Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word la tour. Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: La Tour, Georges de La Tour(noun) French painter of religious works (1593-1652)
The Greeks or Hellenes (Greek: Î­Î»Î»Î·Î½ÎµÏ [Ëelines]) are an ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus, Albania, Anatolia, Southern Italy, and other regions.They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world.ost Greeks are Christians, belonging to the Greek Orthodox Church. During the first centuries after Jesus Christ, the New Testament was originally written in Koine Greek, which remains the liturgical language of the Greek Orthodox Church, and most of the early Christians and Church Fathers were Greek-speaking.
Between 2000 and 1600 BCE mainland Greece and the Peloponnese were invaded by a new people, the Greeks. They were warrior-herdsmen, looking for new pastures for their herds. These Achaeans were an Indo-European people whom the Hittites called the Ahiyawa. As they came into Greece they ceased their semi-nomadic lifestyle and settled in Thessaly, Boetia, Attica, Argolis and Messenia. Each city was ruled by a king from the warrior/landowning aristocracy, called the wanax. The cities began to trade in the Aegean and eastern Mediterranean. These people are known today as the Mycenaeans, and their culture thrived between 1400 and 1200 BCE. Each city-state had a fortified palace surrounded by massive defense walls. Outside of the large estate of the wanax, farmland was collectively owned. Below the free lower classes, there were slaves.