Greeks in the United Kingdom

Greeks in the United Kingdom (Greek: Έλληνες στο Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο, romanized: Éllines sto Inoméno Vasíleio), also known as Greek Britons, are British residents and citizens of full or partial Greek heritage, or Greeks who emigrated to and reside in the United Kingdom.

The Mycenaean civilization was an early Greek civilization which flourished during the period between 1600 BC, when Helladic culture in mainland Greece was transformed under influences from Minoan Crete, and 1100 BC, when it perished with the collapse of Bronze-Age civilization in the eastern Mediterranean. Through trading and conquest, Mycenaean civilization spread its influence from Mycenae to many parts of the Mediterranean region and Europe. Mycenaean bronze double axes and other objects (Rillaton Barrow, Pelynt Dagger) dating from the thirteenth century BC have been found in Ireland and in Wessex and Cornwall in England, proving at least indirect Greek contact with Ireland and Great Britain at the time.

Aristotle, in the work On the Universe, mentions the Britannic islands (), two islands which were called Albion (), which is the modern Great Britain, and Ierne (), which is the modern Ireland.

The first known Greek to come to Britain was Pytheas who lived in late 4th and early 3rd centuries BC. He reported its name as () and (), for Britain and the British islands, which became Britannia, it is assumed that its Hellenised version was under Diodorus. It may have been used by some of the local peoples where Pytheas landed to themselves -Pretani.