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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 ...
Cities and Memory is a global sound art and field recording project. It features more than 6,000 sounds from over 120 countries and territories. [1] [2] The project consists of a global map, on which each location features two sounds: the original field recording of the place, and a remixed version of that sound by a sound artist/composer. [3]
The third-largest-city is Patras, with a metropolitan area of approximately 250,000 inhabitants. The table below lists the largest cities in Greece, by population size, using the official census results of 1991, [1] 2001, [2] 2011 [3] and 2021. [4]
Empty map: File:World map (Miller cylindrical projection, blank).svg Information available on pages Greeks and Greek diaspora on the English Wikipedia and at Joshua Project and Ausgreek Number of Greeks living abroad per country: NW, 1615 L. St. Pew Research Center's Global Attitudes Project Global Migration Map: Origins and Destinations, 1990 ...
Nicosia: Mispronunciation of the city's Greek name Λευκωσία Lefkosia (Turkish form 'Lefkoşa'), which means "White City". Czech Republic: Prague: The name Prague comes from an old Slavic root, praga, which means "ford", referring to the city's origin at a crossing of the Vltava River. The native name of the city, Praha, is also related ...
The Greek diaspora is one of the oldest diasporas in the world, with an attested presence from Homeric times to the present. [3] Examples of its influence range from the role played by Greek expatriates in the emergence of the Renaissance, through liberation and nationalist movements involved in the fall of the Ottoman Empire, to commercial developments such as the commissioning of the world's ...
This List of modern cities named after Athens recounts modern city names entirely named after Athens, Greece, or containing Athens as a segment. United States Athens, Alabama (pop. 30,904)
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.