Medieval Greek (also known as Middle Greek, Byzantine Greek, or Romaic; Greek: Ῥωμαϊκή) is the stage of the Greek language between the end of classical...
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the Morea Northern Greece under the Second Bulgarian Empire (Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria) Ottoman Greece (Late Middle Ages) Medieval Greek This set index article...
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its "Ancient or Medieval Greek" system for all works and authors up to the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, although Byzantine Greek was pronounced distinctly...
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Byzantine Empire and developed into Medieval Greek. In its modern form, Greek is the official language of Greece and Cyprus and one of the 24 official...
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Greek fire was an incendiary weapon system used by the Byzantine Empire from the seventh to the fourteenth centuries. The recipe for Greek fire was a closely-guarded...
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Ancient Greek (Ἑλληνῐκή, Hellēnikḗ; [hellɛːnikɛ́ː]) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around...
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the Old English Beowulf, the Middle High German Nibelungenlied, the Medieval Greek Digenis Acritas, the Old East Slavic Tale of Igor's Campaign, and the...
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Constantinople (redirect from Medieval constantinople)
the city, was abandoned by the time Greek settlers from the city-state of Megara founded Byzantium (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον, Byzántion) in around 657 BC...
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the characteristic Greek sound-changes occurred within the Greek peninsula or if Proto-Greek speakers themselves migrated into Greece. Estimates for the...
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sometimes referred to as Standard Modern Greek. The end of the Medieval Greek period and the beginning of Modern Greek is often symbolically assigned to the...
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developed further into Medieval Greek, which then turned into Modern Greek. Literary Koine was the medium of much post-classical Greek literary and scholarly...
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the early medieval West, the Greek education of the East was more advanced, resulting in widespread basic literacy. Success came easily to Greek-speaking...
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Greek orthography has used a variety of diacritics starting in the Hellenistic period. The more complex polytonic orthography (Greek: πολυτονικὸ σύστημα...
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Peloponnese (redirect from Medieval peloponnese)
PEL-ə-pə-NEE-səs; Greek: Πελοπόννησος, romanized: Pelopónnēsos, IPA: [peloˈponisos]) or Morea (Medieval Greek: Μωρέας, romanized: Mōrèas; Greek: Μωριάς, romanized: Mōriàs)...
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Greek or greek in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Greek may refer to: Anything of, from, or related to Greece, a country in Southern Europe: Greeks,...
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Epsilon (redirect from Epsilon (Greek))
, UK: /ɛpˈsaɪlən/; uppercase Ε, lowercase ε or ϵ; Greek: έψιλον) is the fifth letter of the Greek alphabet, corresponding phonetically to a mid front...
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Griko people (category Articles containing Greek-language text)
The Griko people (Greek: Γκρίκο), also known as Grecanici in Calabria, are an ethnic Greek community of Southern Italy. They are found principally in the...
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Shroud of Turin (category Articles containing Medieval Greek-language text)
for didactic and devotional purposes. The concept of acheiropoieta (Medieval Greek: αχειροποίητα, lit. 'made without hand'; sg. acheiropoieton) has a long...
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The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It was derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet...
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descendants of the Byzantine Greeks of Anatolia. The language originally diverged from Medieval Greek after the late medieval migrations of the Turks from...
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names Greece and Greek are derived, via the Latin Graecia and Graecus, from the name of the Graeci (Γραικοί, Graikoí), one of the first ancient Greek tribes...
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Byzantine Empire (redirect from Byzantine Greek Empire)
scholarly form based on Attic Greek, and a vernacular based on Koine Greek. Most contemporary scholars consider all medieval Greek texts to be literature, but...
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always true". Medieval scholars and theologians, translating both the Bible and Greek philosophers into Latin out of the Koine and Classical Greek, cobbled...
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The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation-state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas...
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(c. 400 – c. 800 AD) Medieval Greek (c. 800 – c. 1500) "Old Greek" (OG) is also the technical term for the presumed initial Greek translations of the Hebrew...
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Katharevousa (redirect from Katharevusa Greek language)
Katharevousa (Greek: Καθαρεύουσα, pronounced [kaθaˈrevusa], literally "purifying [language]") is a conservative form of the Modern Greek language conceived...
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Sevastopol (category Articles containing Medieval Greek-language text)
modern day city of Sevastopol has no connection to the ancient and medieval Greek city other than geographical location, but the ruins are a popular tourist...
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Byzantium (category Articles containing Medieval Greek-language text)
Byzantium (/bɪˈzæntiəm, -ʃəm/) or Byzantion (Ancient Greek: Βυζάντιον) was an ancient Greek city in classical antiquity that became known as Constantinople...
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According to Greek law every Sunday of the year is a public holiday. In addition, there are nine mandatory, official public holidays: New Year's Day,...
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Corfu (redirect from Kerkira Island, Greece)
/ˈkɔːrf(j)uː/ KOR-few, -foo) or Kerkyra (Greek: Κέρκυρα, romanized: Kérkyra, pronounced [ˈcercira] ) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian...
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