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  Greek (also, as a synonym: Hellenic) may refer to:
  • pertaining to Greece
    Greece

    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkans. It has borders with Albania, Bulgaria and the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia to the north, and Turkey to the east....
     (or specific earlier stages of its history:)
    • Ancient Greece
      Ancient Greece

      The term Ancient Greece refers to the period of History of Greece lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman Republic conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth ....
    • Roman Greece
      Roman Greece

      Roman Greece is the period of History of Greece following the Roman victory over the Corinthians at the Battle of Corinth 146 BC until the reestablishment of the city of Byzantium and the naming of the city by the Emperor Constantine I as the capital of the Roman Empire in 330 AD....
    • Medieval Greece
      Medieval Greece

      Greece during the Middle Ages:*Byzantine Greece *Northern Greece under the First Bulgarian Empire *various High Medieval Crusader states :**Latin Empire...
    • Ottoman Greece
      Ottoman Greece

      Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the 14th century until its declaration of independence in 1821, a historical period also known as Tourkokratia ....
  • Greeks
    Greeks

    The Greeks , also known as Hellenes, are a nation and ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus and neighbouring regions, who can also be found in Greek diaspora communities around the world....
    , persons from Greece, or of Greek descent.
  • Greek language
    Greek language

    Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
    , or more specifically:
    • Mycenaean Greek, (16th to 11th centuries BC)
    • Ancient Greek
      Ancient Greek

      Ancient Greek is the historical stage in the development of the Greek language spanning across the Archaic Greece , Classical Greece , and Hellenistic civilization periods of ancient Greece and the classical antiquity....
      , (c. 1000–330 BC)
    • Koine Greek
      Koine Greek

      Koine Greek is the popular form of Greek which emerged in post-Classical antiquity . Other names are Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Common, or New Testament Greek....
       or Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Common, New Testament Greek, (c. 330 BC – 330 AD)
    • Medieval Greek
      Medieval Greek

      Medieval Greek, also known as Byzantine Greek , is a cover term for all forms of the Greek language that were spoken and written during the time of the Byzantine Empire....
       or Byzantine Greek, (330–1453 AD)
    • Modern Greek
      Modern Greek

      Modern Greek refers the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features of the language had been present centuries earli...
      , (from 1453 AD)
  • Greek alphabet
    Greek alphabet

    The Greek alphabet is a set of twenty-four letters that has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th century BC or early 8th century BCE....


Other

Greek may also refer to:
  • Greeks (finance)
    Greeks (finance)

    In mathematical finance, the Greeks are the quantities representing the sensitivities of derivative such as option to a change in underlying parameters on which the value of an instrument or Portfolio of financial instruments is dependent....
    , a concept in mathematical finance crucial to the pricing of certain derivatives
  • Fraternities and sororities, often called the "Greek System," at colleges and universities.
  • Greek Theatre (Los Angeles)
    Greek Theatre (Los Angeles)

    The Greek Theatre is a 5,700-seat amphitheater located at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California. It was built in 1929, opening on September 29 of that year....
  • Greek (TV series)
    Greek (TV series)

    Greek is an United States teen comedy-drama television series which airs on the ABC Family network, the UK BBC Three network, the Australian pay-TV network FOX8, and on the TV2 channel in New Zealand....
    , an ABC Family show
  • Greeking
    Greeking

    Greeking is a term that refers to a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols....
    : inserting dummy text in a computer display or typographic layout


See also

  • Names of the Greeks
    Names of the Greeks

    Since the time of Homer, some Greeks have called themselves Hellenes ; in Homer, Greece and "Hellenes" were names of the tribe settled in Thessaly Phthia, led in the Iliad by Achilles....
  • Name of Greece
    Name of Greece

    The name of Greece is different in Greece than in the West, as are the names of the Greeks: although the country names itself the Hellenic Republic or Hellas , languages that were affected by the Romans used the term Greece....