List of historical Greek countries and regions

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This is a list of Greek countries and regions throughout history. It includes empires, countries, states, regions and territories that have or had in the past one of the following characteristics:

Antiquity (to 330 AD)

Main article: Ancient Greece

Bronze Age

During the Bronze Age a number of entities were formed in Mycenean Greece (1600-1100 BC), each of them was ruled by a Wanax,[citation needed] including:

Knossos, a Minoan palace centre, was later occupied by the Mycenaeans [1]

City states

During the history of Ancient Greece a total of 1,500 to 2,000[2] city-states were established. These included:

Kingdoms, Empires and countries

Middle Ages (330–1453)

The Greek Middle Ages are coterminous with the duration of the File:Byzantine imperial flag, 14th century.svg 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. Christianity was the official religion of this new Empire, spread through the region by the Greek language, the language in which the first gospels were written. The language of the aristocracy however remained Latin, until gradually replaced by Greek by 7th century. The East Roman Empire retained its status as the power at least in the Mediterranean world until the 12th century. Amongst its impacts was the spread of Christianity to Eastern Europe and the Slavs, the halting of the Persian, Slavic and Arab expansions towards Europe and the preservation of a significant body of the cultural heritage of Greek-Roman Antiquity. In 1204, after a civil struggleover the succession of throne among the members of ruling Angelid(Angeloi), the Fourth Crusade conquered the capital, Constantinople. The Empire was subject to partitions and crises from which it never recovered.

Byzantine Greek successor states

Crusader states

Main article: Crusader states

Other states

Modern era (after 1453)

Independent states

Autonomous, secessionist or unrecognised entities

Main article: List of historical unrecognized states and dependencies

References

  1. ↑ Bury, J. B.; Meiggs, Russell (1975). A History of Greece (Fourth ed.). London: MacMillan Press. p. 19. ISBN 0-333-15492-4.
  2. ↑ Hanson, Victor Davis (2004). "Rural Greece Under the Democracy". Times Literary Supplement – via www.victorhanson.com.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 McGing, B. C. (1986). The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus. BRILL. p. 11. ISBN 978-9004075917.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Freely, John. Children of Achilles: The Greeks in Asia Minor Since the Days of Troy. pp. 69–70.
  5. ↑ Dueck, Daniela. Strabo of Amasia: A Greek Man of Letters in Augustan Rome. p. 3.
  6. ↑ Weiskopf, Michael (1990). "CAPPADOCIA". Encyclopaedia Iranica. Vol. IV, Fasc. 7-8. pp. 780–786. (...) Hellenistic-era Iranian kingdom (...) But all in all, Cappadocia remained an Iranian kingdom, one which developed from an Achaemenid satrapy.
  7. ↑ McGing, Brian (1986). "Eupator in Asia before the first war with Rome". The Foreign Policy of Mithridates VI Eupator, King of Pontus. BRILL. p. 72. ISBN 978-9004075917. As in Pontus the ruling family was of Iranian descent.
  8. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 April 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2008. In May 1914, the Great Powers signed the Protocol of Corfu, which recognised the area as Greek.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  9. ↑ "Republic of Pontus (Greece, 1917-1922)". Flags of the World.
  10. ↑ Gross, Andreas. "Gökçeada (Imbros) and Bozcaada (Tenedos): preserving the bicultural character of the two Turkish islands as a model for co-operation between Turkey and Greece in the interest of the people concerned". Council of Europe. Retrieved 4 September 2012.
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