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Alexander I of Macedon, runner and Olympic winner; Astylos of Croton; Pheidippides Phidippides, acclaimed runner and 'inspirator' of the Olympic Marathon race, who had run back and forth between Athens and Sparta in order to relay news of the Battle of Marathon, resulting in his death from ultimate exhaustion, when in his last breath he yelled out "We (the Greeks) won".
f Including Greek Muslims. The Greeks or Hellenes (/ ˈhɛliːnz /; Greek: Έλληνες, Éllines [ˈelines]) are an ethnic group and nation native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Anatolia, parts of Italy and Egypt, and to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea. They also form a significant ...
Greece, [ a ] officially the Hellenic Republic, [ b ] is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, Greece shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of the mainland, the Ionian Sea to the west, and ...
The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied throughout the ages and as a result, the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes.
Ranking in Greece World position Name Citizenship Net worth (USD) Sources of wealth 1: 455: Maria Angelicoussis Greece: 5.6 billion: Daughter of John Angelicoussis CEO of the Angelicoussis Group (shipping) 2: 905: Aristotelis "Telis" Mistakidis Greece: 3.2 billion: Mining, commodities (owns 3% Glencore), banking (owns 5% Piraeus Bank) 3: 1067 ...
For example, Greece is one of the very few countries, along with Italy, that derives the ethnicity of its people and the right to acquire citizenship from a single grandparent. [16] This means that anyone who has a grandmother or grandfather who was born as a Greek in Greece is an ethnic Greek and can apply for citizenship, even if their own ...
Being part of the phenomenon of the aging of Europe, the Greek population shows a rapid increase of the percentage of the elderly people. Greece's population census of 1961 found that 10.9% of the total population was above the age of 65, while the percentage of this group age increased to 19.0% in 2011.
Ancient Macedonian, then Attic Greek, and later Koine Greek. Religion. ancient Greek religion. The Macedonians (Greek: Μακεδόνες, Makedónes) were an ancient Greek tribe [ 1 ] that lived on the alluvial plain around the rivers Haliacmon and lower Axios in the northeastern part of mainland Greece.