ABSTRACT
Greece is slightly larger than the state of Alabama, and it is bordered by Albania, Bulgaria, Turkey, and Macedonia. The region of present-day Greece was occupied in the Paleolithic period, and Indo-European invasions began about 2000 B.C. Ancient Greece was never unified, but the city-states of Athens and Sparta dominated while other cities shifted alliances over the centuries. In 1889, the Greek Army Geographical Service was formed, and classical triangulation commenced immediately. The agency name was later changed to the Hellenic Military Geographical Service. Hatt was the Hydrographer of the French Navy, and later taught at a university in Paris. Apparently, he made quite an impression on a Greek student because the Hatt projection, used by the French Navy for local grids of hydrographic surveys, became the national Grid system of Greece in the twentieth century. The “Revised Military Grid” used in some national applications after Second World War was based on the Lambert Conformal Conic projection.
