Hellenic

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Her Hellenic identity is unsurprising, as there was an influx of Greeks after Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

The broader region is crisscrossed by active fault lines created as the African Plate presses northeastward against the Hellenic Plate.

From Science Daily • Feb. 17, 2026

Vasilis Vathrakogiannis, a spokesperson for the Hellenic Fire Service, told the BBC the alarm was raised by a friend of the three men after they failed to return at the expected time.

From BBC • Dec. 27, 2025

The Hellenic Olympic Committee has hit out at criticism of the sponsorship of the historic Panathenaic Stadium, site of the first modern Games in 1896, as "petty" politics that "undermines" its work.

From Barron's • Dec. 18, 2025

Bunny, through no impulse toward Hellenic purity but simply out of mean-spiritedness, championed this view.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt