INTERNATIONAL: GREEK SERIES: Part 1 - Introduction

The Greek language belongs to the Hellenic branch of the Indo-European language family, and is spoken by about 13 million people mainly in Greece and Cyprus, where it is an official language.
There are 14,000,000 to 17,000,000 Greeks in the word in 32 countries.
Greek is also recognized as a minority language in parts of Italy (Grikos section in southern Italy including Apulia aka Puglia and Calabria) and in Albania, Armenia, Romania and Ukraine.
The Greek culture and cuisine has had a large impact on cuisines all over the world. A few examples below.
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Agutte - a traditional Griko cake made during Easter
from the Greek Easter Bread Tsoureki
Greek wedding candies or ????????? ???? or karaméles gámo
or Italian wedding candies or caramelle di nozze
In Albania focaccia and pitta (pita, piti) breads are popular in the region with Greek and Arabic flatbread influences.
Gjethet e mbushur rrushit (Albanian stuffed grape leaves)
similar to Greek dolmas (stuffed grape leaves).
Similarly, special pastries and dessert breads take on a Greek flavor with many being fried and dipped in honey like bakllava in Albania.
Called baklava in Greece.
In Armenia they serve phyllo dough pastries called byorek (??????) or borek (?????), consists of dough, or phyllo dough, folded into triangles and stuffed with cheese,...
Fuente de la noticia:
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