Greece, like China, is a country of four thousand years of undisrupted habitation

Greece, like China, is a country of four thousand years of undisrupted habitation of the same historic people, with continuity in culture and history, and millennia of survival and development of its language. The legacy of the ancient Macedonians is not attested only in the Greek language of the modern inhabitants of Makedonia, in Northern Greece. It is also attested in the vast cultural relics spread throughout Μακεδονία/Macedonia: Homeric Macedonian "Toumbes"-tombs, ancient Greek theaters, Hellenic epigraphy and, of course, Temples to ancient Greek Gods and Goddesses, like the aforementioned Naos-temple of Aphrodite in downtown Thessaloniki.