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In October 1862, King Otto was deposed in a popular revolt, but while the Greek people rejected Otto, they did not seem averse to the concept of monarchy per se. Many Greeks, seeking closer ties to the pre-eminent world power, the United Kingdom , rallied around the idea that Prince Alfred , the second son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert ...
The early Athenian tradition, followed by the 3rd century BC Parian Chronicle, made Cecrops, a mythical half-man half-serpent, the first king of Athens. [5] The dates for the following kings were conjectured centuries later, by historians of the Hellenistic era who tried to backdate events by cross-referencing earlier sources such as the Parian Chronicle.
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This article lists kings of Thrace and Dacia, and includes Thracian, Paeonian, Celtic, Dacian, Scythian, Persian or Ancient Greek rulers up to the point of its fall to the Roman Empire, with a few figures from Greek mythology.
Agiad people were treated as a tribe, presumed to have descended from an ancestor bearing its name. He must have been a king, who founded a dynasty of his name. That mythologizing extended even to place names. They were presumed to have been named after kings and divinities. Kings often became divinities, in their religion.
Arcadian kings (1 C, 2 P) C. Kings of Cyrene (14 P) D. ... Pages in category "Ancient Greek monarchs" The following 52 pages are in this category, out of 52 total.
King Nicias – Indo-Greek king; Nicocreon – tyrant of Cyprus; Nicomachus – mathematician and neo-Pythagorean; Nicomachus of Thebes – painter; Nicomedes of Sparta, commanded the army of the Peleponnesian League at the Battle of Tanagra (457 BC) Nicomedes I of Bithynia – king of Bithynia; Nicomedes II of Bithynia – king of Bithynia
The Greek Middle Ages are coterminous with the duration of the 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.