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Greek colonisation This project is a part of: Geni World History Timeline and Ancient Greece and other related Geni projects/portals of States and areas around World and regions, where all Greek tribes lived and where existed a trace about them. En , Sh 16em>photo: The Parthenon - an enduring symbol of ancient Greece and the Athenian democracy. It is regarded as one of the world's greatest ...
Archon is a Greek word that means "ruler", frequently used as the title of a specific public office. It is the masculine present participle of the verb stem αρχ-, meaning "to be first, to rule", derived from the same root as words such as monarch and hierarchy. In the early literary period of ancient Greece the chief magistrates of various Greek city states were called archontes .[1] The term ...