Greek colonies and communities have been historically established on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea and Black Sea, but the Greek people have always been centered around the Aegean and Ionian seas, where the Greek language has been spoken since the Bronze Age. Until the early 20th century, Greeks were distributed between the Greek peninsula, the western coast of Asia Minor, the Black Sea coast, Cappadocia in central Anatolia, Egypt, the Balkans, Cyprus, and Constantinople. Many of these regions coincided to a large extent with the borders of the Byzantine Empire of the late 11th century and the Eastern Mediterranean areas of ancient Greek colonization. The cultural centers of the Greeks have included Athens, Thessalonica, Alexandria, Smyrna, and Constantinople at various periods. 

The evolution of Proto-Greek should be considered within the context of an early Paleo-Balkan sprachbund that makes it difficult to delineate exact boundaries between individual languages. The characteristically Greek representation of word-initial laryngeals by prothetic vowels is shared, for one, by the Armenian language, which also seems to share some other phonological and morphological peculiarities of Greek; this has led some linguists to propose a hypothetical closer relationship between Greek and Armenian, although evidence remains scant. QUESTIONS:

Q1:
1. Where were the Greek colonies gathered?
2. Where did the Greek community live?
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Q2:
1. What empire during the 11th century coincided with the Greeks?
2. Which 11th century empire had a link to the Greeks?
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Q3:
1. What was one place containing the Greek community?
2. What was one location with Greek colonies?
3. 
Q4:
1. What was one place containing the Greek community, in addition to the Greek peninsula?
2. What was one location with Greek colonies, other than the Greek peninsula?
3. 
Q5:
1. Is America a region in which Greek colonies were distributed?
2. Could settlements of Greeks be found across America?
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Q6:
1. Did the regions with Greek colonies coincide with anything?
2. Did the places where Greeks settled brush up against something in particular?
3. 
Q7:
1. Is Washington a center of Greek culture?
2. Is there a lot of Greek culture in Washington?
3. 
Q8:
1. What is one center of Greek culture?
2. What is one place with a lot of Greek culture?
3. 
Q9:
1. Are there centers of Greek culture outside of Athens?
2. Do hotspots of Greek traditions exist outside of Athens?
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Q10:
1. What is one center of Greek culture?
2. What is one place with a lot of Greek culture?
3. 
Q11:
1. Can much Greek culture be found in Columbus?
2. Is Columbus filled with Greek culture?
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Q12:
1. Is Constantinople a Greek cultural center?
2. Is Greek culture highly present in Constantinople?
3. 
Q13:
1. Are there prothetic vowels in the Greek language?
2. Are prothetic vowels an aspect of Greek?
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Q14:
1. What other language is Greek thought to be similar to?
2. Which tongue is believed to share roots with Greek?
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Q15:
1. Is there clear evidence for the relationship between Greek and Armenian?
2. Is the relationship between Greek and Aremnian languages sharply defined?
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