Vad heter Grekland på andra språk?

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Etymologi [redigera]
Greklands officiella namn är "Den hellenska demokratin" (Ellinikí Dhimokratía, Ελληνική Δημοκρατία). Grekerna själva kallar sitt land för Hellas, idag uttalat Ellas, eller i dagligt tal Ellada. Sig själva kallar grekerna för hellener (Ellines, Έλληνες). Ordet grek kommer av det latinska namnet Graecia som ursprungligen avsåg ett område i norra delen av dagens Grekland som beboddes av graierna.[1] På de flesta andra språk har hellener och Hellas istället en historisk innebörd. Se även hellenism.

källa: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grekland

GreekO.E. Crecas (pl.), early Gmc. borrowing from L. Græci "the Hellenes," from Gk. Grakoi. Aristotle, who was the first to use Graikhos as equivalent to Hellenes ("Meteorologica" I.xiv) wrote that it was the name originally used by Illyrians for the Dorians in Epirus, from Graii, native name of the people of Epirus. But a modern theory (put forth by Ger. classical historian Georg Busolt, 1850-1920), derives it from Graikhos "inhabitant of Graia" (lit. "gray"), a town on the coast of Boeotia, which was the name given by the Romans to all Greeks, originally to the Gk. colonists from Graia who helped found Cumae (9c. B.C.E.), the important city in southern Italy where the Latins first encountered Greeks. It was reborrowed in this general sense by the Greeks. Meaning "unintelligible speech, gibberish" is from 1600. Meaning "Greek letter fraternity member" is student slang, 1900. [INDENT]"It was subtle of God to learn Greek when he wished to become an author -- and not to learn it better." [Nietzsche, "Beyond Good and Evil," 1886][/INDENT]Greek gift is from "Æneid," II.49: "timeo Danaos et dona ferentes." The Gmc. languages originally borrowed the word with an initial -k- sound (cf. O.H.G. Chrech, Goth. Kreks), which was probably their initial sound closest to the Latin -g- at the time; the word was later refashioned.
Våra vänner, turkar, kallar vårt land för "Yunanistan" (land of Iones):

Yunan(Ίωνες), the name used by Indians who encountered Alexander the Great and his successors who ruled areas of Central Asia.
Originally from the PersianYauna, itself a transliteration of the Greek Ionia, is the name by which the Greeks are known in the East today.
The term became established in Asia from the Persians, who in contact with the Ionian tribes in western Asia Minor in the 6th century BC, extended the name to all Hellenes.

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