Greek Muslims all Greek dialects spoken in Turkey, a term akin to "Romeyka" derived from the word "ρωμαίικα" or Roman with Byzantine origins. Current day Greeks refer to their language as "ελληνικά" or Greek, an appellation that replaced the previous term "Romeiika" during the early nineteenth century. In Turkey standard modern Greek is referred to as "Yunanca", whereas the ancient Greek language is called "Eski Yunanca" or "Grekçe". According to Heath W. Lowry's great work about Ottoman tax books ("Tahrir Defteri") with Halil İnalcık, it is claimed that most "Turks" of Trebizond and the Pontic Alps region in northeastern Anatolia are of
Ancient Greek art of ancient Greece was painted colourfully. This aspect of Greek stonework is described as polychrome (from Greek "πολυχρωμία", "πολύ" = many and "χρώμα" = colour). Due to intensive weathering, polychromy on sculpture and architecture has substantially or totally faded in most cases. Although the word "polychrome" is created from the combining of two Greek words, it was not used in ancient Greece. The term was coined in the early nineteenth century by Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy. Painting was also used to enhance the visual aspects of architecture. Certain parts of the superstructure of Greek temples were habitually painted since