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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.
Map showing the major regions of mainland ancient Greece, and adjacent "barbarian" lands. The regions of ancient Greece were sub-divisions of the Hellenic world as conceived by the Ancient Greeks of antiquity, shown by their presence in the works of ancient historians and geographers or in surviving legends and myths.
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.
Pages in category "Ancient Greek cities" The following 47 pages are in this category, out of 47 total. ... Marathon, Greece; O. Opus, Greece; Orchomenus (Boeotia ...
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.
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.
English: Map of "The archaic period in ancient Greece or ancient Hellas (750 BC – 480 BC)" Date: 4 July 2016: Source: ... Blank map from Image:Map greek sanctuaries ...
Pages in category "Cities in ancient Greece" The following 155 pages are in this category, out of 155 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *