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A little later, the rest of Greece did the same, and by 350 BC, during the life of Alexander the Great, almost all Greeks were using the same twenty-four letter Greek alphabet. Later, Aristophanes of Byzantium (c. 257–185 BC), a Greek scholar and grammarian, invented the three diacritics (accent marks): acute , grave , and circumflex , to mark the tone or pitch of Greek words.
The country was under control by the Ottoman Empire until 1821. The official language spoken in Greece is Greek, spoken by 99% of the population, and by 90% of the population of the Republic of Cyprus. It identifies as Christian Orthodox. Many Greeks also understand English, French and German, which are taught in schools.
Greco-Bactrian Kingdom. Kingdom of Bactria. Βάχλο ( Bactrian) 256 BC–c. 120 BC. Approximate maximum extent of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom circa 170 BC, under the reign of Eucratides the Great, including the regions of Tapuria and Traxiane to the west, Sogdiana and Ferghana to the north, Bactria and Arachosia to the south. Capital.
Deportations. Soviet Greeks were deported in three waves as part of the population transfer in the Soviet Union . on 29 May 1942, Stalin ordered a deportation of Pontic Greeks and other minorities from the Krasnodar Krai. [13] 1,402 Greeks, including 562 children up to the age of 16, were deported to the east.
Modern Greek (endonym: Νέα Ελληνικά, Néa Elliniká, [ˈne.a eliniˈka] or Κοινή Νεοελληνική Γλώσσα, Kiní Neoellinikí Glóssa), generally referred to by speakers simply as Greek (Ελληνικά, Elliniká), refers collectively to the dialects of the Greek language spoken in the modern era, including the official standardized form of the language sometimes ...
Greek people. The Greeks or Hellenes ( Greek: Έλληνες, romanized : Éllines) 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 diaspora, with many Greek ...
The Independent Greeks – National Patriotic Alliance ( Greek: Ανεξάρτητοι Έλληνες (ΑΝΕΛ), Anexartitoi Ellines, ANEL) is a national conservative [2] [3] [4] political party in Greece . The party was the junior coalition partner to the Coalition of the Radical Left (Syriza) in the first and second Tsipras governments, from ...
