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Greek colonies and communities have been historically established in most corners of the Mediterranean, but Greeks have always been centered around the Aegean Sea, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age. Greek people have greatly influenced and contributed to culture, arts, exploration, literature, philosophy, politics, architecture, music, mathematics, science, technology, cuisine, and sports, both historically and contemporary. Let's take a look to some important figures of the Greek Civilization.

Category: History

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Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of the Greek kingdom of Macedon. Born in Pella in 356 BC, Alexander succeeded his ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

Archimedes of Syracuse ( 287 BC –  212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

Aristotle (born at 384 – died at 322 BCE) was a Greek philosopher born in Stagirus, northern Greece, in 384 BCE. His father, Nicomachus, died when Aristotle was a child, whereafter Proxenus of ...

Domain: History; Category: Ancient Greece

Constantine XI Dragaš Palaiologos, Latinized as Palaeologus (8 February 1404 – 29 May 1453) was the last reigning Byzantine Emperor, reigning as a member of the Palaiologos dynasty from 1449 to his ...

Domain: History; Category: European history

El Greco, born Doménikos Theotokópoulos (1541 – 7 April 1614), was a painter, sculptor and architect of the Spanish Renaissance. "El Greco" (The Greek) was a nickname, a reference to his ...

Domain: Art history; Category: General art history

Eleftherios Venizelos (born at 23 August 1864 – died at 18 March 1936) was an eminent Greek leader of Greek national liberation movement and a charismatic statesman of the early 20th century ...

Domain: History; Category: European history

Georgius Gemistus later called Plethon or Pletho , was a Greek scholar of Neoplatonic philosophy. He was one of the chief pioneers of the revival of Greek learning in Western Europe. In the dying ...

Domain: History; Category: European history

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