The country's mainland can be divided into three sections:
northern Greece, centeral Greece, and the Peloponnesus.
Northern Greece is made
up of ( running east to west ) the
regions of Thrace, Macedonia, and Epirus. Thrace and
Macedonia
are mountainous in the north, but are gifted with broad
flat
plains. Plains ( flatlands) are unusual in Greece, and
they are
highly prized as farmland. Epirus, which lies in the
northwest,
has no signtificant plains.
Centeral Greece includes the
region called Thessaly and the large
island of Euboea, which hugs the east coast. Thessaly
boasts three
large plains where wheat is grown and stock pastured.
In the southeast, the
mainland ends in a board peninsula
know as Attica, cut off from central Greece by mountains,
and
jutting out into the Aegean Sea. At the southern limit
of the Attica
plain, a few miles from the sea, stands Athens the most
important
city of Greece.