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Greek is an Indo-European language, the sole surviving descendant of the Hellenic sub-family. Although it split off from other Indo-European languages before 2000 BC, it is first attested in the Bronze Age as Mycenaean Greek. During the Archaic and Classical eras, Greek speakers wrote numerous texts in a variety of dialects known collectively as Ancient Greek. In the Hellenistic era, these dialects underwent dialect levelling to form Koine Greek which was used as a lingua franca throughout the eastern Roman Empire, and later grew into Medieval Greek. For much of the period of Modern Greek, the language existed in a situation of diglossia, where speakers would switch between informal varieties known as Dimotiki and a formal one known as Katharevousa. Present-day Modern Standard Greek is largely an outgrowth of Dimotiki, with some features retained from Katharevousa.
the characteristic Greek sound-changes occurred within the Greek peninsula or if Proto-Greek speakers themselves migrated into Greece. The first known script...
The historyofGreece encompasses the historyof the territory of the modern nation-state ofGreece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they...
start of the Modern Greek Enlightenment, as Greeks who studied in Western Europe brought knowledge and ideas back to their homeland, and as Greek merchants...
HistoryofGreek Sicily (Ancient Greek: Σικελία) began with the foundation of the first Greek colonies around the mid 8th century BC. The Greeksof Sicily...
most ethnic Greeks live within the borders of the modern Greek state or in Cyprus. The Greek genocide and population exchange between Greece and Turkey...
1830, with Greek independence from the Turks, the Greek population was about 5,000,000 (almost one fifth,750,000 , in independent Greece and many in...
economic historyofGreece refers to the economic historyof the Greek nation state since 1829. Cycladic civilization is the earliest trading center of goods...
Ancient Greece (Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries...
The historyof the Greek alphabet starts with the adoption of Phoenician letter forms in the 9th–8th centuries BC during early Archaic Greece and continues...
The military historyofGreece is the historyof the wars and battles that took place in Greece, the Balkans, and the Greek colonies in the Mediterranean...
characteristic Jewish group that has inhabited Greece are the Romaniotes, also known as "Greek Jews." The term "Greek Jew" is predominantly used for any Jew that...
aesthetics. Greek philosophy continued throughout the Hellenistic period and later evolved into Roman philosophy. Greek philosophy has influenced much of Western...
The historyof Egypt has been long and wealthy, due to the flow of the Nile River with its fertile banks and delta, as well as the accomplishments of Egypt's...
Ancient Greek and Byzantine cuisine, while incorporating Turkish, Balkan, and Italian influences. Greek cuisine is part of the culture ofGreece and is...
and other parts of Northern Greece. The Tsakonian language, a distinct Greek language deriving from Doric Greek instead of Koine Greek, is still spoken...
This is a timeline of modern Greekhistory. 1821, 21 February: Revolt ofGreek War of Independence from the Ottoman Empire declared by Alexandros Ypsilantis...
Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology...
the modern historyofGreece, starting from the Greek War of Independence, the Constitution of 1975/1986/2001 is the last in a series of democratically...
A Manual ofGreek Mathematics, a concise version of the two-volume History. Thomas Heath was a British civil servant, whose hobby was Greek mathematics...
Ancient Greek phonology is the reconstructed phonology or pronunciation of Ancient Greek. This article mostly deals with the pronunciation of the standard...
Mycenaean Greece. For later times see Roman Greece, Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Greece. For modern Greece after 1820, see Timeline of modern Greekhistory. 785...
Kingdom (/ˌtɒlɪˈmeɪ.ɪk/; Koinē Greek: Πτολεμαϊκὴ βασιλεία, romanized: Ptolemaïkḕ basileía) or Ptolemaic Empire was an Ancient Greek polity based in Egypt during...
difference between Greek mathematics and those of preceding civilizations. Greek mathēmatikē ("mathematics") derives from the Ancient Greek: μάθημα, romanized: máthēma...
The Greek War of Independence, also known as the Greek Revolution or the Greek Revolution of 1821, was a successful war of independence by Greek revolutionaries...
The cinema ofGreece has a long and rich history. Though hampered at times by war or political instability, the Greek film industry dominates the domestic...
of the autonomous Septinsular Republic in 1800), is known in Greek as Tourkokratia (Greek: Τουρκοκρατία, "Turkish rule"; English: "Turkocracy"). Some regions...
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