pn The
Greek speaking world in ancient times, geographically referring not only to modern Greece and southern Balkan peninsula but also to areas of
Hellenic culture that were settled during ancient times by Greeks:
Cyprus, the
Aegean coast of
Ionia, southern Italian peninsula and Sicily (known as
Magna Graecia) and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now
Albania,
Bulgaria,
Egypt,
Libya, southern
France, southern
Spain,
Catalonia,
Georgia,
Romania, and
Ukraine.