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This is a list of Greek place names as they exist in the Greek language . Places involved in the history of Greek culture, including: Historic Greek regions, including: Ancient Greece, including colonies and contacted peoples. Hellenistic world, including successor states and contacted peoples. Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, including ...
Khujand. Alexandria the Furthest, Khüjand, Khodzhent, Khudchand, Chodjend, Ispisar, Leninabad, Leninobod. Alexandria on the Indus. at the confluence of the Indus and Chenab rivers, Pakistan, 13 km from modern Uch. abandoned. Uch, Uch Sharif, Alexandria at the Head of the Punjab. Alexandria on the Oxus.
Kavala. Chania. Mytilene. Corfu (city) Rhodes (city) Agrinio. Veria. The lowest level of census-designated places in Greece are called oikismoi ( settlements) and are the smallest continuous built-up areas with a toponym designated for the census. Although some urban CDPs form individual cities and towns (labeled in bold) the majority of them ...
A kome ( Greek: κώμη) was typically a village that was also a political unit. The translation is inexact, but according to Thucydides, Sparta, though it was a polis, resembled four unwalled villages. Similarly, a kome could be a neighbourhood within a larger polis or its own rural settlement. Thucydides mused that the polis had developed ...
The name changes followed the territorial expanses of Greece and continued into the Greek Republic. They occurred in the Arvanite settlements in central Greece since 1830, in Thessaly since 1881, after the Balkan Wars in Macedonia since 1913, and Western Thrace since 1920. The last name changes occurred in 1998. [2]
Victoria, British Columbia. Vigornia. Worcester, England; Worcester, Massachusetts. Vindobona. Vienna, Austria. Latinized form of a Greek name. Naples/Neapolis is a rare exception to the rule of Latinization of foreign city names owing to the fact that it was established by the Greeks and predates Rome by many centuries.
Karystos (2 C, 4 P) Kastoria (2 C, 52 P) Katerini (2 C, 18 P) Komotini (2 C, 13 P) Kozani (3 C, 63 P) Kyparissia (2 C, 2 P)
28. Karamanlis. “Man from Karamania” is the straightforward meaning of this Greek last name. 29. Simopoulos. “Son of Simon” is what this last name breaks down to mean. 30. Argiros. With a ...