Greece

The Empire of Rome, spoke primarily Greek in the major trading cities, because of the colonization of the Pheonicians (Greeks) many of Europe's Major cities were Greek Speaking. Barcelona, Lisbon, Marseillies, Paris, Rome, Napels, Venice, Athens, and Alexandria all had large Greek Speaking communities because it was the language of trade since the best ships and traders were Greeks.

After the death of Julius Caesar the the conversion of Rome from a Rpublic to an Empire, Augustus ordered the nation split to appease the growing battle in Rome for him or his competitor. The two then took their stance, Agustus gaining the West including Rome and the Antony gaining the East including wheat wealthy Egypt, Greece, and Turkey. The two regions were still one empire but under two differant Kings.

Antony was still pissed about not getting the biggest and best city of Rome, so he stopped the production of wheat and tansporting of it to Rome forcing the city to starve. Many claim this was the idea of Cleopatra VII his new bride. Eventually Augustus invaded Egypt and dethroned Marc Antony, both him and Cleopatra committed suicide. Originally Marc Antony killed himself by being tricked by Cleopatra, but Cleopatra killed herself days later for the guilt and honor of being the last of the Egyptian pharohs. It is rumored her son Caesarian (it was the first recorded C-Section) was killed by Augustus to completely wipe out the bloodline

Hundreds of years later, as the ROman Empire fell, Constantine split the nation into two again. By 356 AD Latin was predominantly spoken in the west, greek in the east. The capital of the Roman Empire moved from Rome which was sacked days later by barbarians, to its new site in modern dayTurkey but then Greece, Istanbul. Originally the city that stood was an ancient Greek city of Byzantium and Constantine rebuilt it and renamed it Constantinople. "City of COnstantine" Years later the West empire fell, barbarians destroyed the empire and the provinces separated into small isolated groups each influenced by other tribes. Gual was invaded by the Franks and language changed to a language we know as French. Spain and Portugal were invaded by the Goths and brought a Spanish/Portuguese dialect, and the Saxons and Normons invaded northern France and England giving us English. Italy remained mainly latin, with little new influenes but the cities separated and built up arms such as Naples, Venice, Milan, or Vatican. The East remained in tact for many more centuries known as the Byzantine Empire, the empire was the first Orthodox christian empire, comprising of the ancient eastern Roman Empire. By 1040 the Orthodox Church reclaimed much of Northern Italy, Eastern Europe, Southern Russia, Northern Africa and the Middle East under its domain.

Crusaders from the west and east left the empire struggling for money, especially after the loss of the Holy Land and the wealth brought on by the pilgrims to Jerusalem. In 1421, the region fell to the Ottoman Turks. After four hundred years of Turkish rule, the region was split up by Greek, Russian, English, and Austrian forces giving us the local geography today. COnstantinople was changed to Istanbul in 1919 after World War 1.

The Septuagint (from the Latin septuaginta, "seventy") is a translation of the Hebrew Bible and some related texts into Koine Greek.

In Hebrew it is known as the תרגום השבעים ("Translation of the 70").

Greece uses the Euro (symbol '€'), and has done since the start of the Euro in 2002.

In the Greek alphabet the Euro is known as 'ευρώ'. On Euro banknotes then name is written in capitals as "ΕΥΡΩ". The subdivision (the cent), is known as ''λεπτά", pronounced "leptá".