Hellenization
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This article is about the spread of Greek culture. For the renaming of places in Greece, see Hellenization of place names.
Hellenization (also spelled Hellenisation) or Hellenism[1] is the adoption of Greek culture, religion, language, and identity by non-Greeks. In the ancient period, colonisation often led to the Hellenisation of indigenous peoples; in the Hellenistic period, many of the territories which were conquered by Alexander the Great were Hellenized.