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Appointer. Hereditary. Pretender (s) Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece. The royal coat of arms of Greece under the Glücksburg dynasty, created after the restoration of King George II to the throne in 1935. The Kingdom of Greece was ruled by the House of Wittelsbach from 1832 to 1862 and by the House of Glücksburg from 1863 to 1924 and, after ...
He was born on 12 December 1792 in Constantinople, the capital of the Ottoman Empire, as the eldest of five brothers (the others being Demetrios, Nicholas, Georgios and Grigorios). [1] His father Constantine Ypsilantis and grandfather Alexander were active in the Ottoman administration and highly educated, each with their own share of service ...
Philip II of Macedon (Greek: Φίλιππος Philippos; 382 BC – 21 October 336 BC) was the king of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia from 359 BC until his death in 336 BC. He was a member of the Argead dynasty , founders of the ancient kingdom, and the father of Alexander the Great .
Alexander was a native of Aphrodisias in Caria (present-day Turkey) [1] and came to Athens towards the end of the 2nd century. He was a student of the two Stoic, [2] or possibly Peripatetic, philosophers Sosigenes [3] and Herminus, [4] and perhaps of Aristotle of Mytilene. [5] At Athens he became head of the Peripatetic school and lectured on ...
The Greco-Persian Wars (also often called the Persian Wars) were a series of conflicts between the Achaemenid Empire and Greek city-states that started in 499 BC [i] and lasted until 449 BC. The collision between the fractious political world of the Greeks and the enormous empire of the Persians began when Cyrus the Great conquered the Greek ...
Alexander ( Ancient Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος) was Tyrant or Despot of Pherae in Thessaly, ruling from 369 to c. 356 BC. [1] Following the assassination of Jason, the tyrant of Pherae and Tagus of Thessaly, in 370 BC, his brother Polyphron ruled for a year, but he was then poisoned by Alexander who assumed power himself.
Articles relating to Alexander of Greece (1893-1920, reigned 1917-1920) and his reign. Pages in category "Alexander of Greece" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
