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5000 BCE
MEDIEVAL PERIOD
The Roman Empire in the east, following the fall of the Empire in the west in the 5th century, is conventionally known as the Byzantine Empire (but was simply called "Roman Empire" in its own time) and lasted until 1453. With its capital in Constantinople, its language and literary culture was Greek and its religion was predominantly Eastern Orthodox Christian -
3000 BCE
MINOICA CIVILIZACION
IT IS EXTENDED BY THE ISLANDS FROM THE EGEU AND JONIC SEA AND FOR NIGHTS COSTS OF ASIA MENOR AND THE WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN, THE GRECS WERE THIS AREA EL LADE, WHICH SIGNS THE TERRITORY OF THE GRECS -
2100 BCE
BOOM OF MINOICA CULTURE
It is a pre-Hellenic culture of the age of copper and bronze -
1947 BCE
THE TERRITORIAL EVOLUTION
The territorial evolution of the Kingdom of Greece from 1832 to 1947. -
1839 BCE
THE ENTRY OF KING
The Entry of King Otto in Athens, painted by Peter von Hess in 1839. -
1665 BCE
THE PALACE OF THE GRAND MASTER
The Palace of the Grand Master of the Knights of Rhodes, administrative centre of the Knights Hospitaller -
1025 BCE
THE DEATH OF BASIL
The Byzantine (Eastern Roman) Empire after the death of Basil II in 1025 -
776 BCE
THE END OF THE DARK AGES
The end of the Dark Ages is traditionally dated to 776 BC, the year of the first Olympic Games.[34] The Iliad and the Odyssey, the foundational texts of Western literature, are believed to have been composed by Homer in the 7th or 8th centuries BC.[35][36] With the end of the Dark Ages, there emerged various kingdoms and city-states across the Greek peninsula -
500 BCE
THE PERSIAN EMPIRE
The Persian Empire controlled the Greek city states in Asia Minor and Macedonia, Attempts by some of the Greek city-states of Asia Minor to overthrow Persian rule failed, -
495
THE FIST PERSIAN INVATION
The first Persian invasion of Greece, during the Persian Wars, began in 492 BC, and ended with the decisive Athenian victory at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC. The invasion, consisting of two distinct campaigns, was ordered by the Persian king Darius the Great primarily in order to punish the city-states of Athens and Eretria. -
GREEK WAR INDEPENDENCE
In the late eighteenth century, an increase in secular learning during the Modern Greek Enlightenment led to the revival among Greeks of the diaspora of the notion of a Greek nation tracing its existence to ancient Greece, distinct from the other Orthodox peoples, and having a right to political autonomy -
HELLENIC ARMY FORMATION
Hellenic Army formation in the World War I Victory Parade in Arc de Triomphe, Paris, July 1919.