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Greece (Ελλάδα)
Greece (Ελλάδα), the Hellenic Republic, a southeastern European parliamentary republic of about 10.5 million people on the southern Balkan Peninsula with roughly 3,000 islands; EU member since 1981, euro since 2002, capital Athens.
Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026
Greece took part in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 in Vienna with singer Akylas and "Ferto", chosen via "Sing for Greece 2026"; it was Greece's 46th participation since its 1974 debut.
Greece in the Roman era
Greece in the Roman era: mainland Greece under Roman rule from Cynoscephalae (197 BCE) and the province of Achaea (27 BCE) through Late Antiquity to Byzantium; Greek culture persisted while Latin made little impact.
Greece men's national basketball team
The Greece men's national basketball team, also known as the Greek national basketball team, represents Greece in international basketball, winning EuroBasket in 1987 and 2005 and World Cup silver in 2006.
Greece national football team
The Greece national football team (Greek: Εθνική Ελλάδος), run by the Hellenic Football Federation, won UEFA EURO 2004 by beating hosts Portugal 1-0 in the Lisbon final.
Greece–North Macedonia relations
Greece–North Macedonia relations: bilateral ties shaped by the 1991–2018 name dispute, the 1995 Interim Accord, the 2011 ICJ ruling, and the 2018 Prespa Agreement renaming the country Republic of North Macedonia.
Greed
Greed (avarice): the excessive, insatiable desire for more, with dissatisfaction with what one has. Distinct from self-interest empirically; studied in psychology, economics, and history; tied to pride-driven acquisition, unethical behavior, and lower well-being.
Greed (1924 film)
Greed (1924) is Erich von Stroheim's silent adaptation of Frank Norris's McTeague, cut by MGM from a lost nine-and-a-half-hour original to about 140 minutes; a 1999 reconstruction restored roughly four hours using stills.
Greed (2019 film)
Greed (2019) is a British satirical comedy-drama directed by Michael Winterbottom, starring Steve Coogan as fashion billionaire Sir Richard 'Greedy' McCreadie, a thinly veiled Philip Green, premiered at TIFF 2019 and released by Sony Pictures Classics in 2020.
GreedFall
GreedFall is a 2019 action role-playing game by the French studio Spiders, set in a fantasy world inspired by the 17th century, where the diplomat De Sardet seeks a cure for a plague.
GreedFall: The Dying World
GreedFall: The Dying World, originally GreedFall 2, is a 2026 prequel RPG by Spiders and Nacon set three years before GreedFall, casting a Teer Fradee native in Gacane with real-time-with-pause tactical combat; launched amid Nacon's insolvency and Spiders' shutdown.
Greedy
Greedy is a 1994 American comedy film directed by Jonathan Lynn, starring Michael J. Fox and Kirk Douglas, about scheming relatives competing for their wealthy Uncle Joe's fortune.
Greedy algorithm
A greedy algorithm is an optimization method that builds a solution step by step, taking the choice of greatest immediate benefit and never reconsidering, optimal for some problems.
Greedy coloring
Greedy coloring, also called the first-fit algorithm, is a simple graph coloring method that processes vertices in a chosen order, giving each the smallest color its already-colored neighbors lack.
Greedy coordinate gradient attack
The greedy coordinate gradient (GCG) attack is an automated jailbreak method for aligned large language models, introduced in a July 2023 paper by Andy Zou and colleagues.
Greef Karga
Greef Karga, Bounty Hunters Guild expeditor on Nevarro and later its Magistrate, is a fictional character in The Mandalorian played by Carl Weathers, who died in February 2024; later voiced by Carl Lumbly.
Greeicy
Greeicy, full name Greeicy Yeliana Rendón Ceballos, is a Colombian singer and former actress born in Cali in 1992, known for the singles "Brindemos", "Amantes", and "Jacuzzi".
Greek (ΣΣK) (TV series)
Greek (ΣΣK) is an American ABC Family comedy-drama (2007-2011), created by Patrick Sean Smith, following siblings Casey and Rusty Cartwright through fraternities and sororities at the fictional Cyprus-Rhodes University. Four seasons, 74 episodes, starring Spencer Grammer and Jacob Zachar.
Greek alphabet (Ελληνικό αλφάβητο)
The Greek alphabet (Ελληνικό αλφάβητο), adapted from the Phoenician abjad in the early first millennium BC, added true vowel letters Α Ε Ι Ο Υ, spawned the Latin and Cyrillic scripts, and was standardized with the Ionic alphabet at Athens in 403 BC.
Greek Americans
Greek Americans are Americans of Greek ancestry, over 1.2 million in the 2024 ACS, formed by immigration waves of 1900–1924 and 1965–1980, centered in New York, and organized around the Greek Orthodox Church, AHEPA, and the Greek-language press.
Greek Anthology
The Greek Anthology (Anthologia Graeca) is the largest surviving collection of short Greek poems, chiefly epigrams, assembled by Byzantine compilers such as Constantine Cephalas around 900.
Greek biography
Greek biography is the ancient Greek genre of the bios, a written account of a person's life, flourishing in the Hellenistic era and perfected by Plutarch.
Greek chorus
Greek chorus (choros, χορός): masked singing and dancing collective of ancient Greek tragedy, comedy, and satyr play, funded by chorēgoi, composed of citizen volunteers, and widely reimagined in modern theater.
Greek Civil War (Ελληνικός Εμφύλιος Πόλεμος)
The Greek Civil War (Greek: Εμφύλιος Πόλεμος, Emfýlios Pólemos) was a 1946–1949 war between the Greek government and communist rebels, one of the first conflicts of the Cold War.
Greek Civil War child evacuations
The Greek Civil War child evacuations, known as the Paidomazoma, saw communists move thousands of children to Eastern Europe while the government placed others in paidopoleis.
Greek cuisine
Greek cuisine: traditional food of Greece based on olive oil, grains, legumes, seafood, and wine, part of the Mediterranean diet, shaped by ancient, Byzantine, Ottoman, and 1920s Asia Minor refugee influences.
Greek Cypriots (Ελληνοκύπριοι)
Greek Cypriots (Ελληνοκύπριοι) are the Greek-speaking Orthodox majority community of Cyprus, descendants of Greek colonists since the 12th century BC, about 737,200 people or 80.1% of Republic-controlled Cyprus in 2022.
Greek Dark Ages
Greek Dark Ages: the roughly 1100–700 BC era after the Mycenaean collapse, illiterate between Linear B (c. 1200 BCE) and the alphabet (c. 800 BCE), marked by regional diversity and wealthy Lefkandi.
Greek declamation
Greek declamation, the meletē, was the practice in the Greek-speaking Roman Empire of delivering fictional speeches on historical or legal scenarios, peaking from about 60 to 230 CE.
Greek diaspora (Ομογένεια)
Greek diaspora (Ομογένεια, omogenia): communities of Greeks outside Greece and Cyprus. Major waves to the US (1900–1920), postwar Germany, Australia, Canada, and post-2010 brain drain; postal voting adopted 2026.