Hellas

Etymology
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Proper noun

 * 1) Greece;  Ancient Greece.

Translations

 * Armenian: Հելլադա
 * Carpathian Rusyn: Ела́да
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:
 * Eastern Min: 希臘
 * Hakka: 希臘
 * Hokkien: 希臘
 * Mandarin:
 * Wu: 希臘
 * Czech: Helada
 * Danish: Hellas (ancient Greece),
 * Esperanto: Helaso
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:, , Ελληνική Δημοκρατία
 * Italian:
 * Latin: Hellas,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:, Grekenland
 * Nynorsk:, Grekenland
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Volapük:

Proper noun

 * 1)  Greece, especially Ancient Greece

Related terms

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Etymology
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Descendants
All borrowings:

Etymology
Directly borrowed from, possibly being influenced by , in 1932 to replace the Danish loanword and German cognate as part of a trend to adopt endonyms as Norway was nation-building during the early 20th century and as a compromise during the early stages of the , with Nynorsk and Samnorsk advocates rejecting the existing name and Grekerland, a calque of Swedish , only working in Bokmål (where  is , being  instead in Nynorsk). In the 1970s, the Norwegian Foreign Ministry attempted to reverse the name change to be more similar to other European countries. Although this movement gained enough momentum to make it to the, it was rejected by a majority of the Council.

Etymology
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