Hellenic is a synonym for Greek. It means either:
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Hellenic Republic
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...
(modern Greece) or Greek people (
Hellenes, ) and culture
*of or pertaining to
ancient Greece
Ancient Greece () was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically r ...
, ancient Greek people, culture and civilization.
It may also refer to:
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Hellenic Academy, an independent high school in Harare, Zimbabwe
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Hellenic Airlines
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Hellenic College, a liberal arts college in Brookline, Massachusetts
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Hellenic College of London
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Hellenic Conservatory
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Hellenic FC, a football club in South Africa
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Hellenic Football League
The Hellenic Football League, currently known as the uhlsport Hellenic Football League for sponsorship reasons, is an English men's association football, football league covering an area including the English Counties of the United Kingdom, cou ...
, an association football league in England
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Hellenic languages
Hellenic is the branch of the Indo-European language family whose principal member is Greek language, Greek. In most classifications, Hellenic consists of Greek alone,Browning (1983), ''Medieval and Modern Greek'', Cambridge: Cambridge Universi ...
, a branch of the Indo-European languages
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Hellenic Parliament
The Parliament of the Hellenes (), commonly known as the Hellenic Parliament (), is the Unicameralism, unicameral legislature of Greece, located in the Old Royal Palace, overlooking Syntagma Square in Athens. The parliament is the supreme demo ...
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Hellenic Petroleum (company)
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Hellenic Post
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Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund
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Hellenic studies
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Tampa Bay Hellenic, a women's soccer team in the United States
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Hellenic (horse) (1987–2011), a thoroughbred racehorse
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See also
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Greek (disambiguation)
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Helladic period
Helladic chronology is a relative dating system used in archaeology and art history. It complements the Minoan chronology scheme devised by Sir Arthur Evans for the categorisation of Bronze Age artefacts from the Minoan civilization within a his ...
, the Bronze Age in mainland Greece
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Hellas (disambiguation)
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Hellen
In Greek mythology, Hellen (; ) is the eponymous progenitor of the Greeks, Hellenes. He is the son of Deucalion (or Zeus) and Pyrrha, and the father of three sons, Dorus, Xuthus, and Aeolus (son of Hellen), Aeolus, by whom he is the ancestor of t ...
, the eponymous ancestor of the Hellenes
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Hellene
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Hellenism (disambiguation)
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Hellenistic period
In classical antiquity, the Hellenistic period covers the time in Greek history after Classical Greece, between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the death of Cleopatra VII in 30 BC, which was followed by the ascendancy of the R ...
, about 323 BC to 31 BC
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Hellenization
Hellenization or Hellenification is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonisation often led to the Hellenisation of indigenous people in the Hellenistic period, many of the ...
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