(Redirected from List of traditional Greek place names)
This is a 'list of Greek place names'. That is, a list of the
names of places as they exist in the
Greek language. This list includes:
★ Places involved in the history of
Greek culture, including but not limited to:
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★ Historic Greek regions, including but not limited to:
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Ancient Greece, including
colonies and contacted peoples
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Hellenistic world, including successor states and contacted peoples
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Roman Empire and
Byzantine Empire, including successor states
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Ottoman Empire, including successor states
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Septinsular Republic
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★ Modern
Greece and
Cyprus, and also what remains of
treaty Greek minorities in
Turkey
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★ Places that have or had important Greek-speaking or ethnic Greek minorities or
exile communities
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★ Places of concern to Greek culture, religion or tradition, including but not limited to:
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Greek mythology
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★ Greek
Jews, including
Romaniotes and exiled
Sephardim
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Greco-Buddhism
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Christianity until the
Great Schism, and afterwards the
Eastern Orthodox Church,
Eastern Rite, etc.
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Greek Muslims, including
Islam in Greece, and those outside Greece who are Greek-speaking or ethnic Greek
★ Places whose
official names include a Greek form.
★ Places whose names originate from the Greek language, even if they were never involved in Greek history or culture.
Αlthough this list includes toponyms from Roman times, this list does ''not'' include later wholly
Latin-derived names that have (nor had) no Greek linguistic involvement, involvement with the Greek world, nor significant Greek-speaking communities. (A notable exception may be places such as
Australia, which has one of the largest modern Greek-speaking communities outside Greece and Cyprus.) However, much of the Roman Empire ''did'' have significant Greek-speaking communities, as Greek had been a popular language among the Roman elite from the beginning.
Both
koine and
modern forms and transliterations (including
polytonic spellings) are listed if available. This list is incomplete, and some items in the list lack academic detail.
As a
historical linguistics article, this list is an academic
lexicon for the history of Greek place names, and is not a formal
dictionary nor
gazetteer and should not be relied upon as such.
Indeed, many toponyms in
Modern Greek now have different names than were used in by Greek-speaking communities in the past. An example is
Malta, which was called (''MelÃtÄ“'') and was once home to a Greek-speaking community. However, this community is gone or assimilated, and the common Modern Greek name is (''Málta'', from
Maltese).
However, in other cases, Modern Greek has retained archaic names (sometimes with grammatical modifications).
Distinctly Greek names are also largely retained for places without significant modern Greek populations that had a larger Greek-speaking presence until relatively recent times in history, including many areas in what are now
Turkey,
Egypt,
Russia and
Ukraine.
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Format
The names presented are in
Classical Greek spelling, scientific transliteration of Classical Greek, standard
Modern Greek, the
United Nations transliteration for Modern Greek, and the Modern Greek pronunciation in the
International Phonetic Alphabet.
The list
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