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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.
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"
Places of concern to Greek culture, religion or tradition, including: Greek mythology; Greek Jews, including Romaniotes and exiled Sephardim; Greco-Buddhism; Christianity until the Great Schism, and afterwards the Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Rite, etc. Greek Muslims, and those outside Greece who are Greek-speaking or ethnic Greek
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Cities in ancient Greece (11 C, 155 P) A. Agrinio (2 C, ... Greek prefectural capitals (1 C, 44 P) H. ... Pages in category "Cities and towns in Greece"
Category: Ancient cities. 81 languages. ... Ancient Greek cities (5 C, 47 P) I. Ancient cities of the Iberian Peninsula (6 C, 4 P) Ancient Indian cities (3 C, 101 P)
The Modern Greek word πόλη (polē) is a direct descendant of the ancient word and roughly means 'city' or an urban place. However, the Ancient Greek term that specifically meant the totality of urban buildings and spaces was asty ( ἄστυ ), rather than polis.
Map of area. Helike marked "Ελίκη". A Hellenistic-era building, possibly used as a dye-works A coin from Helike. Helike was founded in the Early Bronze Age (c. 3000–2200 BC) as a proto-urban town with large rectilinear buildings and cobbled streets; walls and occupation layers rich in pottery of the Mycenaean period (c. 1750–1050 BC) were also found, [3] becoming the principal city of ...