History of Greece series
Aegean Civilization	before 1600 BC
Mycenaean Greece	ca. 1600–1200 BC
Greek Dark Ages	ca. 1200–800 BC
Ancient Greece	776–323 BC
Hellenistic Greece	323 BC–146 BC
Roman and Byzantine Greece	146 BC–1453 AD
Ottoman Greece	1453–1832
Modern Greece	after 1832

The History of Greece extends back to the arrival of the Greeks in Europe some time before 1500 BC, even though there has only been an independent state called Greece since 1821. Follow the links in this table to articles on the various periods of Greek history.

The history of the Greeks, however, extends far beyond the current borders of Greece. As early as the 7th century BC the Greeks were colonising parts of what are now Turkey, Cyprus, Italy and Libya. The conquests of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC established Greek rule over Anatolia, Egypt, Syria and Mesopotamia. As parts of the Byzantine Empire, these areas and others were part of the Greek world for many centuries. By the 15th century, however, nearly all the Greeks were living under the rule of the Ottoman Empire.

These articles therefore cover both the history of Greece and the history of the Greeks. It was only in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the establishment of a Greek state and the expulsion of the Greeks from Turkey in the 1920s, that these two histories have been reunited within one territory.

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