what is the origin of Greeks?

Question

When and Where

Answer 1

Adam and Eve--the beginning of time.

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Answer 2

This is like asking : when and where did human species originate.The only indication of your question,to make sense,lies in the realm of linguistcs. So what you are asking is about the origin of Greek language, or, the emergence of Greeks as a linguistic group.The `origin' part is a chi ken and egg question. Besides no determinate date, year, decade, or a century can be sourced to answer the `origin' part.That puts the `when' aspect of your question in some kind of perspective.The time-line involved is a millennium.According to proto-geometricevidence, clay and ceramics with figures and script, Greek language begins from the closing part of the first millennium C.More specifically 9th to 8th century.To answer the `where' part, Greek speaking communities, dialect-wise,gathered on the eastern section of the Mediterranean, from present day Turkey and arching towards modern Greece, inclusive of the islands.Greeks were maritime people and initially there were many dialects and phonemes. But, with travel, they also spoke a lot. For a long period Greeks would interact orally, e.g., Pythagorians.By the time we come to the classical period, 8th to early 6th c. B C, Chtonic became the basic language, among Athenians, for those who ruled, i.e., the aristocracy.

Answer 3

The Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες—"Hellenes") are a nation and ethnic group, who have populated Greece from the 17th century BC up until the present day. Today, they are primarily found in the Greek peninsula of southeastern Europe and Cyprus. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were uniformly distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, Pontus and Constantinople, regions which coincided to a very large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century and the areas of Greek colonization in the ancient world. In the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in 1923, a large-scale population exchange between Greece and Turkey transferred and confined ethnic Greeks almost entirely into the borders of the modern Greek state, that is, in areas where groups of Greek-speaking Indo-Europeans first established themselves about 1500 BC, as well as in Cyprus. Other ethnic Greek populations can be found from Southern Italy to the Caucasus and diaspora communities in a number of other countries. Today, the vast majority of Greeks are at least nominally adherents of Greek

Answer 4

hey are primarily found in the Greek peninsula of southeastern Europe and Cyprus. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were uniformly distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, Pontus and Constantinople, regions which coincided to a very large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century and the areas of Greek colonization in the ancient world. In the aftermath of the Greco-Turkish War (1919-1922) in 1923, a large-scale population exchange between Greece and Turkey transferred and confined ethnic Greeks almost entirely into the borders of the modern Greek state, that is, in areas where groups of Greek-speaking Indo-Europeans first established themselves about 1500 BC, as well as in Cyprus. Other ethnic Greek populations can be found from Southern Italy to the Caucasus and diaspora communities in a number of other countries.

Answer 5

Greek rapist monthly had a whole spread on the history of greeks. It has been around for as long as sexual relations between humanity. Greeks are people who enjoy Greek sex, which is when do it in the butt. It got this name because I guess Greeks are notorious for doing it in the butt. Well, Greeks can be heterosexual or homosexual, because both sexes have butts.

Answer 6

Origin of the Greeks-

NO NATION possesses a history till events are recorded in written documents; and it was not till the epoch known by the name of the First Olympiad, corresponding to the year 776 B.C., that the Greeks began to employ writing as a means for perpetuating the memory of any historical facts. Before that period everything is vague and uncertain; and the exploits of the heroes related by the poets must not be regarded as historical facts.

The PELASGIANS are universally represented as the most ancient inhabitants of Greece. They were spread over the Italian as well as the Grecian peninsula; and the Pelasgic language thus formed the basis of the Latin as well as of the Greek. They were divided into several tribes, of which the Hellenes were probably one: at any rate, this people, who originally dwelt in the south of Thessaly, gradually spread over the rest of Greece. The Pelasgians disappeared before them, or were incorporated with them, and their dialect became the language of Greece. The Hellenes considered themselves the descendants of one common ancestor, Hellen, the son of Deucalion and Pyrrha. To Hellen were ascribed three sons, Dorus, Xuthus, and AEolus. Of these Dorus and AEolus gave their names to the DORIANS and AEOLIANS; and Xuthus; through his two sons Ion and Achaeus, became the forefather of the IONIANS and ACHAEANS. Thus the Greeks accounted for the origin of the four great divisions of their race. The descent of the Hellenes from a common ancestor, Hellen, was a fundamental article in the popular faith. It was a general practice in antiquity to invent fictitious persons for the purpose of explaining names of which the origin was buried in obscurity. It was in this way that Hellen and his sons came into being; but though they never had any real existence, the tales about them may be regarded as the traditional history of the races to whom they gave their names.

The civilization of the Greeks and the development of their language bear all the marks of home growth, and probably were little affected by foreign influence. The traditions, however, of the Greeks would point to a contrary conclusion. It was a general belief among them that the Pelasgians were reclaimed from barbarism by Oriental strangers, who settled in the country and introduced among the rude inhabitants the first elements of civilization. Attica is said to have been indebted for the arts of civilized life to Cecrops, a native of Sais in Egypt. To him is ascribed the foundation of the city of Athens, the institution of marriage, and the introduction of religious rites and ceremonies. Argos, in like manner, is said to have been founded by the Egyptian Danaus, who fled to Greece with his fifty daughters, to escape from the persecution of their suitors, the fifty sons of his brother AEgyptus. The Egyptian stranger was elected king by the natives, and from him the tribe of the Danai derived their name, which Homer frequently uses as a general appellation for the Greeks. Another colony was the one led from Asia by Pelops, from whom the southern peninsula of Greece derived its name of Peloponnesus. Pelops is represented as a Phrygian, and the son of the wealthy king Tantalus. He became king of Mycenae, and the founder of a powerful dynasty, one of the most renowned in the Heroic age of Greece. From him was descended Agamemnon, who led the Grecian host against Troy..

Answer 7

the OLD Greeks !

Answer 8

descended from greek apes

Answer 9

Umm.... Greece?
few thousand years ago?
Greece?

Answer 10

greece