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Greeks

#Greek people #IndoEuropean peoples #Ancient peoples #Ethnic groups in Europe

1 What region does Greeks belong to?

2 Where was Alexander Payne born?

3 Who is Elia Kazan's spouse?

4 When did Aristotle Onassis die?

5 What did Michael Dukakis do for a living?

6 [140] About 2,000 Greeks are members of ________ congregations.

7 What is the nationality of Plutarch?

8 Which of the following titles did Maria Menounos have?

9 The Mycenaeans quickly penetrated the ________ and by the 15th century BC had reached Rhodes, Crete, Cyprus, where Teucer is said to have founded the first colony, and the shores of Asia Minor.

10 [89] By Western standards, the term Greeks has traditionally referred to any native speakers of the ________, whether Mycenaean, Byzantine or modern Greek.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Buner reliefs depict scenes of ancient Greeks in India during the 1st century?
  • the military prowess of the Tulunid dynasty of Arab Egypt was due to its multi-ethnic army composed of Turkish people, Sudanese, and Greek soldiers?
  • the Autonomous Republic of Northern Epirus was a short-lived state founded in March 1914 by Greeks living in southern Albania?
  • between 1955 and 1998, under Article 19 of the Greek Citizenship Code which entitled the Greek government to strip non-ethnic Greeks who left the country of their citizenship, 46,638 members of the officially recognized Muslim minority of Greece lost their citizenship?
  • Emmanouil Argyropoulos (pictured), the first Greek aviator to fly over his country, was also the first casualty suffered by Greek military aviation one year later during the Balkan Wars?
  • Zarafa was a giraffe presented to Charles X of France from Mehmet Ali Pasha, the Ottoman Viceroy of Egypt in 1826, to encourage the King of France to end his support for the Greeks in their fight for independence?
  • Greek singer Kostas Martakis' second album Pio Konta was partly recorded and produced in Sweden by the duo Holter/Erixson?
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