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This is a list of Greek place names as they exist in the Greek language. Places involved in the history of Greek culture, including: Historic Greek regions, including: Ancient Greece, including colonies and contacted peoples; Hellenistic world, including successor states and contacted peoples; Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, including ...
This is an incomplete list of ancient Greek cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign poleis. Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek.
The Greek Middle Ages are coterminous with the duration of the Byzantine Empire (330–1453). [citation needed]After 395 the Roman Empire split in two. In the East, Greeks were the predominant national group and their language was the lingua franca of the region.
Ancient Greek cities in Anatolia (10 C, 10 P) C. Cities in ancient Attica (1 C, 17 P) Cities in ancient Cyprus (1 C, 25 P) Pages in category "Ancient Greek cities"
Ancient Greek Theatres: 15 sites 2014 i, ii, iii, iv, v, vi (cultural) This nomination lists 15 Greek theatres in different regions of Greece. Theatres were an indispensable element of urban centres from the Classical period onwards, attaining their full architectural form in the 4th century BCE.
The name of Attica (Greek: Ἀττική) was said to be derived from Atthis, daughter of Cranaus, who was said to have been the second king of Athens. The origin of the name, however, is most likely pre-Greek in origin. Attica is bounded on the east by the Aegean sea, on the west by Megaris and the Saronic gulf and on the north by Boeotia.
Ancient Greek cities (5 C, 47 P) Cities in ancient Attica (1 C, 17 P) B. Cities in ancient Boeotia (1 C, 15 P) C. Cities in ancient Crete (1 C, 2 P) D. Delphi (7 C, 58 P)
A phrourion (Ancient Greek: φρούριον) was a fortified collection of buildings used as a military garrison and is the equivalent of the Roman castellum (English fortress). The word carries a sense of being a watching entity. A stratopedon (Ancient Greek: στρατόπεδον) was an army camp, equivalent to the Roman castra.