Greek History A-Z

Can you guess these people, places, and things from Greek history starting with each letter of the alphabet?

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Last updated: February 15, 2026

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King who conquered the Persian Empire and spread Greek culture

Alexander the Great

Original name for Istanbul, before Constantinople

Byzantium

King of Greece during World War I

King Constantine I

Religious site famous for its oracle

Delphi

Mathematician known as the "father of geometry"

Euclid

Revolutionary organization to overthrow Ottoman rule, known as Filiki Eteria

Society of Friends

"Weapon" used by the Byzantine army to burn enemy ships

Greek fire

Author of the Illiad

Homer

First leader of modern Greece

Ioannis Kapodistrias

Roman Emperor ruled from Constantinople with his wife Theodora

Justinian

Palace complex and center of M in Crete

Knossos

Treaty that defined modern Greece's borders with Turkey

Treaty of Lausanne

Civilization in Crete from 3000-1400 BC

Minoan Civilization

1827 battle where an allied European fleet destroyed the Ottoman Navy

Battle of Navarino

Mountain where all the gods were

Mount Olympus

27-year war between Athens and Sparta

Peloponnesian War

Ancient four-horse chariot used in chariot racing

Quadriga

Island where one of the Ancient wonders, the Colossus, once stood

Rhodes

Philosopher who taught Aristotle and died by poison

Socrates

Battle between the Spartans and the Persian army at a mountain pass

Thermopylae

Greek realm of the dead, ruled by Hades

Underworld

Powerful republic that conquered parts of Greece after the fall of the Byzantine Empire

Republic of Venice

In Greek mythology, Dionysus was the god of this

Wine

Persian king who launched the Second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC

Xerxes I

Group of people that persecuted and expelled Greeks from Asia Minor and Thrace from 1914-1923

Young Turks

King of the Gods in Greek mythology

Zeus

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