Following the tradition of these Ancient Greek folk etymologies, in the Doric dialect the word originally meant wall, fence from animals and later assembly within the agora.

Following his death and the breakup of his empire, Anatolia was ruled by a series of Hellenistic kingdoms, much of it being controlled by the Greek Seleucid Empire.

Following the Greek War of Independence, most post-Byzantine features were cleared from the site as part of a Hellenizing project that swept the new nation-state.

Following the capture of Kilkis, the Greek army's pace was not quick enough to prevent the destruction of Nigrita, Serres, and Doxato and massacres of non-combatant Greek inhabitants at Demir Hisar and Doxato by the Bulgarian army.

Following an official complaint from Greece on 24 December seeking clarification over comments by former Prime Minister Mesut Yilmaz relating to forest fires in Greece in the mid-1990s, the Greek and Turkish foreign ministers, Stavros Dimas and Ahmet Davutoglu, spoke on Wednesday 28 December.

Following the May 2012 legislative election where the New Democracy party became the largest party in the Hellenic Parliament, Samaras, leader of ND, was asked by Greek President Karolos Papoulias to try to form a government.

* 1940 – World War II: Following the initial Italian invasion, Greek troops counterattack into Italian-occupied Albania and capture Korytsa.

Following years of negotiation, three Great Powers, Russia, the United Kingdom and France had come to agree to the formation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, as stipulated in the Treaty of London.

Following the time of the conquest of the last of the independent Greek city-states and Hellenistic ( post-Alexandrine ) kingdoms, almost all of the world's Greek speakers lived as citizens or subjects of the Roman Empire.

Following the expansion of the Roman Republic ( 509 – 27 BCE ) into several Greek territories between 270 – 240 BCE, Rome encountered Greek tragedy.

Following this takeover, Mehmed sent many Turkish settlers into the area, but the old ethnic Laz, Armenian, and Greek communities remained.

Following the Renaissance in Europe, the humanist aesthetic and the high technical standards of Greek art inspired generations of European artists.

Following Greek mythology, Charon ferries souls across this river to Hell.

Following Vladimir I. Georgiev, who placed Pelasgian as an Indo-European language " between Albanian and Armenian ", Albert Joris Van Windekens ( 1915 — 1989 ) offered rules for an unattested hypothetical Indo-European Pelasgian language, selecting vocabulary for which there was no Greek etymology among the names of places, heroes, animals, plants, garments, artifacts, social organization.

Following the Greek usage, the Romans referred to the Insulae Britannicae in the plural, consisting of Albion ( Great Britain ), Hibernia ( Ireland ), Thule ( possibly Iceland ) and many smaller islands.

Following this, he studied in the Byzantine capital of Constantinople, including the subjects of astronomy, ecclesiastical computus, astrology, medicine, Roman civil law, Greek rhetoric and philosophy, and the use of the horoscope.

Following the mid-20th century discovery of Roman trading posts in Southern India, Foucher's argument was revised in favour of Roman influence, as opposed to Greek.

Following the 1964 elections, Theodorakis became a member of the Greek Parliament, associated with the left-wing party EDA.

Following his release from prison, Verlaine again traveled to England, where he worked for some years as a teacher, teaching French, Latin and Greek and drawing at a grammar school in Stickney in Lincolnshire.

Following the sacrifice the Roman Senate arranged a lectisternium, a ritual of Greek origin that typically involved placing the deity's image on a sumptuous couch, as if he were present and actively participating in the festivities.

Following Plato, the dialogue became a major literary genre in antiquity, and several important works both in Latin and in Greek were written.

Following the overthrow of the Bavarian-born King Otto of Greece in October 1862, the Greek people had rejected Otto's brother and designated successor Leopold, although they still favored a monarchy rather than a republic.

Following the efforts of some figures of the National awakening of Bulgaria ( the most notable among them being Neofit Rilski and Ivan Bogorov ), there had been many attempts to codify a standard Bulgarian language ; however, there was much argument surrounding the choice of norms.

Following the Russian Church in rank is Georgian, followed by Serbian, Romanian, and then Bulgarian Church.

Following his defeat at Klokotnitsa however in 1230, the Empire of Thessalonica became a vassal state of the Second Bulgarian Empire until it was recovered again in 1246, this time by the Nicaean Empire.

Following the elimination of the Bulgarian nobility and clergy by the Turks, Bulgaria entered an age of oppression, intellectual stagnation and misgovernment that would leave its culture shattered and isolated from Europe for the next 500 years.

Following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, the Bulgarian government declared war on the Western Allies.

Following the Chinese model, all of Bulgarian society was to be propagandized and mobilized to meet the planning goals.

Following a failed Bulgarian revolt in 1876, the subsequent Russo-Turkish war ended with the provisional Treaty of San Stefano established a huge new realm of Bulgaria including most of Macedonia and Thrace.

Following the Bulgarian defeat in this war, Western Thrace ( Δυτική Θράκη ), and thus Xanthi, became a part of Greece in 1919 – 1920.

Following 1944, new times began for the Bulgarian heraldry.

Following the breakup of Yugoslavia and the fall of Communism, some attempts were made from Bulgarian officials for joint celebration with the newly established Republic of Macedonia, of the common IMRO heroes, e. g. Delchev, but they all were rejected as politically unacceptable.

Following the new wave of political reform in the Eastern Block after the Prague Spring, in 1969 and against the wishes of the majority of its supporters, Levski was merged with Spartak Sofia and put under the auspice of the Bulgarian interior ministry.

Following Bulgaria's two decisive victories over the Byzantines at Acheloos ( near the present-day city of Pomorie ) and Katasyrtai ( near Constantinople ), the government declared the autonomous Bulgarian Archbishopric as autocephalous and elevated it to the rank of Patriarchate at an ecclesiastical and national council held in 919.

Following Boris I ’ s principle that the sovereignty of the state is inextricably linked to the autocephaly of the Church, the two brothers immediately took steps to restore the Bulgarian Patriarchate.

Following the example of Boris I, Bulgarian Tsar Kaloyan manoeuvred for years between the Patriarch of Constantinople and Pope Innocent III.

Following successful trials and homologation by the state railways, a further 25 locomotives ( the entire fleet, minus five that have been scrapped, two already in Bulgaria and the four locomotives preserved or staying in the UK ) were purchased from Porterbrook by Romic-Ace and sold to the Bulgarian Railway Company ( БЖК / BRC ) in seven batches with the refurbishment being carried out by ETS at Long Marston.

Following two decisive victories over the Byzantines at Achelous ( near the present-day city of Burgas ) and Katasyrtai ( near Constantinople ), the autonomous Bulgarian Archbishopric was proclaimed autocephalous and elevated to the rank of Patriarchate at an ecclesiastical and national council held in 919.

Following is a list of some Bulgarian folk dances, along with their commonly written rhythms and time signatures.

Following a Bulgarian sheet music practice, more complex meters generally appear later in the list.

Following the military reforms of 1907 the territory of the Bulgarian Kingdom was divided into three Army Inspectorates.

Following the quick Bulgarian victory on the Petra-Seliolu-Geckenli line and the capture of Kirk Kilisse ( Kırklareli ), the Ottoman forces retreated in disorder further east and south.