Hellenic

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Hellenic may refer to:

• the Hellenic Republic (the modern Greek state).
• the Hellenes, itself a term for either ancient or modern Greeks.
• anything related to Greece in general or Ancient Greece in particular.
• the Hellenic branch of Indoeuropean in which the Greek language belongs.
• the Hellenic plate, a minor plate under Greece, Italy and Turkey.

[edit] See also

[edit] Hellenic topics

• Greek (name): This includes an extensive discussion of the historical usages of the term Hellene.
• Category:Hellenic languages and dialects
• Category:Hellenic scripts

[edit] Similar-sounding periods in Greek history

• Helladic period: The Bronze Age period of mainland Greece spanning c.2800 - 1100 B.C. and including various cultures and languages.
• Hellenistic civilization refers to the spreading of Greek culture over the non-Greek peoples that were conquered by Alexander the Great.
• Hellenistic Greece refers to the period between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the annexation of the Greek peninsula and islands by Rome in 146 BC.