Pre-Paleolithic Period
Fossils of the earliest pre-human (Ouranopithecus macedoniensis, 9.6–8.7 million years ago), and of the oldest direct ancestor of all humans (Graecopithecus, 7.2 million years ago)

Militarily, Greece itself declined to the point that the Romans conquered the land (168 BC onwards), though Greek culture would in turn conquer Roman life. Although the period of Roman rule in Greece is conventionally dated as starting from the sacking of Corinth by the

The Greeks held out in the Peloponnese until 1460, and the Venetians and Genoese clung to some of the islands, but by the early 16th century all of mainland Greece and most of the Aegean islands were colonized by the Ottoman empire, excluding several port

• History of Crete
• History of Cyprus
• History of the Cyclades
• History of Thessaly

Ancient Greece refers to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Dark Ages to the end of antiquity (c. AD 600). In common usage, it refers to all

Byzantine rule (324–AD 1204)
The division of the empire into East and West and the subsequent collapse of the Western Roman Empire were developments that constantly accentuated the position of the Greeks in the empire and eventually allowed

In the early months of 1821, the Greeks declared their independence, but did not achieve it until 1829. The Great Powers first shared the same view