Why is Greece named the Hellenic Republic and Hellas?

Question

I'm doing some research on Greece and I can't find a solid reason why Greece has another name. Why does it? What does Hellenic and Hellas mean?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 1

well Hellas is the real name of our country

Hellas (Ελλάς) = Greece and Hellenic (Ελληνικός/Έλληνας) = Greek



this is how we call our country and everything realting with it

Greece is a name given from Latins and later from westerns to us

Greece - Greek comes from the name Greacus

(check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graecus for more info)

but we see it as a pejorative term

We truly prefer Hellas -

Regards



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_Greeks

Answer 2

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Why is Greece named the Hellenic Republic and Hellas?
I'm doing some research on Greece and I can't find a solid reason why Greece has another name. Why does it? What does Hellenic and Hellas mean?

Thanks for the help!

Answer 3

The Hellenic Republic is the full name of Greece. Hellas is the Greek name.

I should know I go to a Greek School

Answer 4

One day, while i was in the hospital (in Hellas/Greece) for some reason , i met an old-man around 90 years old.
We started a small and quick convesation about our country and economy etc, which in his last words before i left, he said ''Remember , Greece is not called Greece, but Hellas! The Turks gave us this name as a nickname (Γρεκός).
The meaning of the word ''Hellas'' is (as he claimed) = the country of light '' (Η χώρα του φωτός)
And i now want to know if this is true!? Does anyone know , or perhapse can help with smthing?

Answer 5

Define Hellenic

Answer 6

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Are you asking about the name change? If so, there really wasn't a name change. In English, we call the nation, "Greece." But the Greeks have always refered to their nation as, "Ελλάδα." The pronunciation of "Ελλάδα" in English is roughly equivalent to "Hellas." And thus, in English, the Greeks are sometimes refered to as the "Hellenes." The "Hellenic Republic" is simply a way of expressing in more approximate English what the Greeks have always called themselves. Hope this helps. Cheers.

Answer 7

Hellas comes from the Albanian word Hyllus, which means star or light. All the story out there about the word hellas is a lie.

Now Hyllus is in Latin form.
Ylli is Albanian word for star or light.
Everything Greeks is Albanian/Illyrian.
Greece is a made up country. In fact is the only country that myths replace facts.
You have been study lies all your life.

Answer 8

(Deutscland not Doichland however).
There is another point on how the name Hellas has come to use.
There is an ancient greek word "sellas" that means strong light (or fire or a shine). So, in ancient years people trying to give the whole development of the ancient Greece in a word, they called their country "Hellas", mispronouncing the word "sellas" as it was a really very early word in the dictionary of greeks. It is found in texts since 1600 BC, so someone can say that we call our country with the same name for over 3500 years.

Answer 9

Hellas is the proper name for my home country.

"Though the words 'Hellenism', 'Hellenic', 'Hellenes', 'Hellas' are less familiar than the words 'Greece' and 'Greek' to the English-speaking public, they have two advantages. They are not misleading; and they are the words which, in the Greek language, the Hellenes themselves used to designate their civilization, their world, and themselves. 'Hellas' seems originally to have been the name of the region round the head of the Maliac Gulf, on the border between Central and Northern Greece, which contained the shrine of Earth and Apollo at Delphi and the shrine of Artemis at Anthela near Thermopylae (the narrow passage between sea and mountain that has been the highway from Central Greece to Northern Greece and thence to the great Eurasian Continent into which Northern Greece merges). 'Hellenes', signifying 'inhabitants of Hellas', presumably acquired its broader meaning, signifying 'members of the Hellenic society', through being used as a corporate name for the association of local peoples, the Amphictyones ('neighbours'), which administered the shrines at Delphi and Thermopylae and organized the Pythian Festival that was connected with them." [Arnold J. Toynbee: Hellenism, The History of a Civilization; Oxford University Press, 1959]

Answer 10

Hellas and Hellenic (the adjective deriving from Hellas) Republic are the names we, Greeks (or Hellenes) call our country.
Just think of how you know Germany: you know the German Republic, but the Germans call themselves "Deutschen" and their government is "die Deutsche Republik". The same with French, who call themselves "Francais" and Spanish who call themselves "Espanoles". See?
If you want to know how the word came up, read the reply provided by "The Lipsiot", accurate as always.