Yunanistan sounds made up
Sounds like something an anti-Hui racist visiting Dali would say
It sounds derived/corrupted from Ionian.
bulgaristan sırbistan hırvatistan macaristan
Sounds like a name for china
Yeah, every word is made up. Looks like this one is made up “from lonia, the ancient region (western Asia Minor) occupied by the lonian people” as it says in the graphic as well as the suffix “stan”, which you probably know from some other countries and “is Persian and Urdu for “place of” or “where one stands”” according to dictionary.com.
Greeks living in current western Turkey were called Ionians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ionians
They were mostly athenean settlers, which is why when Persia conquered them, they asked Athens for help. Athens helped them but the ionian revolt failed and Persia was super pissed. The persian emperor had his servant reminding him daily to “remember the athenians”.
This is the main reason behind the persian invasion of mainland Greece. The persians burnt Athens to the ground, which eventually led to Alexander the OK burning Persepolis(Persian Empire’s Capital) to the ground(a couple centuries later).
Since turks came from the East, Ionians were kinda the first greeks they met, so they decided that all greeks are Ionians(Yunans). Or other non greeks in the East were already calling greeks “yunans” and turks just adopted that terminology too. Especially since that term had been mostly depreciated by the time the turks arrived to the neighbourhood.
I think the Germanic influence of adding land at the end should have been a different color. It’s still based in Latin, but still a significant difference imho.
I wonder if there’s a varangian connection with Norway’s use of Hellas?
Apparently they changed it just to spite the Danes.
Love the blue description just saying “???” lmao how the fuck did these people come to that name, nobody knows
Also I love how seemingly around the costal lines people use the same name/the op doesn’t have any idea where the name came from
I love the few regions that probably translate to “those fuckers” over some beef that began in prehistory. “Wise, huh? You wise guys can suck Alydzej njutz.”
Hella
Option that philosophy was founded there. Where was it and why the distinction between the two.
Plato and Socrates were Greek but the Greek culture was spread around. Ex Archimedes was from Sicily.
Most of Sicily was a greek and Syracuse was a greek colony. In fact Archimedes helped defend it against the romans. Most of southern Italy was greek, before Rome became big(and conquered other italians, greeks and carthaginians).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Graecia
And even after the romans conquered “everything”, greek culture was still dominant since the romans were greekaboos(and greek culture was everywhere because of Alexander the OK).
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Lmao
Brief search suggests Alydzej is Circassian name for Greece and may come from ‘ellada’
