The semicolon is the punctuation mark. The semicolon was first introduced by the Italian printer Ald Manucius, who used it to separate opposing words as well as independent parts of sentences. Since then, the semicolon (not only for this purpose) has become widely used in the usual writing of different peoples.
Semicolon in europe
In Europe, the semicolon was first introduced at the end of the 14th century by the Italian publisher and typographer Ald Manutius, who lived and worked in Venice.
This man was engaged in the publication of the works of ancient (mainly Greek) scholars and philosophers. Before Manucius, Europe wrote texts without any division into semantic parts (not only not using the usual dots or commas, but often not even putting spaces between words). Therefore, in order to facilitate the perception of the books he published, Ald Manutius needed to develop a punctuation system (which is still used in most languages of the world).
In particular, a semicolon was developed. The new sign was intended to separate words that are opposite in meaning.
After several centuries, the semicolon began to be used throughout Europe, but with the usual meaning - the separation of sentences with a complex composition. An exception here was the Greek (respectively, Church Slavonic) language, in which the semicolon is still used as a question mark.
