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Polis [e] (pl.: poleis) [f] means 'city' in Ancient Greek. The ancient word polis had socio-political connotations not possessed by modern usage. For example, today's πόλη is located within a χώρα , "country", which is a πατρίδα (patrida) or "native land" for its citizens. [3] In ancient Greece, the polis was the native land ...
Operations of the ancient Amber Road, a trans-European, north–south amber trade route, continued and intensified during the Roman Empire. From the 1st century BC the Amber Road connected the Baltic Sea shores and Aquileia , an important amber processing center.
As ancient civilizations began to appear in southern and western Europe, the cultures of the area of present-day Poland were influenced by them to various degrees. Among the peoples that inhabited various parts of Poland up to the Iron Age stage of development were Scythian , Celtic , Germanic , Sarmatian , Roman , Avar , Vlach and Baltic tribes .
Ancient Greek architecture was produced by the Greek-speaking people whose culture flourished on the Greek mainland, the Peloponnese, the Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD. Ancient Greek architecture is distinguished by its highly formalized characteristics, both of ...
Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή, Hellēnikḗ; [hellɛːnikɛ́ː]) [1] includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek ( c. 1400–1200 BC ), Dark Ages ( c. 1200–800 BC ), the Archaic or Homeric ...
Education for Greek people was vastly "democratized" in the 5th century B.C., influenced by the Sophists, Plato, and Isocrates. Later, in the Hellenistic period of Ancient Greece, education in a gymn school was considered essential for participation in Greek culture. The value of physical education to the ancient Greeks and Romans has been ...
Korniakt Tower of the Dormition Church in Lwów (now Lviv), funded by Greek immigrant to Poland, wealthy merchant Konstanty Korniakt. Greeks, particularly merchants and traders, have been present in the Polish lands since the Bolesław I the Brave, [2] funding a number of Orthodox Apostolic and in lesser extent Greek Catholic Uniat churches (e.g. in Lublin and Mohylów Podolski) [3] [4] and ...
Ancient Greece (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλάς, romanized: Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilisation, 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 communities.