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Greece Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, is a country in Southeast Europe. Located on the southern tip of the Balkan peninsula, it shares land borders with Albania to the northwest, North Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to th ...

, a country in Southern Europe: * Greeks, an ethnic group *

Greek language Greek (, ; , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic languages, Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), south ...

, a branch of the Indo-European language family ** Proto-Greek language, the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek ** Mycenaean Greek, most ancient attested form of the language (16th to 11th centuries BC) **

Ancient Greek Ancient Greek (, ; ) includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the classical antiquity, ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Greek ...

, forms of the language used c. 1000–330 BC **

Koine Greek Koine Greek (, ), also variously known as Hellenistic Greek, common Attic, the Alexandrian dialect, Biblical Greek, Septuagint Greek or New Testament Greek, was the koiné language, common supra-regional form of Greek language, Greek spoken and ...

, common form of Greek spoken and written during Classical antiquity ** Medieval Greek or Byzantine Language, language used between the Middle Ages and the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople ** Modern Greek, varieties spoken in the modern era (from 1453 AD) *

Greek alphabet 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, and is the earliest known alphabetic script to systematically write vowels as wel ...

, script used to write the Greek language * Greek Orthodox Church, several Churches of the Eastern Orthodox Church *

Ancient Greece Ancient Greece () was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity (), that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically r ...

, the ancient civilization before the end of Antiquity * Old Greek, the language as spoken from Late Antiquity to around 1500 AD *

Greek mythology Greek mythology is the body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greece, ancient Greeks, and a genre of ancient Greek folklore, today absorbed alongside Roman mythology into the broader designation of classical mythology. These stories conc ...

, a body of myths originally told by the Ancient Greeks

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* ''Greek'' (play), a 1980 play by Steven Berkoff * ''Greek'' (opera), a 1988 opera by Mark-Antony Turnage, based on Steven Berkoff's play * ''Greek'' (TV series) (also stylized ''GRΣΣK''), 2007 ABC Family channel's comedy-drama television series set at a fictitious college's fictional Greek system. *

Greek-letter organizations In North America, fraternities and sororities ( and ) are social clubs at colleges and universities. They are sometimes collectively referred to as Greek life or Greek-letter organizations, as well as collegiate fraternities or collegiate sorori ...

(GLOs), social organizations for undergraduate students at North American colleges * Greek love, a term referring variously to male bonding, homosexuality, pederasty and anal sex * Greek Revival architecture, an architectural movement of the late 18th and early 19th centuries * Greek Theatre (Los Angeles), a theatre located at Griffith Park in Los Angeles, California * Greeking, a style of displaying or rendering text or symbols in a computer display or typographic layout * Greeks, a group of scholars in 16th-century England who were part of the Grammarians' War * Greeks (finance), quantities representing the sensitivity of the price of derivatives * Nick the Greek (Nick Dandolos, 1883–1966), professional gambler * Phil the Greek, a nickname for Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1921–2021) * The Greek, a fictional character on the HBO drama ''The Wire.'' * ''The Greeks'' (book), a 1951 non-fiction book on classical Greece by H. D. F. Kitto

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