This article is about the spread of Greek culture. For the renaming of places in Greece, see Hellenization of place names.
One of the mosaics of Delos, Greece with the symbol of the Punic-Phoenician goddess Tanit
Hellenization (also spelled Hellenisation) or Hellenism[1] is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonisation often led to the Hellenisation of indigenous peoples; in the Hellenistic period, many of the territories which were conquered by Alexander the Great were Hellenized.
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Hellenization (also spelled Hellenisation) or Hellenism is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient...
Hellenion (Greek: Ἑλλήνιον) has been used to refer to: Hellenion (Naucratis), an Ancient Greek sanctuary in Naucratis of Egypt (founded in the 6th century...
Greek culture and colonization—a process of cultural change called Hellenization—over non-Greek lands, including the Levant. This gave rise to the Hellenistic...
The most common native ethnonym is Hellen (Ancient Greek: Ἕλλην), pl. Hellenes (Ἕλληνες); the name Greeks (Latin: Graeci) was used by the ancient Romans...
abolished on 1 June 1973. Greek consorts bore the title, Queen of the Hellenes and the style, Majesty. The following queens were spouses of the kings...
Alexander's death. This Hellenistic age, so called because it saw the partial Hellenization of many non-Greek cultures, extending all the way into India and Bactria...
Anatolia transitioned into cultural Hellenization following the conquests of Alexander the Great; Hellenization continued during the Roman and Byzantine...
Alexander had conquered became subject to a strong Greek influence (Hellenization) for the next two or three centuries, until the rise of Rome in the...
from the workings of the "Third of September National Assembly of the Hellenes in Athens" and was a Constitutional Pact, in other words, a contract between...
six votes in the plebiscite. Aged only 17, he was elected King of the Hellenes on 30 March [O.S. 18 March] 1863 by the Greek National Assembly under the...
The Hellenizing school (in Cassical Armenian : Յունաբան Դպրոց, romanized Yownaban Dproc̕), also called the Philhellenic School, was an Armenian intellectual...
The Parliament of the Hellenes (Greek: Βουλή των Ελλήνων, romanized: Voulí ton Ellínon), commonly known as the Hellenic Parliament (Greek: Ελληνικό Κοινοβούλιο...
the inscription "King of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark", Alexander's reads "Alexander, son of the King of the Hellenes, Prince of Denmark. He ruled...
fundamentally a Hellenized religion. Pope Benedict XVI (born Joseph A. Ratzinger) argues that several key ideas in Christian thought reveal the Hellenization of Christianity:...
The Supreme Council of Ethnic Hellenes (Greek: Ύπατο Συμβούλιο των Ελλήνων Εθνικών, Ýpato Symvoúlio to̱n Ellí̱no̱n Ethnikó̱n), commonly referred to by...
XIII : King of the Hellenes. Atlantic International Publications. ISBN 0-938311-12-3. Van der Kiste, John (1994). Kings of the Hellenes. The Greek Kings...
Thessaloniki 2005, p. 7-14 [2] D. C. Samsaris, The Hellenization of Thrace, passim [3] D. C. Samsaris, The Hellenization of Thrace, p. 320-330 D. C. Samsaris, Surveys...
Βασιλεὺς τῆς Ἑλλάδος). His successor, George I, was styled King of the Hellenes (Βασιλεὺς τῶν Ἑλλήνων), as were all other modern Greek monarchs. The Greek...
15 September 2015. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "George I., King of the Hellenes" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 11 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press...
monarchists won and it was organised for Constantine to become King of the Hellenes, while Venizelos was replaced with Dimitrios Rallis. Before Venizelos'...
Christi (soldiers of Christ). Alternative terms used in Christian texts were hellene, gentile, and heathen. Ritual sacrifice was an integral part of ancient...
of the Hellenes. An outline of his personality and times", Parnassos, vol. 46, pp. 355–360. Van der Kiste, John (1994). Kings of the Hellenes. Sutton...
throughout the life of the Byzantine Empire (330-1453). Whilst the noun 'Hellene' refers simply to what is ‘Greek’, Hellenisation comes from the word Hellazein...
The Attic calendar or Athenian calendar is the lunisolar calendar beginning in midsummer with the lunar month of Hekatombaion, in use in ancient Attica...
in which Greek culture, religion, and language is adopted, known as Hellenization Dehellenization of Christianity, a question within modern Catholic discourse...
Constantinople, Gemistus Pletho tried to restore the use of the term "Hellene" and advocated the return to the Olympian Gods of the ancient world.[citation...
honours Zeus and two divine sons. The sons are Heracles and Alexander." Hellenization was coined by the German historian Johann Gustav Droysen to denote the...
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