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Greek Project

The Greek Project (Греческий проект) was Catherine II's unrealized plan to expel the Ottomans from Europe and restore a Greek empire under her grandson Constantine.

Greek resettlement of Asia Minor refugees

The Greek resettlement of Asia Minor refugees was a state and League of Nations program that housed and employed 1.2 million Greeks displaced from Turkey after 1922.

Greek Resistance

The Greek Resistance (Εθνική Αντίσταση) was the armed resistance of the Greek people against Axis occupation forces from 1941 to 1944, led by the Communist-backed EAM and its ELAS army.

Greek Revival architecture

Greek Revival architecture, also known as the Greek Revival style or Doric Revival, is an architectural style modeled on ancient Greek temples, dominant in the United States from about 1820 to 1860.

Greek royal family

The Greek royal family, the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg, reigned from 1863 until the 1974 referendum abolished the monarchy; exiled after 1967, its members regained Greek citizenship in 2024 as De Gréce.

Greek salad

Greek salad, called horiatiki ("village salad") in Greece, is a salad of tomato, cucumber, onion, and feta dressed with olive oil and oregano, containing no lettuce.

Greek Salad (2023 TV series)

Greek Salad (Salade grecque) is a 2023 French comedy-drama series by Cédric Klapisch, a sequel to L'Auberge espagnole, following Tom and Mia in Athens over 8 Prime Video episodes.

Greek Shepherd

Greek Shepherd (Ελληνικός Ποιμενικός), also Greek Sheepdog or Hellenikos Poimenikos: a large Greek livestock guardian dog breed from the Rodopi and Pindos mountains, one of three indigenous Greek LGD breeds, used against wolves and bears, not a herder.

Greek Solution (Ελληνική Λύση)

Greek Solution (Ελληνική Λύση, Elliniki Lysi), founded 2016 by Kyriakos Velopoulos, is Greece's far-right populist party: pro-Russian, Eurosceptic, 'Greece, religion, family'; 4.44% in 2023, about 9.5% in the 2024 European election.

Greek Temple at Taras

Greek Temple at Taras (Doric Temple, Temple of Poseidon), Taranto: archaic 6th-century BC Doric sanctuary of the Spartan colony, two surviving 8.47 m columns in Piazza Castello, probably dedicated to a female deity.

Greek theater of Morgantina

The Greek theater of Morgantina is a Hellenistic open-air theater near Aidone in Sicily, built in the mid-third century BCE and used for performances and assemblies.

Greek theater of Taormina

The Greek theater of Taormina (Teatro Antico di Taormina) is an ancient theater in Taormina, Sicily, built by the Greeks in the 3rd century BC and rebuilt by the Romans.

Greek tragedy

Greek tragedy: Athenian 5th-century BCE drama of Dionysian festivals, myth-based plots, three actors, masked chorus of twelve or fifteen, staged with satyr plays at the Great Dionysia.

Greek underworld

The Greek underworld, called Hades (ᾍδης), is the realm of the dead in Greek religion and literature, ruled by Hades and Persephone, evolving from Homer's grey house of shades to a judged afterlife with Elysium, Tartarus, and mystery-cult escape routes.

Greek War of Independence (Ελληνική Επανάσταση του 1821)

Greek War of Independence (Ελληνική Επανάσταση του 1821), the Greek Revolution: 1821–1832 uprising against Ottoman rule launched by the Philiki Etaireia, won through Navarino (1827) and the London Protocol (1830).

Greek water deities

Greek water deities: Poseidon, Oceanus, the Potamoi river gods, and the Nereid, Oceanid, and Naiad water nymphs of Greek myth and cult, from sea kings to local springs.

Greek words for love

Greek words for love: ancient erōs, philia, storgē, agapē and their overlapping classical usage, biblical distribution, the modern C. S. Lewis four-loves scheme, and modern Greek agápi and érotas.

Greek–Bulgarian population exchange

The Greek–Bulgarian population exchange was a voluntary reciprocal emigration of minorities under the 1919 Neuilly convention, covering some 37,000 Greeks in Bulgaria and 150,000 Bulgarians in Greece.

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies

Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, also known as GRBS, is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal on Greek culture and history from the Bronze Age to 1453.

Greeks

The Greeks, also known as the Hellenes (Greek: Ἕλληνες), are an ethnic and national group defined by the Greek language, Orthodox Christianity, and communities of the eastern Mediterranean.

Greeks (finance)

The Greeks, also known as option greeks, are partial derivatives of an option's value with respect to underlying price, time, implied volatility, and interest rates, used by traders to measure and hedge option risk.

Greeks in Turkey

Greeks in Turkey (Rum): the Lausanne-recognized Greek Orthodox minority of Istanbul, Imvros, and Tenedos, remnant of the Anatolian Greeks mostly removed by the 1923 compulsory population exchange.

Greeley (Martian crater)

Greeley crater, a 457-km-wide ancient impact crater in Noachis Terra, Mars, between Argyre and Hellas; named by the IAU in 2015 for planetary geologist Ronald Greeley (1939-2011).

Greeley, Colorado

Greeley, Colorado: Weld County seat founded in 1870 as the Union Colony, a temperance utopian agricultural community by Nathan Meeker and named for Horace Greeley; population about 115,000, home to the University of Northern Colorado and JBS meatpacking.

Green

Green: the spectral color between blue and yellow, historically hard to render because its pigments (malachite, green earth, verdigris, arsenical Scheele's and Emerald greens, viridian, phthalo) were rare, unstable, or toxic.

Green (R.E.M. album)

Green (1988) is R.E.M.'s sixth studio album and first for Warner Bros., produced by Scott Litt. Released on US Election Day, it went double platinum, peaked at No. 12 on the Billboard 200, and featured instrument-swapping and the singles Stand, Orange Crush, and Pop Song 89.

Green (The Bear)

"Green" is the eighth episode of season 4 of the American comedy-drama series The Bear, written by Joanna Calo and Christopher Storer and released on Hulu in 2025.

Green Acres

Green Acres: CBS sitcom (1965-1971, 170 episodes) starring Eddie Albert and Eva Gabor as New Yorkers farming near Hooterville; created by Jay Sommers and Paul Henning, cancelled in CBS's rural purge, known for surreal fourth-wall humor.

Green algae

Green algae: photosynthetic Chlorophyta and streptophyte algae of Viridiplantae with chlorophyll a and b, over a billion years old, and the streptophyte lineage ancestral to all land plants.

Green anaconda

Green anaconda (Eunectes murinus, with the 2024-described northern species E. akayima) is a South American semi-aquatic boa and the world's heaviest snake, up to 227 kg recorded, shorter but far bulkier than the reticulated python.