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ancient Greek
Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...
cities, including colonies outside Greece, and including settlements that were not sovereign ''
poleis
Polis (: poleis) means 'city' in Ancient Greek. The ancient word ''polis'' had socio-political connotations not possessed by modern usage. For example, Modern Greek πόλη (polē) is located within a (''khôra''), "country", which is a πατ ...
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Many colonies outside Greece were soon assimilated to some other language but a city is included here if at any time its population or the dominant stratum within it spoke Greek. Also included are some cities that were not Greek-speaking or Hellenic, but contributed to the Hellenic culture of the region.
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Greek colonisation
Greek colonisation refers to the expansion of Archaic Greeks, particularly during the 8th–6th centuries BC, across the Mediterranean Sea and the Black Sea.
The Archaic expansion differed from the Iron Age migrations of the Greek Dark Ag ...
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Adjectival and demonymic forms of regions in Greco-Roman antiquity
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List of cities in ancient Epirus
This is a list of cities in ancient Epirus. These were Greece, Greek poleis, komes or fortresses except for Nicopolis, which was founded by Octavian. Classical Epirus was divided into three regions: Chaonia, Molossia, Thesprotia, each named after ...
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Greek cities in Thrace and Dacia
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Greek cities in Illyria
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Towns of ancient Greece The archetypical settlement in ancient Greece was the self-governing city state called the ''polis'' (), but other types of settlement occurred.
Kome
A ''kome'' () was typically a village that was also a political unit. The translation is inex ...
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List of cities in ancient Acarnania
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Regions of ancient Greece
The regions of ancient Greece were sub-divisions of the Hellenic world as conceived by the ancient Greeks, shown by their presence in the works of ancient historians and geographers or in surviving legends and myths.
Conceptually, there is no cl ...
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Cities
A city is a human settlement of a substantial size. The term "city" has different meanings around the world and in some places the settlement can be very small. Even where the term is limited to larger settlements, there is no universally agree ...
Lists of cities
Populated places in Greece
Cities in ancient Greece