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The royal coat of arms of Greece under the Glücksburg dynasty, created after the restoration of King George II to the throne in 1935. The Kingdom of Greece was ruled by the House of Wittelsbach from 1832 to 1862 and by the House of Glücksburg from 1863 to 1924 and, after being temporarily abolished in favor of the Second Hellenic Republic, again from 1935 to 1973, when it was once more ...
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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.
515 Hippias becomes sole ruler after the death of Hipparchus. 514 Tenedos, Lesbos and Abydos is annexed by Persian Empire; 513 Miltiades II defects from Athens to Persia; 513 Myrcinos is founded by Ionians; 513 Persia annexes Thrace (Region) 513 Cinyps, Libya, a failed Greek attempt to build a city under the leadership of Dorieus. [5]
ɪ k /; Koinē Greek: Πτολεμαϊκὴ βασιλεία, Ptolemaïkḕ basileía) [6] or Ptolemaic Empire [7] was an Ancient Greek polity based in Egypt during the Hellenistic period. [8] It was founded in 305 BC by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter , a companion of Alexander the Great , and ruled by the Ptolemaic dynasty until ...
In 247 BC, the Ptolemaic empire (the Greek rulers of Egypt following the death of Alexander the Great) captured the Seleucid capital, Antioch. In the resulting power vacuum, Andragoras , the Seleucid satrap of Parthia, proclaimed independence from the Seleucids, declaring himself king.
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.
Greek empire may refer to the following Greek regimes: Classical Greece. Macedonia (ancient kingdom) Hellenistic world. In the Hellenistic period, "Greek empire" may ...