Style group gathers related styles into a wider family, such as the sequence running from Romanesque through Gothic to Renaissance. Wikipedia notes that Gothic architecture "is particularly associated with church architecture, but it is also the architecture of many castles, palaces, town halls, guildhalls, universities and houses," spanning several building types under one shared family look. This dimension lets a visitor see the larger movement a single style belongs to.
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Era of Emergence Origin RegionGreece and the Mediterranean 1 Group
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Wikimedia FoundationWikipedia, Ancient Greek architecture, lead section, era
Ancient Greek architecture was made by the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on mainland Greece, the Peloponnese, Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy for a period from about 900 BC until the 1st century AD, with the earliest surviving architectural works dating from around 600 BC.
Wikipedia, Ancient Greek architecture, lead section, region
Ancient Greek architecture was made by the Greeks, or Hellenes, whose culture flourished on mainland Greece, the Peloponnese, Aegean Islands, and in colonies in Anatolia and Italy.
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