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Map of the world in 323 BC Map of the Eastern Hemisphere in 100 BC. Classical demography refers to the study of human demography in the Classical period.It often focuses on the absolute number of people who were alive in civilizations around the Mediterranean Sea between the Bronze Age and the fall of the Western Roman Empire, but in recent decades historians have been more interested in ...
According to Mogens Herman Hansen and his book "The shotgun method : the demography of the ancient Greek city-state culture" by the 4th century BC, the Greek mainland contained a minimum of 4,000,000 people, while the total Greek population, including all the Greek cities throughout the Mediterranean and Black Sea, reached 7,5-10,000,000 people ...
The Demographics of Greece refer to the demography of the population that inhabits the country. The population of Greece was estimated by the Hellenic Statistical Authority to be 10,400,720 in 2024. The latest census in Greece was performed in 2021.
The Parthenon, in Athens, a temple to Athena. Classical Greece was a period of around 200 years (the 5th and 4th centuries BC) in ancient Greece, [1] marked by much of the eastern Aegean and northern regions of Greek culture (such as Ionia and Macedonia) gaining increased autonomy from the Persian Empire; the peak flourishing of democratic Athens; the First and Second Peloponnesian Wars; the ...
Religion in Greece is dominated by Christianity, in particular the Greek Orthodox Church, which is within the larger communion of the Eastern Orthodox Church. It represented 81% of the total population in 2022 [ 1 ] and is constitutionally recognized as the "prevailing religion" of Greece .
Religious practices in ancient Greece encompassed a collection of beliefs, rituals, and mythology, in the form of both popular public religion and cult practices. The application of the modern concept of "religion" to ancient cultures has been questioned as anachronistic. [1] The ancient Greeks did not have a word for 'religion' in the modern ...
The ancient Greek tribes (Ancient Greek: Ἑλλήνων ἔθνη) were groups of Greek-speaking populations living in Greece, Cyprus, and the various Greek colonies. They were primarily divided by geographic , dialectal , political , and cultural criteria, as well as distinct traditions in mythology and religion .
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