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Today most Greeks in the country are political refugees who fled Greece due to the Greek Civil War [3] and their descendants. [4] Ethnologue also cites Greek as an "immigrant language" in the Republic of North Macedonia. [5] In 2002, 422 individuals declared themselves as Greeks in the census. [6] The 2021 census recorded 294 individuals ...
Xenia (Greek) Jupiter and Mercurius in the House of Philemon and Baucis (1630–33) by the workshop of Rubens: Zeus and Hermes, testing a village's practice of hospitality, were received only by Baucis and Philemon, who were rewarded while their neighbors were punished. Xenia ( Greek: ξενία) is an ancient Greek concept of hospitality.
The Pontic Greeks (Pontic: Ρωμαίοι, Ρωμιοί; Turkish: Pontus Rumları or Karadeniz Rumları; Greek: Πόντιοι, romanized: Póndii or Ελληνοπόντιοι, romanized: Ellinopóndii; Georgian: პონტოელი ბერძნები, romanized: P'ont'oeli Berdznebi), also Pontian Greeks or simply Pontians, are an ethnically Greek group indigenous to the region of ...
Ancient Greece usually encompasses Greek antiquity, as well as part of the region's late prehistory (Late Bronze Age). It lasted from c. 1200 BC – c. 600 AD and can be subdivided into the following periods: Greek Dark Ages (or Iron Age, Homeric Age), 1100–800 BC. Archaic period, 800–490 BC.
Ancient Macedonian, then Attic Greek, and later Koine Greek. Religion. ancient Greek religion. The Macedonians ( Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient tribe that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece.
Greek presence in Italy began with the migrations of traders and colonial foundations in the 8th century BC, continuing down to the present time. Nowadays, there is an ethnic minority known as the Griko people, who live in the Southern Italian regions of Calabria (Province of Reggio Calabria) and Apulia, especially the peninsula of Salento, within the ancient Magna Graecia region, who speak a ...
This writing system, unrelated to the Greek alphabet, last appeared in the thirteenth century BC. In the late ninth century BC or early eighth century BC, the Greek alphabet emerged. [2] The period between the use of the two writing systems, during which no Greek texts are attested, is known as the Greek Dark Ages.
Hellenistic Greece is the historical period of the country following Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the classical Greek Achaean League heartlands by the Roman Republic. This culminated at the Battle of Corinth in 146 BC, a crushing Roman victory in the Peloponnese that led to the ...