{"id":14385,"date":"2023-08-26T03:13:11","date_gmt":"2023-08-25T21:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=14385"},"modified":"2025-10-13T13:09:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T07:39:47","slug":"grand-cross-of-the-order-of-honour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/grand-cross-of-the-order-of-honour\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Cross of the Order of Honour"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Grand Cross of the Order of Honour:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>second-highest civilian honour in Greece.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is c<strong>onferred to &#8220;eminent personalities<\/strong> <strong>who by reason of their distinguished position, have contributed to enhancing the stature of Greece&#8221;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Order of Honour was e<strong>stablished in 1975.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The <strong>head of the goddess Athena is depicted on the front side<\/strong> <strong>of the Star<\/strong> with the <strong>inscription \u201cONLY THE RIGHTEOUS SHOULD BE HONOURED\u201d.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Key Facts about Greece:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Location<\/strong>: It is located in <strong>southeastern Europe<\/strong>, on the so<strong>uthern tip of the Balkan Peninsula.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Official Name: Hellenic Republic<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Bordering Countries:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The country is bordered by <strong>Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and North Macedonia.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Greece shares <strong>maritime borders with Cyprus, Egypt, Italy, and Libya.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Geography<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>mainland has rugged mountains, forests, and lakes<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>The country is <strong>well known for the thousands of islands<\/strong> dotting the blue Aegean Sea to the east, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and the Ionian Sea to the west.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>largest Greek island is Crete<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capital: Athens<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>History<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>Greece is often r<strong>eferred to as the &#8220;cradle of Western civilization&#8221;<\/strong> because of its contributions to philosophy, democracy, and literature.<\/li>\n<li>It was the <strong>home of famous ancient philosophers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>During <strong>ancient times, the country was divided into city-states, <\/strong>which were<strong> ruled by noblemen. <\/strong>The largest were <strong>Athens, Sparta, Thebes, and Corinth.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Independence<\/strong>: Greece<strong> gained its independence from the Ottoman Empire i<\/strong>n the <strong>early 19th century,<\/strong> following a war of independence that began in 1821.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Political System:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>parliamentary republic<\/strong> with a <strong>head of government &#8211; <\/strong>the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/prime-minister\/\" target=\"_blank\"><u>Prime Minister<\/u><\/a> &#8211; who h<strong>as the most political power<\/strong>, and the head of state &#8211; the president &#8211; whose duties are largely ceremonial.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>executive power is exercised by the government.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Languages<\/strong>: <strong>Spoken languages are Greek (official)<\/strong> <strong>and Turkish<\/strong> (predominantly spoken by a minority of Turks in Western Thrace).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Olympics<\/strong>:\n<ul>\n<li>The Olympic Games <strong>have their origins in ancient Greece,<\/strong> where the f<strong>irst Olympic Games were held in Olympia in 776 BC<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Greece also <strong>hosted the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is a parliamentary republic?<\/h3>\n<p>A parliamentary republic is a republic that operates under a parliamentary system of government where the executive branch (the government) derives its legitimacy from and is accountable to the legislature (the parliament). There are a number of variations of parliamentary republics. Most have a clear differentiation between the head of government and the head of state, with the head of government holding real power and the head of state being a ceremonial position, similar to constitutional monarchies.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hindustantimes.com\/india-news\/greece-confers-pm-modi-with-grand-cross-of-the-order-of-honour-101692954868282.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Greece confers PM Modi with Grand Cross of the Order of Honour\u00a0 \u00a0<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Cross of the Order of Honour is the second-highest civilian honour in Greece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":14386,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}