Meaning of Ellada | Babel Free

Definitions

Greece.

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Examples

“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.”

““Whence come ye, little sisters?” Aunt Sidonia hailed them. / “Out of Ellada, from the Island of Candia!””

“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.”

“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.”

“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).”

“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.”

“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; […]”

“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.”

“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.”

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