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The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100 – c. 800 BC) refers to the period of Greek history from the presumed Dorian invasion and end of the Mycenaean civilization in the 11th century BC to the rise of the first Greek city-states in the 9th century BC and the epics of Homer and earliest writings in the Greek alphabet in the 8th century BC.
Greece was the 9th most visited country in the world in 2022, hosting 28 million visitors, [265] an increase from 18 million tourists in 2007. [266] Most visitors come from the European continent, [267] while the most from a single nationality are from the United
Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (c. 600 AD), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
The Cretan Turks minority of Crete initially remained on the island but was later relocated to Turkey under the general population exchange agreed upon in the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne between Turkey and Greece. One of the most important figures to emerge from the end of Ottoman Crete was the liberal politician Eleftherios Venizelos, probably the ...
Arcadia is one of the regions described in the "catalogue of ships" in the Iliad. [13] Agamemnon himself gave Arcadia the ships for the Trojan war because Arcadia did not have a navy. There is a modern regional unit of Greece of the same name, which is more extensive than the ancient region.
African Greeks, or Greeks in Africa (Greek: Έλληνες της Αφρικής), are the Greek people in the continent of Africa. Greek communities have existed in Africa since antiquity. Greek communities have existed in Africa since antiquity.
island of Aeolus = one or more of the Aeolian Islands off Sicily's north coast [7] Scheria, the land of the Phaeacians = Corcyra (modern Corfu), off the west coast of Greece and Albania [8] Ogygia, the island home of the nymph Calypso = Gaulos, modern Gozo, part of the Maltese archipelago. [9]
The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3515073028. Isaac, Benjamin H. (1997). The Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest. Studies of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol 10. Brill Academic Pub. ISBN 978-9004069213. Treister, M Yu (1997). The Role of Metals in Ancient Greek ...