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- image_desc=Germanos blessing the flag at Agia Lavra| (1821–1829), also commonly known as the Greek Revolution was a successful ...702 bytes (104 words) - 21:41, 12 July 2023
- image_desc=A boy on the pommel horse| text=Gymnastics is a sport involving the performance of sequences ...649 bytes (86 words) - 00:14, 30 May 2023
- early Greek poet traditionally credited with the composition of the epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. Throughout antiquity and subsequent ...761 bytes (114 words) - 16:46, 14 November 2021
- text=The term Greek mythology refers to the collection of tales belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their pantheon of gods as well as ...691 bytes (110 words) - 21:31, 12 July 2023
- orator of ancient Athens. His orations constitute the last significant expression of Athenian intellectual prowess and provide a thorough insight into ...810 bytes (125 words) - 16:30, 17 June 2023
- The Shahnameh is an epic poem that relates the story of Persian (Iranian) heritage from the around the 10th century. It is part mythology that ...1 KB (171 words) - 23:57, 27 March 2023
- This article is part of the series on: History of Greece ... |style="text-align: center;" | The Hellenic Republic ...3 KB (344 words) - 22:05, 3 June 2021
- The chromatic scale is the scale that contains all twelve pitches ... All the other scales in traditional Western music are subsets of this ...5 KB (783 words) - 21:50, 10 December 2023
- The Greek conquests of India took place in the years before the Common ... (today's Pakistan). They governed the region until 316 B.C.E. The ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 15:30, 28 January 2023
- In Greek mythology, Uranus is the personification of the sky and the ... The theonym "Uranus" is the Latinized form of Ouranos ( ...9 KB (1,482 words) - 13:41, 3 May 2023
- Most of Greece was part of the Ottoman Empire from the fourteenth ... Orthodox communities, including ethnic Greeks. The Patriarch controlled the ...23 KB (3,403 words) - 05:56, 18 November 2022
- long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins ... The foundations of the modern world derive from the Classic Age as ...12 KB (1,804 words) - 10:51, 19 December 2023
- for heating, baking, or drying. Over the course of history, various ... By 3200 B.C.E., settlements across the Indus Valley Civilization had ...11 KB (1,627 words) - 05:59, 18 November 2022
- Krónos), also called Cronos or Kronos, was the leader of the first generation ... In later Roman times, Cronus was identified with the Roman deity Saturn. ...12 KB (1,860 words) - 20:30, 3 June 2020
- The word axiom comes from the Greek word or that which is considered self-evident. The word comes from αξιοειν ...16 KB (2,424 words) - 07:20, 23 August 2023
- The Sunga Empire (or Shunga Empire) is a Magadha dynasty that controlled ... The beginning of larger, centralized polities in India was largely ...15 KB (2,296 words) - 23:32, 26 February 2023
- Darius the Great (Darayawush I) (ca. 549 B.C.E. – 485/486 B.C.E ... and although he invaded Greece, he promoted the idea that the Greeks and Persians ...12 KB (1,863 words) - 22:19, 25 January 2024
- ancient Greek colony in present-day Libya, the oldest and most important ... Cyrene became one of the great intellectual centers of the classical ...13 KB (1,919 words) - 18:50, 12 May 2020
- speakers. Its equivalent in Sanskrit is the word "Yavana". ... Several references to the Yonas are found in ancient Indian documents ...21 KB (3,106 words) - 16:58, 4 June 2023
- 1633) was an Italian composer and singer of the transitional period between ... a singer. He subsequently began to work in the Medici court, first as a tenor ...4 KB (584 words) - 14:05, 2 April 2008
