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Ellada
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English
Etymology
en el Ελλάδα. en Hellas.
Proper noun
en rare Greece.
en The Maccabæan III New York, N.Y. 1902 167 https://books.google.com/books?id=ehBJAQAAMAAJ&q=Ellada How and in what manner is this transaction to be accomplished? / In the manner in which the Greeks regained possession of their historic land—the Ellada and its islands. / As a reward to Ellada of antiquity for her presenting the world with her philosophy, art and wonderful science; as an appreciation of gratitude for the great sons she has given to mankind in the persons of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Æschylus, Sophocles and other men of genius who have enriched mankind and who have presented humanity with marble gods and goddesses, such as Minerva, Apollo and the ox Forneszky; in recognition of all these the Powers of the world agreed to have Ellada restored to her descendants.
en Dmitri Merejkowski Bernard Guilbert Guerney w:The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci New York, N.Y. The Modern Library 1928 115 https://archive.org/details/romanceofleonard00mere/page/115/mode/1up “Whence come ye, little sisters?” Aunt Sidonia hailed them. / “Out of Ellada, from the Island of Candia!”
en Kathleen Taylor Going to Russia? A Popular Guide for Tourists London w:Lawrence & Wishart 1958 161 https://books.google.com/books?id=wIEnAQAAMAAJ&q=Ellada Settled life on the Black Sea Coast was started in the sixth century b.c. by Greeks from Ellada who founded Pantikapea, Phanagoria, Chersones and other thriving colonies.
en w:Diana Lewis Burgin Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature New York, N.Y.; London w:New York University Press 1994 154 https://archive.org/details/sophiaparnoklife00burg/page/154/mode/1up 0-8147-1190-1 She feels the breath of Ellada in a breeze from beyond the sea, a breeze, unsensed by other people, stirs her heart: it seems to the maiden she will dream out your dreams, Sappho, she will finish your songs, which have not reached our ears.
en Aleksandr Chudakov Olga Tabachnikova; Adam Ure Chekhov and Merezhkovskii: Two Types of Artistic-Philosophical Consciousness Anton Chekhov Through the Eyes of Russian Thinkers: Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov London; New York, N.Y. Anthem Press 2010 part two (Dmitrii Merezhkovskii) 102 https://archive.org/details/antonchekhovthro0000unse/page/102/mode/1up 978 1 84331 841 5 The power of logical constructions is clearly visible in the foundations of [Dmitrii] Merezhkovskii’s Weltanschauung – his feelings towards Christianity. For him, Christianity is only ascetic (‘the black, colourless shadows of monks’ on the marble of Ellada in his Julian the Apostate).
en Vasily Sesemann Mykolas Drunga Mykolas Drunga; w:Leonidas Donskis Selected Papers Amsterdam; New York, N.Y. Rodopi 2010 35 https://books.google.com/books?id=uhY773a_6OIC&pg=PA35 978-90-420-2825-8 We should remember that in antiquity, during the period of the greatest flourishing of classical art, elementary education in the public schools of Ellada consisted largely of the Homerian epos and its recitation to the musical accompaniment provided by the pupils themselves.
en Dimitri Harakidas The 99 …and the 99 Choices That We All Need to Embrace in Order to Improve the Way Our Planet, and Everything Else Within It, Is Treated… 2013 98 https://books.google.com/books?id=LGMdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA98 9780992466800 In 1978, as Ellada was about to join the European Economic Community (EEC), its per capita GDP was just 5% below the European average PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) basis. In 2000, the gap was 30%. In retrospect, Ellada’s entry into the EEC has been seen as a political gesture, and in many ways it was;
en Anastasiia Deniz Mitchell Prodigy. Roxanne Mitchell’s Diary https://books.google.com/books?id=iwQoEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT5 2021 978-5-0053-5442-6 I took to Ellada when I was a toddler: Mum and me visited it at the time. I wanted to speak Greek most of all. My love for the land is simply unexplainable.
en Serhij Abramyk Enlightening Message https://books.google.com/books?id=Bf-eEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT39 2022 978-5-0059-2834-4 Soon the asteroid Apophis will destroy your palaces, and your armies will graze the grass and die from lack of food and diarrhea, like troops of Xerxes retreating from Ellada.