History of Greece
 The word Greek, according to Aristotle, comes from the word Graikoi which was the pre-historic name of the Hellenes.
The people who we call the Greeks, and live in a country we call Greece, actually call themselves Hellenes and live in a country called Hellas. This is their story. This page started as an historical overview for my Greece
Travel Guides and not meant to be a detailed account of Greek history though there are some areas where my interest in a topic enabled me to go into more detail. For those of you who want to know more about Greece and what makes it such a unique and fascinating country this should serve as an introduction. You can click on most photos in my history to see them full size. To return to this index page you can click on the History of Greece link at the top and the bottom of each page.
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Search Matt's Greece Sites
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Matt Barrett's History of Greece Index
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Bronze and Iron Age
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The Golden Age
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Alexander the Great
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The Roman Period
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The Byzantine Period
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The Turkish Period
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Revolution of 1821
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Venizelos/Smyrna
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World War Two
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Lest We Forget
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Civil War
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Post-War
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The Junta
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Rebellion
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Newest Democracy
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Papandreou-Karamanlis
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Final
Words
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Greek Politics
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Biographies
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November 17 Terrorism
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For a list of books I used to research this site and many more books about Greek history and culture as well as literature, cooking and travel see www.greektravel.com/books
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More History from Matt's Greece Travel Guides
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Historical
Prints of Early 20th Century Athens
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Rembetika
and Greek Popular Music
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Greece in the Sixties
Photo Album
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Greek
Festivals and Holidays
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A
Short History of the Jews in Greece
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The
Acropolis of Athens
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The
Elgin Marbles
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Was
Columbus Greek?
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Karaghiosi
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Travel Links
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Unlike a book where mistakes stay where they are until they are changed in the next printing or accepted as truth for the sake of convenience or indifference, a web-site can be changed fairly easily. So if you find events that did not happen the way I wrote them, or did not happen at all, or something important that I have missed then I would love to hear from you. I have tried to be as objective as possible however it is difficult not to see things through one's own prejudices. I imagine the left will find me too conservative, the right will find me too radical and the intellectuals will find me just plain dumb. I would love to hear from all of you. But keep it nice. Take a deep breath and write in a calm and sensible way since I tend not to read ravings and e-mails that begin with expletives.
Matt Barrett: matt@greecetravel.com
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