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Hellenistic Greece
During the
Hellenistic period
the importance of Greece proper within the Greek-speaking world declined sharply. The great centers of
Hellenistic culture
were
Alexandria
and
Antioch
, capitals of
Ptolemaic Egypt
and
Seleucid Syria
respectively. Cities such as
Pergamon
,
Ephesus
,
Rhodes
and
Seleucia
were also important, and increasing urbanization of the Eastern Mediterranean was characteristic of the time.
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