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Europe is one of the five inhabited traditional continents of the Earth. Physically and geologically, Europe is the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, west of Asia. Europe is bounded to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the west by the Atlantic Ocean, to the south by the Mediterranean Sea, and to the southeast by the waterways adjoining the Mediterranean to and including the Black Sea and the Caucasus Mountains. On the east, Europe is divided from Asia by the water divide of the Ural Mountains and by the Caspian Sea. Europe is the world's second-smallest continent in terms of area and third-largest continent after Asia and Africa in population.
 
Agkistro is a community in the Serres Prefecture, Greece. It had a population of 410 residents in 2001. Serres prefecture is a prefecture located in east northeastern Greek Macedonia. Its total population reaches just over 200,000 inhabitants. The capital is Serres. Its mountains are Orvelos to the north, Menoikio to the east, Pangaio to the southeat, Kerdylio to the southwest, Vertiskos to the west, parts of Krousi to the west and portions of the Kerkini lies to the northwest. The bounding prefectures and one district of another state are Thessaloniki to the southwest, Kilkis to the west, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia with the district of Strumica to the northwest, Bulgaria to the north, Drama to the northeast and the Kavala to the east.

The Strymonian Gulf lies to the south along with the Strymonas delta. Lake Cercinities was a lake located in the southern portion which is now drained. The prefecture covers 3 percent of all of Greece. 41 percent of the prefecture is arable and most of the lands are near the Strymonas River which flows from Bulgaria and empties into the Strymonic Gulf. Another river is the Angitis in the eastern portion of the prefecture, with the caves near Alistrati.

Greece is a country in south-eastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula. It saw the emergence of the first advanced civilizations in Europe whose impact is inseparable from today's western institutions.

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