• Greek names are the personal names among people of Greek language and culture, generally consisting of a given name and a family name. Ancient Greeks...
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    other symbols. The Greeks (Greek: Έλληνες) have been identified by many ethnonyms. The most common native ethnonym is Hellen (Ancient Greek: Ἕλλην), pl. Hellenes...
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  • The name of Greece differs in Greek compared with the names used for the country in other languages and cultures, just like the names of the Greeks. The...
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  • Greek Cypriots may bear common Greek surnames, but there are some which are markedly Cypriot; there are some names which indicate place of birth or origin...
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  • Retrieved 8 May 2018. Greek name days (in English) for Google Calendar Greek name days (in Greek) for Google Calendar Greek name days Greek Namedays...
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  • whose Greek name are on record; they are thus an important resource for any general study of naming, as well as for the study of ancient Greece itself...
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  • Greek Muslims, and those outside Greece who are Greek-speaking or ethnic Greek Places whose official names include a Greek form. Places whose names originate...
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    names with revived names rooted in Classical Greece – that is, any name deemed foreign, divisive against Greek unity, or considered to be "bad Greek"...
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  • were adapted into Latin, some via Greek. Such names include Jesus (from Greek Ιησους Iēsous) and Maria (from Greek Μαριαμ Mariam, originally from Hebrew...
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  • other divine and semi-divine figures from ancient Greek mythology and ancient Greek religion. The Greeks created images of their deities for many purposes...
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  • The Greek alphabet has been used to write the Greek language since the late 9th or early 8th century BC. It is derived from the earlier Phoenician alphabet...
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  • This is a list of mountain tops and ranges in Greece and around the world that have a Greek name....
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  • translated as "Holy" or "Saint" in English forms of Greek placenames. Traditional English renderings of Greek names originated from Roman systems established in...
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  • O-Yama—Japanese name for Satan Pan—Greek god of lust, later relegated to devildom Pluto—Greek god of the underworld Proserpine—Greek queen of the underworld...
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  • Nephele. The name may be a cognate with Hellas (Greek: Ἑλλάς), the Greek name for Greece, which is said to have originally been the name of the region...
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    both a given name and a surname. It comes from the Greek name Sebastianos (Σεβαστιανός) meaning "from Sebastia" (Σεβάστεια), which was the name of the city...
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    others) is a given name that comes from Damianus, which is the latinisation of the Greek name Δαμιανός (Damianos), derived from the Greek word δαμάζω (damazō)...
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  • In Greek and Roman mythology, the primordial deities are the first generation of gods and goddesses. These deities represented the fundamental forces...
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    This list of Latin and Greek words commonly used in systematic names is intended to help those unfamiliar with classical languages to understand and remember...
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    (Simon). This name appears in Greek mythology as one of the Telchines. In Greek means "flat-nosed". Συμεών is the Hellenization of the name found in the...
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    other parts of Northern Greece. The Tsakonian language, a distinct Greek language deriving from Doric Greek instead of Koine Greek, is still spoken in villages...
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    names refer to the personal names used by the Copts, the indigenous Christian inhabitants of Egypt. They reflect the intersection of Egyptian, Greek,...
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  • by their respective names in their native languages, or with the closest pronunciation in Greek. Turkey formerly had a large Greek-speaking population...
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    most ethnic Greeks live within the borders of the modern Greek state or in Cyprus. The Greek genocide and population exchange between Greece and Turkey...
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    during the Hellenistic period. It is derived from "basileus" (Greek: βασιλεύς), a Greek word of pre-Hellenic origin, meaning "king", from which words...
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  • Elder lists the "Tyrcae" among the people of the same area. The Greek name, Tourkia (Greek: Τουρκία) was used by the Byzantine emperor and scholar Constantine...
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    Nicholas (redirect from Nicholas (name))
    Nicholas is a male name, the Anglophone version of an ancient Greek name in use since antiquity, and cognate with the modern Greek Νικόλαος, Nikolaos...
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    a masculine given name. It comes from the Ancient Greek name Θεόδωρος (Theódoros), meaning "gift of God(s)" (from the Ancient Greek words θεός, (theós)...
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  • Bethany (Greek: Βηθανία (Bethania), which is probably of Aramaic or Hebrew origin, meaning “House of Affliction" is a feminine given name derived from...
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  • and Dutch form of Iohannes, the Latin form of the Greek name Iōánnēs (Ἰωάννης), from the Hebrew name Yochanan (יוֹחָנָן‎), itself derived from the extended...
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