30 EARLY-TWENTIETH CENTURY PHOTOS OF GREECE DEPICT A WHOLE DIFFERENT WORLD

Life in the countryside, the poverty of the rural population, the daily routine of the working classes and the yet unbuilt city of Athens (as a matter of fact, Athens was chosen as the capital of the newly independent Greek state only in 1834) dominate in these photos that illustrate Greece`s condition only a century ago, in the early 10`s.
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