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A study from 2013 for prediction of hair and eye colour from DNA of the Greek people showed that the self-reported phenotype frequencies according to hair and eye colour categories was as follows: 119 individuals – hair colour, 11 blond, 45 dark blond/light brown, 49 dark brown, 3 brown red/auburn and 11 had black hair; eye colour, 13 with ...
This an alphabetical list of ancient Greeks. These include ancient people of Greek culture who were also born and have Greek origins and ethnic Greeks from Greece and the Mediterranean world. These include ancient people of Greek culture who were also born and have Greek origins and ethnic Greeks from Greece and the Mediterranean world.
This is a list of ethnic Greeks who were born after the Declaration of the Greek War of Independence (1821), outside the borders of the Greek state. The list does not include Greeks born in the diasporan communities or Greeks of Cyprus (after its independence in 1960), but only Greeks born in the traditional Greek homelands (the Balkans ...
Almost two-thirds of the Greek people live in urban areas. Greece's largest and most influential metropolitan centres are Athens (population 3,744,059 according to 2021 census) and Thessaloniki (population 1,092,919 in 2021) that latter commonly referred to as the symprotévousa (συμπρωτεύουσα, lit. ' co-capital '). [291]
The first Greek-speaking people, called Myceneans or Mycenean-Achaeans by historians, entered present-day Greece sometime in the Neolithic era or the Bronze Age. Homer refers to " Achaeans " as the dominant tribe during the Trojan War period usually dated to the 12th–11th centuries BC, [ 1 ] [ 2 ] using Hellenes to describe a relatively small ...
also: Countries: Greece: People Wikimedia Commons has media related to People of Greece . See also the categories Greek families , Works by Greek people , and Wikipedia categories named after Greek people
For the Greeks, even today, ethnicity has greater significance than for many other peoples. [1] [2] [3] After all, during the three century long Islamic-Ottoman occupation, the Greeks managed to preserve their culture, Greek Orthodox faith, language and identity unharmed; and from 1821 onwards, they were able to re-establish their own sovereign state with an intact ethnicity.
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