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Hellas

name

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Ἑλλάς (Hellás, “Greece”). Doublet of Ellada.

  1. learned borrowing from Ἑλλάς

Definitions

  1. Greece

    Greece; (specifically) Ancient Greece.

    • Modern Greece would not be Byzantium reborn. Rather, it was an imagined nation conjured up from ancient Hellas.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for Hellas. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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