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Greek drachma
The Greek drachma was Greece's currency, an ancient silver coin from the sixth century BCE and the modern national currency from 1833 until the euro in 2002.
Greek dress
Greek dress spans the chiton, peplos, and himation of antiquity, Byzantine court costume, and the regional Ottoman-era folk costumes signaling status, age, and marital status. King Otto's foustanela and Queen Amalia's 1837 dress became the invented national costumes now worn ceremonially.
Greek epistolography
Greek epistolography is the branch of Greek literature concerned with letters, both real correspondence and fictional letter collections and epistolary novels spanning Homer to Byzantium.
Greek fire
Greek fire, also known as Byzantine fire, was a closely guarded Byzantine incendiary weapon, projected from ship siphons, that kept burning on water and saved Constantinople from Arab sieges.
Greek Football Cup (Κύπελλο Ελλάδας)
The Greek Football Cup, founded in 1931, is Greece's annual knockout football competition; Olympiacos is its most successful club with 27 titles.
Greek genocide
The Greek genocide refers to the persecution, deportation, and killing of Ottoman Greeks, especially Pontic Greeks, from 1913 to 1923, with death toll estimates from 300,000 to over one million and contested genocide recognition.
Greek geographical literature
Greek geographical literature is the body of ancient Greek writing describing the inhabited world, a genre named by Eratosthenes and culminating in Strabo's 17-book Geography of around 25 CE.
Greek government-debt crisis
The Greek government-debt crisis, also called the Greek debt crisis, was a sovereign debt collapse beginning in 2010, managed through three eurozone bailouts totaling about €290 billion until 2018.
Greek hero cult
Greek hero cult, or hero-cult, was the recurring ritual worship of dead Greeks by communities wider than the family, usually at tombs, widespread from the 8th century BC.
Greek Heroic Age
The Greek Heroic Age is the era of Greek legend before the Trojan War, the fourth of five ages in Hesiod's Works and Days and the only one not named after a metal.
Greek hyperinflation 1941–44
The Greek hyperinflation of 1941–44 was the collapse of the drachma under the Axis occupation of Greece, with prices peaking at 13,800% per month in October 1944, one of the worst ever recorded.
Greek invasions of India
The Greek invasions of India (यवन आक्रमण) were armed expeditions into India by Hellenistic rulers, beginning with Seleucus I's campaign against Chandragupta Maurya around 305–303 BC.
Greek junta
Greek junta (Regime of the Colonels, 1967-1974), right-wing military dictatorship of Greece begun by Georgios Papadopoulos's 21 April 1967 coup and ended by the Turkish invasion of Cyprus on 24 July 1974.
Greek land reform of 1922
The Greek land reform of 1922 requisitioned property and redistributed land to settle over 1.2 million refugees from the defeated Asia Minor campaign, dismantling large estates.
Greek land reforms of 1917–1920
The Greek land reforms of 1917–1920 were a program of expropriation and redistribution of large estates, announced by Venizelos's National Defence government on May 20, 1917.
Greek language
Greek (Ελληνική γλώσσα) is an independent branch of Indo-European, attested from Mycenaean Linear B tablets of the 14th–12th century BCE, with at least thirty ancient dialects, the Hellenistic Koine, and a modern standard.
Greek Left Alliance (Ελληνική Αριστερή Συμπαράταξη)
Greek Left Alliance (Ελληνική Αριστερή Συμπαράταξη, ELAS), Greek left-wing party founded by Alexis Tsipras on 26 May 2026 after leaving SYRIZA; acronym echoes the WWII resistance army; aims to unite radical left, social democracy, and greens ahead of the 2027 elections.
Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering
Greek letters used in mathematics, science, and engineering are the 24 Greek alphabet letters used as symbols for quantities and constants, from π for the circle ratio to Σ for summation.
Greek love
Greek love: same-sex erotic relationships of ancient Greece, especially age-structured male pairs, and the scholarship on them, from Dover's Greek Homosexuality (1978) and Foucault to Davidson's 2007 reappraisal.
Greek mafia (Ελληνική μαφία)
Greek mafia (Ελληνική μαφία) is the media term for Greece's domestic organized crime groups: drug trafficking, extortion, fuel and tobacco smuggling, and over 20 contract killings since 2017, including the 2025 murder of Giorgos Moschouris.
Greek mime
Greek mime (μῖμος) was an ancient unmasked comic genre imitating everyday life through speech, dance, and improvisation; originating in Sicily, it became the dominant popular theater of the Roman world.
Greek mythology
Greek mythology: the body of ancient Greek stories about gods, heroes, and the world's origins, transmitted orally and in Hesiod's Theogony and Homer's epics, with no fixed canon and strong Near Eastern parallels.
Greek mythology in popular culture
Greek mythology in popular culture: the reuse of Greek gods and myths in film, TV, games, and literature, from Méliès's 1898 Pygmalion to Nolan's 2026 Odyssey, feminist retellings, God of War, Hades, and casting debates.
Greek Mythology Theme Park
Greek Mythology Theme Park (Θεματικό Πάρκο Ελληνικής Μυθολογίας) names two Greek attractions: a closed, for-sale 13-exhibit monster sculpture park in Pyrgos, Elis, and the Pitarokilis family's 3,000 m² mythology and Minoan park in Psychro, Lasithi, Crete.
Greek novel
The Greek novel, also called the Greek romance, is ancient Greek prose fiction from the first to fourth centuries CE, best known for love stories of separated noble lovers.
Greek numerals
Greek numerals, also called Ionian, Milesian, or Alexandrian numerals: the alphabetic Greek numeral system using 24 letters plus stigma, koppa, and sampi to write 1–999 additively, with the keraia for thousands, alongside the older acrophonic Attic system.
Greek Occupation of Smyrna (May 1919)
The Greek Occupation of Smyrna (İzmir'in İşgali) was the Allied-sanctioned landing of Greek troops at Izmir on 15 May 1919, followed by killings of Ottoman Muslims.
Greek Orthodox Church (λληνορθόδοξη Ἐκκλησία)
The Greek Orthodox Church, also known as the Hellēnorthódoxē Ekklēsía, is the Orthodox Christian church of Greek language and tradition, led spiritually by the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.
Greek People's Liberation Army
The Greek People's Liberation Army (Greek: Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός, ELAS) was the military wing of the EAM resistance in Axis-occupied Greece, founded in December 1941.
Greek primordial deities
Greek primordial deities (Protogenoi) are the first-born elemental gods of Greek myth: Chaos, Gaia, Tartaros, Eros, Nyx, Ouranos and Pontos in Hesiod's Theogony; Orphic tradition adds Chronos, Aither and the Cosmic Egg.