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 ==History==
-Effective family research requires some understanding of the historical events that may have affected your family and the records about them. Learning about wars, governments, laws, migrations, and religious trends may help you understand political boundaries, family movements, and settlement patterns. These events may have led to the creation of records such as land and military documents that mention your family.
+Greece is considered the cradle of Western civilisation, being the birthplace of democracy, Western philosophy, Western literature, historiography, political science, major scientific and mathematical principles, and Western drama, as well as the Olympic Games. From the eighth century BC, the Greeks were organised into various independent city-states, known as poleis, which spanned the entire Mediterranean region and the Black Sea.
-The eastern Mediterranean is called one of the cradles of civilization. From 3000–2000 B.C. a Minoan civilization flourished on the island of Crete. From 1400–1100 B.C. the Myceans established kingdoms in Peloponnesus. Following that was a period of strong city-states. A fusion of the Greek and Persian cultures under Alexander the Great created the Hellenistic civilization. Some subsequent key dates and events in the history of Greece are as follows:
+Greece was annexed by Rome in the second century BC, becoming an integral part of the Roman Empire and its successor, the Byzantine Empire, wherein Greek language and culture were dominant. Rooted in the first century A.D., the Greek Orthodox Church helped shape modern Greek identity and transmitted Greek traditions to the wider Orthodox World. Falling under Ottoman dominion in the mid-15th century, the modern nation state of Greece emerged in 1830 following a war of independence.
+The sovereign state of Greece is a unitary parliamentary republic and developed country with an advanced high-income economy, a high quality of life, and a very high standard of living. It is the largest economy in the Balkans, where it is an important regional investor.
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+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greece]
 ==Timeline==
-'''B.C. 146:''' Rome conquered Greece
+- Constantinople fell to the Turks and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire<br>
+- Greek war of independence against Ottoman rule began<br>
-'''A.D. 285:''' Rome divided with two capitals one in Rome and one in Byzantium (Greek city later renamed Constantinople)
+- Greek independence achieved. Kingdom of Greece included central Greece and Euboea, Peloponnesus, and the Cyclades Islands<br>
+-  Ionian Islands ceded to Greece by Great Britain<br>
-'''1453:''' Constantinople fell to the Turks and became the capital of the Ottoman Empire
+- Thessaly and part of Epirus ceded to Greece by Turkey<br>
+-  Crete, Macedonia, and the Aegean Islands, and the rest of Epirus ceded to Greece by Turkey<br>
-'''1821:''' Greek war of independence against Ottoman rule began
+-  Western Thrace ceded to Greece by Bulgaria<br>
+- Eastern Thrace and part of Asia Minor granted to Greece<br>
-'''1827:''' Greek independence achieved. Kingdom of Greece included central Greece and Euboea, Peloponnesus, and the Cyclades Islands
+- Eastern Thrace and part of Asia Minor returned to Turkey<br>
+-1949 -  Greek Civil War<br>
-'''1832:''' Monarchy established over Greece
+- Dodecanese Islands ceded to Greece by Italy<br>
+- Monarchy abolished; Greece declared a republic<br>
-'''1864:''' Ionian Islands ceded to Greece by Great Britain
+- Greece became tenth member of the European Community<br>
-'''1881:''' Thessaly and part of Epirus ceded to Greece by Turkey
-'''1913:''' Crete, Macedonia, and the Aegean Islands, and the rest of Epirus ceded to Greece by Turkey
-'''1918:''' Western Thrace ceded to Greece by Bulgaria
-'''1920:''' Eastern Thrace and part of Asia Minor granted to Greece
-'''1923:''' Eastern Thrace and part of Asia Minor returned to Turkey
-'''1946-1949:''' Greek Civil War
-'''1947''' Dodecanese Islands ceded to Greece by Italy
-'''1973:''' Monarchy abolished; Greece declared a republic
-'''1981:''' Greece became tenth member of the European Community
-You can easily find general histories for Greece at local public libraries or in major research libraries.
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