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hellas
Hellas (name) means Greece, or more specifically, Ancient Greece.
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Greece, or more specifically, Ancient Greece.
"Modern Greece would not be Byzantium reborn. Rather, it was an imagined nation conjured up from ancient Hellas."
— Sean McMeekin, The Place that Launched a Thousand Ships (1999)
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Etymology
A learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”); it is a doublet of Ellada.
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"hellas" (name) means greece, or more specifically, Ancient Greece.
