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Lake Paralimni (Greek: Λίμνη Παραλίμνη, Limne Paralimni, Latinised as Lacus Paralimnus), formerly named Lake Ougria, Latinized to Uggria, is the easternmost of an east-west sequence of three ancient lakes in Central Greece that divided the mountains of Phocis from the plains of southern Boeotia on the east and the northern plains of Boeotia from the southern on the west.
The Greek Dark Ages (c. 1100 – c. 800 BC) refers to the period of Greek history from the presumed Dorian invasion and end of the Mycenaean civilization in the 11th century BC to the rise of the first Greek city-states in the 9th century BC and the epics of Homer and earliest writings in the Greek alphabet in the 8th century BC.
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
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.
Many Greek cities are allied with one or the other. Dates before this time uncertain. 725 Thapsos abandoned and Megara Hyblaea is settled by the Thapsos settlers; 720s/710s Droughts on Euboea; 720 Korinth removes the Liburnians from Kerkyra; 720: Sybaris is founded by Achaeans from Helice; 719 Polydorus, King of Sparta, is murdered by Polymarchus.
1 June 1913 (Greek–Serbian Treaty of Peace, Friendship and Mutual Protection): delineation of the Greek–Serbian border (now the border between Greece and North Macedonia). 10 August 1913 (Treaty of Bucharest): Following the Second Balkan War, Greece secures eastern Macedonia from Bulgaria, up to Kavala.
The series of Syran-built graves, containing crouching corpses, is the best and most representative that is known in the Aegean. Melos, long marked as a source of early objects but not systematically excavated until taken in hand by the British School at Athens in 1896, yielded at Phylakope remains of all the Aegean periods, except the Neolithic .
The definitive Roman occupation of the Greek world was established after the Battle of Actium (31 BC), in which Augustus defeated Cleopatra VII, the Greek Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, and the Roman general Mark Antony, and afterwards conquered Alexandria (30 BC), the last great city of Hellenistic Egypt. [5]