Move the slider to any year: every polity recorded for that year is drawn. Greek states are gold, the other powers that ruled Greek lands in the current chapter are green, and everything else is grey; 37 chapters carry the story. Borders change only where the dataset records a change, and they fade rather than morph between dated polygons. The slider is stretched so that the dense modern centuries get more room than the long ancient ones. Hover a territory for its name and dates; click it to open its Wikipedia article.

Boundaries are approximate reconstructions, and dates before 776 BCE are approximate. The dataset has no Greek polygon before about 1450 BCE, so the map starts with Minoan Crete and Mycenaean Greece. The hundreds of city-states of the archaic and classical ages are drawn as one “Greek city-states” layer, the Delian League is not a separate territory, and Greece in 1941–1944 is shown under the occupying powers. The Greek state from 1822 to 1940 appears as one polity, labelled “Greece (Greek State / Kingdom of Greece)”. The dashed line is modern Greece, for orientation only.