Hellenization (or Hellenisation) is a term used to describe the spread of Greek culture. Most typically, it is used to describe the spread of Hellenistic civilization during the Hellenistic period, following the conquest of the east by Alexander the Great of Macedon who spread Greek language, culture and religion to the lands he conquered. This article focuses on the cultural aspects of the Hellenistic age for the historical aspects see Hellenistic period. This article focuses on the historical aspects of the Hellenistic age for the cultural aspects see Hellenistic civilisation. Alexander the Great ( or, Mégas Aléxandros; July 20 356 BC June 10 or June 11 323 BC also known as Alexander III of Macedon (el Ἀλέξανδρος Γ' Macedon or Macedonia ( Greek grc Μακεδονία grc-Latn Makedonía) was the name of a kingdom centered in the northern-most The result of Hellenization, elements of Greek origin combined in various forms and degrees with local elements, is known as Hellenism.

Historic usage

The term is used in a number of other ancient historical contexts, starting with the hellenization of the earliest inhabitants of the Greece mainland, the Pelasgians, the Leleges, the Lemnians, the Eteocypriots in Cyprus, Eteocretans and Minoans in Crete, prior to the Classical antiquity period, as well as the Sicels, Elymians, Sicani in Sicily and the Oenotrians, Brutii, Lucani, Messapii and many others in what was about to be known as Magna Graecia. The name Pelasgians (from Ancient Greek grc Πελασγοί Pelasgoí, singular Πελασγός Pelasgós) was used by some ancient Greek The Leleges were one of the aboriginal peoples of southwest Anatolia (compare " Pelasgians quot who were already there when the Indo-European Hellenes The Lemnian language is a language of the 6th century BC spoken on the island of Lemnos. Eteocypriot was a Pre-Indo-European language spoken in Iron Age Cyprus. The Minoan language is a Language of ancient Crete. Its relationship to Greek is unknown and it was spoken before the island's civilization was replaced The Minoan civilization was a Bronze Age civilization which arose on the island of Crete. Crete ( Greek: Κρήτη transliteration: Krētē, modern transliteration Kriti) is the largest of the Greek islands and the Classical antiquity (also the classical era or classical period) is a broad term for a long period of cultural History centered on the Mediterranean The Sicels ( Latin: Siculi; Greek: Σικελοί The Elymians ( Greek Elymoi, Latin Elymi) were an ancient people who inhabited the western part of Sicily during the Bronze The Sicani ( Greek Sikanoi) or Sicanians were one of three ancient peoples of Sicily present at the time of Phoenician and Greek colonization The Oenotrians (a Greek tribe led by Oenotrus) were an ancient Italic people who settled a territory of remarkably large dimensions including the region of Apulia The Bruttii ( Greek:, Italian: Bruzi were an ancient Italic people who inhabited the southern extremity of Italy, from the frontiers of The Lucani ( Lucanians) were an ancient people of Italy who spoke an Oscan language, a member of the Italic languages.

Main article: Hellenistic civilization

During the Hellenistic period, following the death of Alexander the Great, considerable numbers of Assyrians, Jews, Egyptians, Persians, Armenians and a number of other ethnic groups along the Middle East and Central Asia were Hellenized. This article focuses on the cultural aspects of the Hellenistic age for the historical aspects see Hellenistic period. The Assyrians are an Ethnic group whose origins lie in what is today Iraq, Iran, Turkey and Syria. PLEASE TAKE NOTE************ This article is about the contemporary North African ethnic group layout and formatting it should ensure no clashes with the top of the infobox The Armenians (Հայեր Hayer) are a Nation and Ethnic group originating in the Caucasus and in the Armenian Highlands A large The Middle East is a Subcontinent with no clear boundaries often used as a synonym to Near East, in opposition to Far East. Central Asia is a region of Asia from the Caspian Sea in the west to central China in the east and from southern Russia in the north to northern Pakistan in the south The Bactrians, an Iranian ethnic group who lived in Bactria (northern Afghanistan), were hellenized during the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, and soon after various tribes in northwestern regions of the Indian subcontinent (modern Pakistan) during the Indo-Greek Kingdom. The Bactrians were an Indo-European people originally of Bactria, situated in what is now modern northern Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and southern "Bactrian" redirects here For the camel see Bactrian camel. Afghanistan /æfˈgænɪstæn/ officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan ( Pashto: د افغانستان اسلامي جمهوریت, The Gr(aeco-Bactrian Kingdom was the easternmost part of the Hellenistic world covering Bactria and Sogdiana in Central Asia from 250 This article deals with the geophysical region in Asia For geopolitical treatments see South Asia. Pakistan () officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, is a country located in South Asia, Southwest Asia, Middle East and The Indo-Greek Kingdom (or sometimes Graeco-Indian Kingdom) covered various parts of the northwest and northern Indian subcontinent during the last two centuries There also was hellenization of Thracians^[1], Dardanians, Paionians and Illyrians^[2] south of the Jireček Line. "Thracians" also refers to modern inhabitants of Thrace, regardless of ethnicity The Dardani ( Ancient Greek Δαρδάνιοι were a Thraco-Illyrian tribe For the flower genus see Peony. Paionia or Paeonia (Παιονία was in ancient geography the land of the Paeonians Illyrians has come to refer to a broad ill-defined " Indo-European " group of peoples who inhabited the western Balkans ( Illyria, roughly The Jireček Line is an imaginary line through the ancient Balkans that divided the influences of the Latin (in the north and Greek (in the south languages

Hellenization can also refer of the Byzantine Empire from Constantine's founding of Constantinople and the primacy of Greek culture and the Greek language after the emperor Heraclius in the seventh century. Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus (27 February ca. 272 &ndash 22 May 337 commonly known as Constantine I, Constantine the Great, or Saint Constantine Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis, or gr ἡ Πόλις hē Polis, Latin: la CONSTANTINOPOLIS Greek (el ελληνική γλώσσα or simply el ελληνικά — "Hellenic" is an Indo-European language, spoken today by 15-22 million people mainly Heraclius, or Herakleios (Flavius Heraclius Augustus;) (c 575 - February 11, 641) was a Byzantine Emperor, who ruled the East

Modern usage

A disputed modern use is in connection with policies pursuing 'cultural harmonization and education of the linguistic minorities resident within the modern Greek state' (the Hellenic Republic), i. Greece (Ελλάδα transliterated: Elláda, historically, Ellás,) officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία e. the Hellenization of minority groups in modern Greece.

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