabo the Thessalian Greeks were kinsmen of the Armenians in their distant past, since Armenus, the founder of Armenia was from Armenion in Thessaly. Also...Greeks & Georgians. Historically speaking Georgians were sharing with Anatolian Greeks the same Kindom (Pontus). Cypriots can be paired with Lebanese and Syrians. All of them have noticeable communities in each others countries.

Edited by evilbu - 30-May-2009 at 17:37