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List of traditional Greek place names

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This is a list of Greek place names. That is, a list of the names of places as they exist in the Greek language

Greek language

Greek , an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, is the language of the Greeks. Native to the southern Balkans, it has the longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning 34 centuries of written records. In its ancient form, it is the language of classical...

. This list includes:

Places involved in the history of Greek culture, including:
- Historic Greek regions, including:
  - Ancient Greece
    Ancient Greece
    Ancient Greece is the civilisation belonging to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth. It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the...
    
    , including colonies
    Colonies in antiquity
    Colonies in antiquity were city-states founded from a mother-city, not from a territory-at-large. Bonds between a colony and its metropolis remained close, and took specific forms...
    
    and contacted peoples
  - Hellenistic world, including successor states and contacted peoples
  - Roman Empire
    Roman Empire
    The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean. The term is used to describe the Roman state during and after the time of the first emperor,...
    
    and Byzantine Empire
    Byzantine Empire
    The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on the capital of Constantinople, and ruled by Emperors in direct and de jure succession to the ancient Roman Emperors...
    
    , including successor states
  - Ottoman Empire
    Ottoman Empire
    The Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299 to November 1, 1922 The Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِیَّهِ عُثْمَانِیَّه Dawlet-il ʿAliyyat-il ʿOs̠māniyye, Modern Turkish:...
    
    , including successor states
  - Septinsular Republic
    Septinsular Republic
    The Septinsular Republic was an island republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Ottoman sovereignty in the Ionian Islands. It was the first time Greeks had been granted even limited self-government since the fall of the last remnants of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans in the...
  - Modern Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....
    
    and Cyprus
    Cyprus
    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean, south of Turkey and west of Syria and Lebanon....
    
    , and also what remains of treaty
    Treaty of Lausanne
    The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland, that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty of Sèvres that was signed by the Constantinople-based Ottoman government; as the consequence of the...
    
    Greek minorities in Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
- Places that have or had important Greek-speaking or ethnic Greek minorities or exile communities
  Greek diaspora
  The Greek diaspora is a term used to refer to the communities of Greek people living outside of the traditional Greek homelands, but more commonly in southeast Europe and Asia Minor. Members of the diaspora can be identified as those who themselves, or whose ancestors, migrated from the Greek...
- Places of concern to Greek culture, religion or tradition, including:
  - Greek mythology
    Greek mythology
    Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
  - Greek Jew
    Jew
    The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
    
    s, including Romaniotes
    Romaniotes
    The Romaniotes or Romaniots are a Jewish population who have lived in the territory of today's Greece and neighboring areas with large Greek populations for more than 2,000 years. Their language is Greek and they derive their name from the old name for the people of the Byzantine Empire, Rhomaioi...
    
    and exiled Sephardim
  - Greco-Buddhism
    Greco-Buddhism
    Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE in the area covered by modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and north-western border regions of modern India namely...
  - Christianity
    Christianity
    Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented by the revelations in the New Testament....
    
    until the Great Schism
    Great Schism
    The term Great Schism may refer to one of several events in Christianity:* The East-West Schism , between Western Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity....
    
    , and afterwards the Eastern Orthodox Church
    Eastern Orthodox Church
    The Orthodox Church, also officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to in English speaking countries as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the world's second largest Christian communion, estimated to number 225 million members...
    
    , Eastern Rite
    Eastern Rite Catholic Churches
    The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous particular Churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome — the Pope. They preserve the centuries-old liturgical and devotional traditions of the various Eastern Christian Churches with which they are associated historically...
    
    , etc.
  - Greek Muslims
    Greek Muslims
    Greek Muslims, also known as Greek-speaking Muslims, are Muslims of Greek ethnic origin, and are found primarily in Turkey, Cyprus, and Greece, although migrations to Lebanon and Syria have been reported. Historically, Greek Orthodoxy has been associated with being Roman i.e...
    
    , including Islam in Greece
    Islam in Greece
    Islam in Greece is represented by a number of autochthonous and immigrant communities.-Autochthonous Muslims in Greece:The indigenous Muslim population in Greece is not homogeneous since it consists of different ethnic, linguistic and social backgrounds which often overlap...
    
    , 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

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe...

-derived names that have (nor had) no Greek linguistic involvement, involvement with the Greek world, nor significant Greek-speaking communities.

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This is a list of Greek place names. That is, a list of the names of places as they exist in the Greek language

Greek language

. This list includes:

Places involved in the history of Greek culture, including:
- Historic Greek regions, including:
  - Ancient Greece
    Ancient Greece
    Ancient Greece is the civilisation belonging to the period of Greek history lasting from the Greek Dark Ages ca. 1100 BC and the Dorian invasion, to 146 BC and the Roman conquest of Greece after the Battle of Corinth. It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the...
    
    , including colonies
    Colonies in antiquity
    Colonies in antiquity were city-states founded from a mother-city, not from a territory-at-large. Bonds between a colony and its metropolis remained close, and took specific forms...
    
    and contacted peoples
  - Hellenistic world, including successor states and contacted peoples
  - Roman Empire
    Roman Empire
    The Roman Empire was the post-Republican phase of the ancient Roman civilization, characterised by an autocratic form of government and large territorial holdings in Europe and around the Mediterranean. The term is used to describe the Roman state during and after the time of the first emperor,...
    
    and Byzantine Empire
    Byzantine Empire
    The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on the capital of Constantinople, and ruled by Emperors in direct and de jure succession to the ancient Roman Emperors...
    
    , including successor states
  - Ottoman Empire
    Ottoman Empire
    The Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State , also known by its contemporaries as the Turkish Empire or Turkey , was an empire that lasted from 1299 to November 1, 1922 The Ottoman Empire or Ottoman State (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِیَّهِ عُثْمَانِیَّه Dawlet-il ʿAliyyat-il ʿOs̠māniyye, Modern Turkish:...
    
    , including successor states
  - Septinsular Republic
    Septinsular Republic
    The Septinsular Republic was an island republic that existed from 1800 to 1807 under nominal Ottoman sovereignty in the Ionian Islands. It was the first time Greeks had been granted even limited self-government since the fall of the last remnants of the Byzantine Empire to the Ottomans in the...
  - Modern Greece
    Greece
    Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....
    
    and Cyprus
    Cyprus
    Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean, south of Turkey and west of Syria and Lebanon....
    
    , and also what remains of treaty
    Treaty of Lausanne
    The Treaty of Lausanne was a peace treaty signed in Lausanne, Switzerland, that settled the Anatolian and East Thracian parts of the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire by annulment of the Treaty of Sèvres that was signed by the Constantinople-based Ottoman government; as the consequence of the...
    
    Greek minorities in Turkey
    Turkey
    Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...
- Places that have or had important Greek-speaking or ethnic Greek minorities or exile communities
  Greek diaspora
  The Greek diaspora is a term used to refer to the communities of Greek people living outside of the traditional Greek homelands, but more commonly in southeast Europe and Asia Minor. Members of the diaspora can be identified as those who themselves, or whose ancestors, migrated from the Greek...
- Places of concern to Greek culture, religion or tradition, including:
  - Greek mythology
    Greek mythology
    Greek mythology is the body of myths and legends belonging to the ancient Greeks concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices. They were a part of religion in ancient Greece...
  - Greek Jew
    Jew
    The Jews , also known as the Jewish people, are an ethnoreligious group originating in the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East. The Jewish ethnicity, nationality, and religion are strongly interrelated, as Judaism is the traditional faith of the Jewish nation...
    
    s, including Romaniotes
    Romaniotes
    The Romaniotes or Romaniots are a Jewish population who have lived in the territory of today's Greece and neighboring areas with large Greek populations for more than 2,000 years. Their language is Greek and they derive their name from the old name for the people of the Byzantine Empire, Rhomaioi...
    
    and exiled Sephardim
  - Greco-Buddhism
    Greco-Buddhism
    Greco-Buddhism, sometimes spelt Graeco-Buddhism, refers to the cultural syncretism between Hellenistic culture and Buddhism, which developed between the 4th century BCE and the 5th century CE in the area covered by modern Afghanistan, Pakistan and north-western border regions of modern India namely...
  - Christianity
    Christianity
    Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth as presented by the revelations in the New Testament....
    
    until the Great Schism
    Great Schism
    The term Great Schism may refer to one of several events in Christianity:* The East-West Schism , between Western Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Christianity....
    
    , and afterwards the Eastern Orthodox Church
    Eastern Orthodox Church
    The Orthodox Church, also officially called the Orthodox Catholic Church and commonly referred to in English speaking countries as the Eastern Orthodox Church, is the world's second largest Christian communion, estimated to number 225 million members...
    
    , Eastern Rite
    Eastern Rite Catholic Churches
    The Eastern Catholic Churches are autonomous particular Churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome — the Pope. They preserve the centuries-old liturgical and devotional traditions of the various Eastern Christian Churches with which they are associated historically...
    
    , etc.
  - Greek Muslims
    Greek Muslims
    Greek Muslims, also known as Greek-speaking Muslims, are Muslims of Greek ethnic origin, and are found primarily in Turkey, Cyprus, and Greece, although migrations to Lebanon and Syria have been reported. Historically, Greek Orthodoxy has been associated with being Roman i.e...
    
    , including Islam in Greece
    Islam in Greece
    Islam in Greece is represented by a number of autochthonous and immigrant communities.-Autochthonous Muslims in Greece:The indigenous Muslim population in Greece is not homogeneous since it consists of different ethnic, linguistic and social backgrounds which often overlap...
    
    , 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

Latin

Latin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe...

-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

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...

, 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

Koine Greek

Koine Greek is the popular form of Greek which emerged in post-Classical antiquity . Other names are Alexandrian, Hellenistic, Patristic, Common, Biblical or New Testament Greek...

and modern

Modern Greek

Modern Greek refers to the varieties of Greek spoken in the modern era. The beginning of the "modern" period of the language is often symbolically assigned to the fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453, even though that date marks no clear linguistic boundary and many characteristic modern features...

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

Historical linguistics

Historical linguistics is the study of language change. It has five main concerns:* to describe and account for observed changes in particular languages;...

article, this list is an academic lexicon

Lexicon

In linguistics, the lexicon of a language is its vocabulary, including its words and expressions. More formally, it is a language's inventory of lexemes....

for the history of Greek place names, and is not a formal dictionary

Dictionary

A dictionary is a collection of words in a specific language, often listed alphabetically, with definitions, etymologies, phonetics, pronunciations, and other information; or a book of words in one language with their equivalents in another, also known as a lexicon...

nor gazetteer

Gazetteer

A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or directory, an important reference for information about places and place names , used in conjunction with a map or a full atlas. It typically contains information concerning the geographical makeup of a country, region, or continent as well as the social...

and should not be relied upon as such.

Indeed, many toponyms in Modern Greek

Modern Greek

now have different names than were used in by Greek-speaking communities in the past. An example is Malta

Malta

Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed European country in the European Union. The Southern European island nation is an archipelago that includes the inhabited islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino, along with a number of smaller, uninhabited islands...

, which was called (Melítē) 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

Maltese language

Maltese is the national language of Malta, and a co-official language of the country alongside English,while also serving as an official language of the European Union, the only Semitic language so distinguished. Maltese is descended from Siculo-Arabic...

).

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

Turkey

Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe...

, Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia...

, Russia

Russia

Russia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

and Ukraine

Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev is both the capital and the largest city of...

Contents
Format The list Α Β Γ Δ Ε Ζ Η Θ Ι Κ Λ Μ Ν Ξ Ο Π Ρ Σ Τ Υ Φ Χ Ψ Ω

Format

The names presented are in Classical Greek spelling, scientific transliteration of Classical Greek, standard Modern Greek

Modern Greek

, the United Nations

United Nations

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transliteration

Transliteration

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for Modern Greek, and the Modern Greek pronunciation in the International Phonetic Alphabet

International Phonetic Alphabet

The International Phonetic Alphabet "The acronym 'IPA' strictly refers [...] to the 'International Phonetic Association'. But it is now such a common practice to use the acronym also to refer to the alphabet itself that resistance seems pedantic...

Α

Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English; Modern Name
					English; Modern Name
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA
					Abdera Abdera, Thrace Abdera was a city-state on the coast of Thrace 17 km east-northeast of the mouth of the Nestos, and almost opposite Thasos. The site now lies in the Xanthi Prefecture of modern Greece...
					Abydus; Abydos Abydos Abydos may mean:Abydos, Egypt, an Ancient Egyptian cityAbydos, Hellespont , an ancient city of Mysia, in Asia MinorAbydos , a 2004 solo musical project of Andy Kuntz, member of Vanden PlasLa Fiancée d'Abydos of Eugène Delacroix...
					Agathe Tyche; Agde Agde Agde is the commune in the Hérault department in southern France that is the Mediterranean port of the Canal du Midi. Its inhabitants are called Agathois.-Location:...
					Anglia Anglia Anglia is:* The mediaeval and late Latin name for England.* A name for the eastern part of England, more commonly, and more accurately, known as East Anglia and, one of the kingdoms of the Heptarchy.... ; England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
					Agia Varvara Agia Varvara Agia Varvara Agia Varvara Agia Varvara ' onMouseout='HidePop("2936")' href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Agia_Paraskevi">Agia Paraskevi Agia Paraskevi Agia Paraskevi , is a suburb of Athens, Greece, in the northeast of Athens, about nine kilometers away from the city. It is linked to Athens by Mesogeion Avenue, a major road in the greater Athens area.-History:...
					Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea. The city's other names were Petrograd and Leningrad...
					Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia Hagia Sophia is a former Orthodox patriarchal basilica, later a mosque, now a museum in Istanbul, Turkey... ; Ayasofya
					Agios Efstratios Agios Efstratios Agios Efstratios or Saint Eustratius is a small Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea about 30 km southwest of Lemnos and 80 km northwest of Lesbos...
					Agios Nikolaos Agios Nikolaos Agios Nikolaos or Ayios Nikolaos is a common place name in Greece and Cyprus since Saint Nicholas is the patron saint of sailors and of all of Greece....
					Ancyra; Angora Angora Angora may refer to:* Angora, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania** Angora , a commuter rail station* Angora Township, Minnesota* Angora, Nebraska* Angora , a musical group* Angora wool, from the Angora rabbit... ; Engürü; Ankara Ankara Ankara is the capital of Turkey and the country's second largest city after Istanbul. The city has a mean elevation of , and as of 2007 the city had a population of 4,751,360, which includes eight districts under the city's administration...
					Adrianople; Edirne Edirne Edirne is a city in Thrace, the westernmost part of Turkey, close to the borders with Greece and Bulgaria. Edirne served as the capital city of the Ottoman Empire from 1365 to 1453, when Constantinople became the empire's new capital. At present, Edirne is the capital of the Edirne Province in...
					Azotus Azotus Azotus , a Greek name for an ancient Philistine city, is identified by different authorities with either:*Gaza, now the largest city within the Gaza Strip, part of the Palestinian Territories... ; Ashdod Ashdod Ashdod , is the fifth-largest city in Israel, located in the Southern District of the country, on the Mediterranean coast, with a population of 207,000. Ashdod is an important regional industrial centre...
					Athens Athens Athens , the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
					Athos Athos Athos may refer to:* Athos , one of the Gigantes in Greek mythology* Mount Athos, a mountain and peninsula in Greece containing an ancient monastic state* Athos, a village in France, part of the commune Athos-Aspis...
					Aegaeae; Nemrutkale
					Aegean Aegean Aegean may refer to:Aegean SeaAegean IslandsAegean Region, TurkeyAegean civilizationTyrsenian languages, aka Aegean languagesAegean Airlines*Aegean Macedonia, another term for the Greek region of Macedonia...
					Aegina Aegina Aegina is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island...
					Egio
					Egypt Egypt Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia...
					Hades Hades Hades refers both to the ancient Greek underworld, the abode of Hades, and to the god of the underworld. Hades in Homer referred just to the god; the genitive , Haidou, was an elision to denote locality: "[the house/dominion] of Hades"...
					Ethiopia Ethiopia Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast. Its size is 1,100,000 km² with an...
					Katerini Katerini Katerini is a town in Central Macedonia, Greece, the capital of Pieria prefecture. It lies on the Pierian plain, between Mt. Olympus and the Thermaikos Gulf, at an altitude of 14 m. The town, which is one of the newest in Greece, has a population of 56,576...
					Aenus
					Aeolian Islands Aeolian Islands The Aeolian Islands or Lipari Islands are a volcanic archipelago in the Tyrrhenian Sea north of Sicily, named after the demigod of the winds Aeolus. The locals residing on the islands are known as Eolian. They are a popular tourist destination in the summer, and attract up to 200,000 visitors...
					Aeolis Aeolis Aeolis or Aeolia was an area that comprised the west and northwestern region of Asia Minor, mostly along the coast, and also several offshore islands , where the Aeolian Greek city-states were located...
					Etna
					Aetolia Aetolia Aetolia is a mountainous region of Greece on the north coast of the Gulf of Corinth, forming the eastern part of the modern prefecture of Aetolia-Acarnania.-Geography:...
					Acanthus Acanthus (Greece) Acanthus or Akanthos was an ancient Greek city on the Athos peninsula. It was located on the north-east side of Akti, on the most eastern peninsula of Chalcidice...
					Acarnania Acarnania Acarnania is a region of west-central Greece that lies along the Ionian Sea, west of Aetolia, with the Achelous River for a boundary, and north of the gulf of Calydon, which is the entrance to the Gulf of Corinth. Today it forms the western part of the prefecture of Aetolia-Acarnania...
					Acesines; Chenab River Chenab River The Chenab River is formed by the confluence of the Chandra and Bhaga rivers at Tandi located in the upper Himalayas in the Lahul and Spiti District of Himachal Pradesh, India. In its upper reaches it is also known as the ...
					Acragas Acragas Acragas may refer to:* Agrigento, aka Acragas, an ancient Greek city on the site of modern Agrigento, Sicily* Acragas , an engraver or chaser in silver, mentioned by Pliny the Elder* Acragas , a genus of jumping spiders... ; Agrigentum
					Acropolis Acropolis Acropolis literally means city on the edge . In Greek, Acropolis means "Highest City". For purposes of defense, early settlers naturally chose elevated ground, frequently a hill with precipitous sides...
					Alabanda Alabanda Alabanda – also hê Alabanda, ta Alabanda, Alabandeus, Alabandensis, Alabandenus, and for a time, Antiochia of the Chrysaorians – was an ancient city of Caria, Anatolia, the site of which is now located near Doğanyurt , Aydin Province, in the Asian part of Turkey.The city is located in... ; Doğanyurt Doganyurt Doğanyurt, formerly Hoşalay, is a town and district of the Kastamonu Province in the Black Sea region of Turkey. According to the 2000 census, population of the district is 9,668 of which 1,470 live in the town of Doğanyurt. The district covers an area of , and the town lies at an elevation of...
					Albania Albania Albania , officially the Republic of Albania , is a Mediterranean country in South Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Montenegro to the north, Kosovo to the northeast, Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south-east...
					Alexandria Alexandria Alexandria , with a population of 4.1 million, is the second-largest city in Egypt, and is the country's largest seaport, serving about 80% of Egypt's imports and exports... ; al-Iskandariya
					Alexandretta; İskenderun Iskenderun İskenderun , is a city and district in the province of Hatay on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey.-Geography:...
					Alexandroupoli Alexandroupoli For the ancient city of Alexander the Great in the Thracian mainland, see Alexandropolis MaedicaAlexandroupoli is a city of Greece and the capital of the Evros Prefecture in Thrace. Names for the city in other languages include , and...
					Haliartus
					Halicarnassus Halicarnassus Halicarnassus was an ancient Greek city on the southwest coast of Caria, Anatolia , on a picturesque, advantageous site on the Ceramic Gulf . It was the site of the Siege of Halicarnassus, between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire... ; Petronium; Bodrum Bodrum Bodrum , formerly Halicarnassus , is a Turkish port town in Muğla Province, in the southwestern Aegean Region of the country. It is located on the southern coast of Bodrum Peninsula, at a point that checks the entry into the Gulf of Gökova, and it faces the Greek island of Kos...
					Alinda Alinda (Caria) Alinda was an ancient inland city of Caria in Anatolia. It is situated on a hilltop which commands the modern-day town of Karpuzlu, Aydın Province, in western Turkey, and overlooks a fertile plain.... ; Karpuzlu Karpuzlu Karpuzlu is a town and district of Aydın Province, in the Aegean region of Turkey, from the city of Aydın.Karpuzlu is reached by turning off the road from Aydın to Çine. There is infrequent public transport from both towns to Karpuzlu, which can also be reached by the mountain road from Bodrum or...
					Almaty Almaty Almaty is the largest city in Kazakhstan, with a population of 1,348,500 , which represents 9% of the population of the country....
					Alps Alps The Alps are one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east; through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany; to France in the west....
					Halys Halys River The Kızılırmak , also known as the Halys River is the longest river in Turkey. It is a source of hydroelectric power and it is not used for navigation.- Geography :... ; Kızılırmak Kizilirmak -Geographical names in Turkey:* Kızılırmak River is the longest river of Anatolia.* Kızılırmak, Çankırı is a district of Çankırı Province, Turkey....
					Alpheus Alfeios River Alfeiós is a river in Peloponnese, Greece. Its source is near Megalopoli in the prefecture Arcadia. It flows along Olympia and empties into the Ionian Sea in the prefecture of Ilia, near Pyrgos. As the longest river in the Peloponnese, at 110 km, the river flows in the prefectures of Arcadia and...
					Amaseia; Amasya Amasya Amasya is the administrative district of Amasya Province in northern Turkey. It covers an area of 1730 km², and a population of 133,000....
					Hamburg Hamburg Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany and the sixth-largest city in the European Union...
					America
					Amorgos Amorgos Amorgos is the easternmost island of the Greek Cyclades island group, and the nearest island to the neighboring Dodecanese island group. Along with several neighboring islets, the largest of which is Nikouria Island, it comprises the municipality of Amorgos, which has a land area of...
					Ambracia Ambracia Ambracia, occasionally Ampracia , was an ancient Corinthian colony, situated about 7 miles from the Ambracian Gulf in Greece, on a bend of the navigable river Arachthos , in the midst of a fertile wooded plain....
					Amyclae
					Amphipolis Amphipolis Amphipolis was an ancient Greek city in the region once inhabited by the Edoni people in the present-day periphery of Central Macedonia. It was built on a raised plateau overlooking the east bank of the river Strymon where it emerged from Lake Cercinitis, about 3 m. from the Aegean Sea. Founded in...
					Amphissa
					Amphryssos Amphryssos The River Amphryssos is located in Thessaly.In Callimachus' "Hymn to Apollo" Apollo tends Admetus' herds by the Amphryssos during his punishment for killing the Cyclopes. In the Argonautica of Apollonius of Rhodes Eupolemeia bore the Argonaut Aethalides to Hermes near the Amphryssos....
					Anaea
					Anatolia Anatolia Anatolia is a geographic region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. The region is bounded by the Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Iranian plateau to the southeast, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west... ; Asia Minor
					Anaphe; Anafi Anafi Anafi is a Greek island community in the Cyclades. In 2001, it had a population of 273 inhabitants. Its land area is 40.370 km². It lies east of the island of Thíra .-History:...
					Andros Andros Andros, or Andro , an island of the Greek archipelago, the most northerly of the Cyclades, approximately 10 km south east of Euboea, and about north of Tinos. It is nearly long, and its greatest breadth is . Its surface is for the most part mountainous, with many fruitful and well-watered valleys...
					Anio; Aniene Aniene The Aniene River is a 98 km river in Lazio, Italy. It flows down from the mountains at Trevi nel Lazio and goes westward past Subiaco, Vicovaro, and Tivoli into the Tiber...
					Antarctica Antarctica \| style="border-top:solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding:0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align:top;" \| 14,000,000 km² 280,000 km² 13,720,000 km² \|-! style="border-top: solid 1px #ccd2d9; padding: 0.4em 1em 0.4em 0; vertical-align: top;...
					Antikythera Antikythera Antikythera is a Greek island community with a land area of 20.43 square kilometers, lying 38 kilometers south-east of Kythira. It is the most distant part of the Piraeus Prefecture from its heart in the Athens metropolitan area. It is lozenge-shaped, 10.5 km NNW to SSE by 3.4 km ENE to...
					Antimelos
					Antium; Anzio Anzio Anzio is a city and comune on the coast of the Lazio region of Italy, about south of Rome.Well known for its seaside harbour setting, it is a fishing port and a departure point for ferries and hydroplanes to the Pontine Islands of Ponza, Palmarola and Ventotene...
					Antioch Antioch Antioch on the Orontes was an ancient city on the eastern side of the Orontes River... ; Antakya Antakya Antakya is the seat of the Hatay Province in southern Turkey, near the border with Syria. In ancient times the city was known as Antioch and has historical significance for Christianity, being the place where the followers of Jesus Christ were called Christians for the very first time...
					Antipaxos Antipaxos Antipaxos or Andipaxos is a small island in Greece, about 3 kilometers to the south of Paxos. It reported a population of 64 inhabitants at the 2001 census, and is administratively part of the municipality of Paxoi in Corfu Prefecture in western Greece... ; Antipaxi
					Antiparos Antiparos Antiparos is an island in the island group Cyclades in the Aegean Sea, in the modern eparchy of Naxos, separated by a strait from the west coast of Paros: the boat trip is just ten minutes from Pounta, a little port on Paros which can be reached by bus or taxi, and about twenty minutes from the...
					Antipolis Antipolis Antipolis, Greek for 'city opposite' , is the name or part of the name of:modern AntibesSophia-AntipolisIt is also the name of a tanker ship.... ; Antibes Antibes Antibes is a resort town in the Alpes-Maritimes department in south-eastern France, on the Mediterranean Sea in the Côte d'Azur, located between Cannes and Nice...
					Antirrhium
					Apulia Apulia Apulia is a region in southeastern Italy bordering the Adriatic Sea in the east, the Ionian Sea to the southeast, and the Strait of Òtranto and Gulf of Taranto in the south. Its southern portion known as Salento, a peninsula, forms a high heel on the "boot" of Italy... ; Puglia
					Arabia
					Araxes; Araks Araks River The Aras ; Latin: Aboras, is a river located in and along the countries of Turkey, Armenia, Iran, and Azerbaijan. Its total length is 1,072 kilometers...
					Argilus
					Argolis Argolis Argolis is one of the fifty-one prefectures of Greece. It is located in the eastern part of the Peloponnese. Most arable land lies in the central part...
					Argos Argos Argos is a city in Greece in the Peloponnese near Nafplion, which was its historic harbour .-Name:The region of Argos is known as the Argolis, Argolid, or Argeia...
					Argostoli Argostoli Argostoli has been the capital and administrative centre of Kefalonia, Greece, since 1757, following a population shift down from the old capital of Agios Georgios to take advantage of the trading opportunities provided by the sheltered bay upon which Argostoli sits...
					Areopoli Areopoli Areopoli is the second-largest town in Mani. The word areopoli means "city of Ares", the ancient Greek god of war. It is the seat of Oitylo municipality as well as Oitylo Province. However, Areopoli was not always the name of the city. Tsimova was Areopoli's first name...
					Mars Mars Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun in the Solar System. The planet is named after Mars, the Roman god of war. It is also referred to as the "Red Planet" because of its reddish appearance, due to iron oxide prevalent on its surface....
					Arcadia Arcadia Arcadia, Arkadía , or Arcady is a region of Greece in the Peloponnesus. It takes its name from the mythological character Arcas.-Modern times:...
					Arci
					Arctic Arctic The Arctic is the region around the Earth's North Pole, opposite the Antarctic region around the South Pole. The Arctic includes the Arctic Ocean and parts of Canada, Greenland , Russia, the United States , Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Finland.The word Arctic comes from the Greek αρκτικός , "near...
					Armenia Armenia Armenia , officially the Republic of Armenia , is a landlocked mountainous country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia...
					Arta Arta, Greece Arta is a city with a rich history in north-western Greece, capital of the Arta Prefecture which is part of the Epirus province. The city was known in ancient times as Amvrakia . Arta is famous for its old bridge located over the Arachthos river, situated west of downtown...
					Asia Asia Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.6% of the earth's total surface area and with approximately 4 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population.Asia is traditionally defined as part of the...
					Asine Asine (disambiguation) Asine was the name for several ancient Greek cities, most of them located in Peloponnesus.* Asine of Argolis* Asine of Messenia* Asine of Laconia* Asine, a town on the island of Cyprus* Asine a town at Cilicia in Asia Minor...
					Ascalon Ascalon The word Ascalon comes from Ashkelon, a coastal city in Israel. It can refer to a number of possible topics:-Ashkelon history related:* Battle of Ascalon, considered the last action of the First Crusade... ; Ashkelon Ashkelon Ashkelon or Ashqelon is a coastal city in the South District of Israel. The ancient seaport of Ashkelon dates back to the Bronze Age...
					Assyria Assyria Assyria was a civilization centered on the Upper Tigris river, in Mesopotamia , that came to rule regional empires a number of times in history. It was named for its original capital, the ancient city of Assur...
					Astana Astana Astana , is the capital and second largest city of Kazakhstan, with an officially estimated population of 750,700 as of November 2008....
					Astoria Astoria, Queens Astoria is a neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the borough of Queens in New York City. Located in Community Board 1, Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to three other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City, Sunnyside , and Woodside...
					Astypalaea
					Asopus Asopus Asopus or Asôpos is the name of five different rivers in Greece and Turkey and also in Greek mythology the name of the gods of those rivers.-The rivers:...
					Adige Adige The Adige is a river with its source in the Alpine region of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol near the Italian border with Austria and Switzerland...
					Atlantic
					Atlantis Atlantis Atlantis is a legendary island first mentioned in Plato's dialogues Timaeus and Critias.In Plato's account, Atlantis was a naval power lying "in front of the Pillars of Hercules" that conquered many parts of Western Europe and Africa 9,000 years before the time of Solon, or approximately 9600 BC...
					Atlas Atlas Mountains The Atlas Mountains are a mountain range across a northern stretch of Africa extending about 2,500 km through Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. The highest peak is Jbel Toubkal, with an elevation of in southwestern Morocco. The Atlas ranges separate the Mediterranean and Atlantic coastlines...
					Atropatene Atropatene Atropatene or Media Atropatene was an ancient kingdom established in the 4th century BC in modern Iranian Azerbaijan and Iranian Kurdistan. Its capital was Gazaca... ; Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Azerbaijan , formally the Republic of Azerbaijan , is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Located at the crossroads of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded by the Caspian Sea to the east, Russia to the north, Georgia to the northwest, Armenia to the west, and Iran to the south...
					Attalia; Antalya Antalya Antalya is a city on the Mediterranean coast of southwestern Turkey, and the capital city of Antalya Province. Situated on coastal cliffs, Antalya is surrounded by mountains...
					Attica Attica Attica is a periphery in Greece, containing Athens, the capital of Greece. Attica is subdivided into the prefectures of Athens, Piraeus, East Attica and West Attica.-Overview:...
					Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the continental mainland , the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans...
					Aphidnae
					Africa Africa Africa is the world's second-largest and second most-populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area. With a billion people in 61 territories, it accounts for about 14.8% of the...
					Venus Venus Venus is the second-closest planet to the Sun, orbiting it every 224.7 Earth days. The planet is named after Venus, the Roman goddess of love and beauty. After the Moon, it is the brightest natural object in the night sky, reaching an apparent magnitude of −4.6...
					Achaea Achaea Achaea is an ancient province and a present prefecture of Greece, on the northern coast of the Peloponnese, stretching from the mountain ranges of Erymanthus and Cyllene on the south to a narrow strip of fertile land on the north, bordering the Gulf of Corinth, into which the mountain Panachaicus...
					Acharnae Acharnae Acharnae was the largest deme of ancient Attica; it was located in the northwest part of the Attic plain, south of Mt. Parnes in the general vicinity of the modern suburbs of Acharnes and Ano Liosia, about 10 km due north of Athens. The Acharnians chiefly grew cereals, grapes, and olives,... ; Acharnes Acharnes Acharnes is a suburb of Athens also known as Menidi . It is the most populous municipality in East Attica Prefecture. Much of the area north of the area are the forested Parnitha ranges and the parkland...
					Achelous Acheloos River The Achelous , also Acheloos, is a river in western Greece. It formed the boundary between Acarnania and Aetolia of antiquity. It empties into the Ionian Sea...
					Acheron Acheron The Acheron is a river located in the Epirus region of northwest Greece. It flows into the Ionian Sea in Ammoudia, near Parga.-In mythology:...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English; Modern Name
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English; Modern Name
					Babylonia Babylonia Babylonia was a civilization in Lower Mesopotamia , with Babylon as its capital. Babylonia emerged when Hammurabi created an empire out of the territories of the former kingdoms of Sumer and Akkad...
					Baetis Baetis Baetis is a genus of mayflies of the family Baetidae.-Species:* Baetis alpinus Pictet, 1845* Baetis alternata Say, 1824* Baetis atrebatinus* Baetis buceratus* Baetis fuscatus... ; Guadalquivir Guadalquivir The Guadalquivir is the second longest river in Spain , and the longest in Andalusia. The Guadalquivir is 657 kilometers long and drains an area of about 58,000 square kilometers...
					Bactria Bactria Bactria was the ancient name of a historical region in Central Asia, located between the range of the Hindu Kush and the Amu Darya...
					Barca Barca Barce was an ancient Greek colony and later Roman, Byzantine, city in North Africa. It occupied the coastal area of what is modern day Libya. As a Greek city it was part of the Cyrenaican Pentapolis along with the city of Cyrene itself...
					Barcino Barcino Barcino may refer to:Barcelona, Spain - Barcino in LatinBarcino, Poland**Barcino... ; Barcelona Barcelona Barcelona is the capital, most populous city of the Autonomous Community of Catalonia and the second largest city in Spain, with a population of 1,615,908 in 2008. It is the 11th-most populous municipality in the European Union and sixth-most populous urban area in the European Union after Paris,...
					Vatican Vatican City Vatican City , officially the State of the Vatican City , is a landlocked sovereign city-state whose territory consists of a walled enclave within the city of Rome, the capital city of Italy...
					Belgica; Belgium Belgium The Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations, including NATO...
					Venice Venice Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital of the region Veneto, a population of 271,367 . Together with Padua, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area . The city historically was an independent nation... ; Venezia
					Venusia
					Vergina Vergina Vergina is a small town in northern Greece, located in the prefecture of Imathia, Central Macedonia. The town became internationally famous in 1977, when the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos unearthed what he claimed was the burial site of the kings of Macedon, including the tomb of Philip...
					Beroea; Veria Veria Veria is a city built at the foot of Vermion Mountains in Greece. It is a commercial center of Macedonia, the capital of the prefecture of Imathia, the province of Imathia and the seat of a bishop of the Greek Orthodox Church... ; Aleppo Aleppo Aleppo is a city in northern Syria, the second largest Syrian city and the capital of the Aleppo Governorate; the Governorate extends around the city for over 16,000 km² and has a population of 4,393,000, making it the largest Governorate in Syria by population...
					Berlin Berlin Berlin is the capital city and one of sixteen states of Germany. With a population of 3.4 million within its city limits, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city and the eighth most populous urban area in the European Union...
					Beirut Beirut Beirut is the capital and largest city of Lebanon with a population of over 2.1 million as of 2007. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's coastline with the Mediterranean sea, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport and also forms the Beirut Metropolitan Area, which...
					Bedriacum
					Bithynia Bithynia Bithynia was an ancient region, kingdom and Roman province in the northwest of Asia Minor, adjoining the Propontis, the Thracian Bosporus and the Euxine .-Description:...
					Victoria
					Vlachia; Wallachia Wallachia Wallachia or Walachia is a historical and geographical region of Romania. It is situated north of the Danube and south of the Southern Carpathians...
					Boeotia Boeotia Boeotia, also spelled Beotia and Bœotia , formerly Cadmeis, was a region of ancient Greece, north of the eastern part of the Gulf of Corinth. It was bounded on the south by Megaris and the Kithairon mountain range that forms a natural barrier with Attica, on the north by Opuntian Locris and the...
					Volos Volos Volos is a coastal port city situated at the center of the Greek mainland, about 326 km north from Athens and 215 km south from Thessaloniki...
					Bonn Bonn Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 20 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990...
					Borysthenes Borysthenes Borysthenes is a geographical name from classical Antiquity. It usually refers to the Dnieper River, but occasionally to the Pontic Olbia, a town situated at the mouth of that river.... ; Dnieper
					Bosphorus
					Boston Boston Boston is the capital and largest city of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest cities in the United States. The largest city in New England, Boston is considered the economic and cultural center of the region and is sometimes regarded as the unofficial "Capital of New England"...
					Bottiaea Bottiaea Bottiaea was a geographical region of ancient Macedonia and administrative district of Macedonian Kingdom. It was previously inhabited by the Bottiaeans, a people of uncertain origin, later expelled by Macedonians into Bottike...
					Bucharest Bucharest Bucharest is the capital city, industrial and financial centre of Romania. It is the largest city in Romania, located in the southeast of the country, at , and lies on the banks of the Dâmboviţa River.... ; București
					Bulgaria Bulgaria Bulgaria , officially the Republic of Bulgaria , is a country in the Balkans in south-eastern Europe. Bulgaria borders five other countries: Romania to the north , Serbia and the Republic of Macedonia to the west, and Greece and Turkey to the south...
					Branchidae; Didyma Didyma Didyma was an ancient Ionian sanctuary, the modern Didim, Turkey, containing a temple and oracle of Apollo, the Didymaion. In Greek didyma means "twin", but the Greeks who sought a "twin" at Didyma ignored the Carian origin of the name... ; Yenihisar Yenihisar Yenihisar is the former name of the district of Didim in Aydın Province of Turkey....
					Brazil Brazil Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the fifth largest country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the fifth most populous country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean...
					Brasilia Brasília Brasília is the capital of Brazil. The city and its District are located in the Central-West region of the country, along a plateau known as Planalto Central. It has a population of about 2,557,000 as of the 2008 IBGE estimate, making it the fourth largest city in Brazil, ahead of Belo Horizonte...
					Brauron Brauron The sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron is an early sacred site on the eastern coast of Attica near the Aegean Sea in a small inlet. The inlet has silted up since ancient times, pushing the current shoreline farther from the site...
					Brundisium; Brindisi Brindisi Brindisi is an ancient city in the Italian region of Apulia, the capital of the province of Brindisi, off the coast of the Adriatic Sea.-Ancient times:...
					Britannia Britannia Britannia was the term used by the Romans to refer to the Roman province covering much of the island of Great Britain. The area beyond the Antonine Wall belonging to the Picts in the north was known as Caledonia. The name itself derives from Pretannia, Diodorus's rendering of the indigenous name... ; Britain
					Brixellum
					Brussels Brussels Brussels , officially the Brussels Region or Brussels-Capital Region , is the de facto capital city of the European Union and the largest urban area in Belgium...
					Byblos Byblos Byblos is the Greek name of the Phoenician city Gebal . It is a Mediterranean city in the Mount Lebanon Governorate of present-day Lebanon under the current Arabic name of Jbeil and was also referred to as Gibelet during the Crusades... ; Gubla; Gebal; Jbeil
					Byzantium Byzantium Byzantium was an ancient Greek city, which was founded by Greek colonists from Megara in 667 BC and named after their king Byzas or Byzantas . The name "Byzantium" is a Latinization of the original name Byzantion... ; New Rome New Rome The term "New Rome" has been used in the following contexts.* It was a common name applied to Constantinople, the city founded by emperor Constantine I the Great in 324 . There is no evidence that such a title was actually used for official purposes in Constantine's own time... ; Constantinople Constantinople Constantinople was the imperial capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire... ; İstanbul Istanbul Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey and fifth largest city proper in the world with a population of 12.6 million. Istanbul is also a megacity, as well as the cultural and financial centre of Turkey. The city covers 39 districts of the Istanbul province...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Gader Cádiz Cádiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the Cádiz Province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia.... ; Gades; Cádiz Cádiz Cádiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the Cádiz Province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia....
					Gaza Gaza Gaza is a Palestinian city in the Gaza Strip, with a population of about 410,000, making it the largest city under the control of the Palestinian National Authority....
					Gaul Gaul Gaul is a historical name used in the context of the Roman Empire in references to the region of Western Europe approximating present day France and Belgium, but also sometimes including the Po Valley, western Switzerland, and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River... ; Galatia Galatia Ancient Galatia was an area in the highlands of central Anatolia in modern Turkey. Galatia, an ancient region of Asia Minor, was named for the immigrant Gauls from Thrace , who settled here and became its ruling caste in the 3rd century BC...
					Galilee Galilee Galilee , is a large region in northern Israel which overlaps with much of the administrative North District of the country...
					France France France , officially the French Republic , is a country located in Western Europe, with several overseas islands and territories located on other continents. Metropolitan France extends from the Mediterranean Sea to the English Channel and the North Sea, and from the Rhine to the Atlantic Ocean... ; Gaul Gaul Gaul is a historical name used in the context of the Roman Empire in references to the region of Western Europe approximating present day France and Belgium, but also sometimes including the Po Valley, western Switzerland, and the parts of the Netherlands and Germany on the west bank of the River...
					Ganymede Ganymede (moon) Ganymede is a moon of Jupiter and the largest moon in the Solar System. Completing an orbit in roughly seven days, it is the seventh moon and third Galilean moon from Jupiter. Ganymede participates in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance with the moons Europa and Io, respectively. It is larger in diameter...
					Garonne Garonne The Garonne is a river in southwest France and northern Spain, with a length of 575 km .-Origin of the name:...
					Gavdos Gavdos Gavdos or Gávdhos is the southernmost Greek island, located to the south of its much bigger neighbour, Crete, of which it is administratively a part, in the prefecture of Chania. It forms a community with surrounding islets and is part of the former province of Selino. It is the southernmost point...
					Gela Gela Gela is a town in the province of Caltanissetta in the south of Sicily, Italy. The city is at about 84 kilometers distance from the city of Caltanissetta, on the Mediterranean Sea. The city has a larger population than the provincial capital, and ranks second in land area.Gela is an important...
					Genua Genoa Genoa is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The city has a population of about 610,000 and the urban area has a population of about 900,000... ; Genova Génova Génova may refer to:* Spanish spelling of the city of Genoa, Italy* Génova, Quindío, a municipality in the department of Quindío, Colombia* Génova, Quetzaltenango, a municipality in the department of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala... ; Genoa Genoa Genoa is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The city has a population of about 610,000 and the urban area has a population of about 900,000...
					Germany Germany Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,... ; Deutschland Deutschland Deutschland is the German language word for Germany.Deutschland may also refer to:, a blockade-breaking German cargo submarine used during World War I., first of the 1930s pocket battleships, later renamed Lützow; involved in the 1937 Deutschland incident, a steamship wrecked in 1875 and...
					Gerontia; Gioura Gioura Gioura is a Greek island and an abandoned settlement in the eastern part of the Sporades. It is administratively part of the municipality of Alonissos. The island name dates back to the ancient times as Gerontia. The name was later altered to Gioura. The island also features a Neolithic settlement...
					Georgia Georgia (country) Georgia Georgia Georgia is a country in the Caucasus region of Eurasia. Situated at the juncture of Western Asia and Eastern Europe, it is bounded to the west by the Black Sea, to the north by Russia, to the south by Turkey and Armenia, and to the east by Azerbaijan...
					Earth Earth Earth is the third planet from the Sun. It is the fifth largest of the eight planets in the solar system, and the largest of the terrestrial planets in the Solar System in terms of diameter, mass and density...
					Golgotha
					Gomorrah Gomorrah Gomorrah is one of the biblical "Cities of the plain": Sodom and GomorrahGomorrah or Gomorra may also refer to:*Gomorrah , 2006 book by Roberto Saviano...
					Gortyn Gortyn Gortyn or Gortyna is a municipality and an archaeological site on the Mediterranean island of Crete, 45 km away from the modern capital Heraklion...
					Granicus Granicus Biga Çayı, Çan Çayı or Kocabaş Çayı is a small river, or large creek, in Çanakkale Province of northwestern Turkey. The flow begins at the base of the Mount Ida and trends generally northeasterly to the Sea of Marmara. It is located approximately 50 km to the east of the Dardanelles...
					Grevena Grevena Grevena is a town and municipality in Greece, capital of the Grevena Prefecture. The town's current population is 10,177 citizens; it lies about 400 km from Athens and about 180 km from Thessaloniki. The municipality's population is 15,481...
					Gyaros Gyaros Gyaros is an arid and unpopulated Greek island of the northern Cyclades near in the islands Andros and Tinos, with an area of 23 square kilometres. It is a part of the municipality of Ano Syros, which lies primarily on the island of Syros. This and other small islands of the Aegean Sea served as...
					Gythium

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Dacia Dacia In ancient geography, especially in Roman sources, Dacia was the land in East-Central Europe inhabited by the Dacians. Ancient Greeks called the same people "Getae"...
					Dalmatia Dalmatia Dalmatia , is a region on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea and is situated in modern Croatia. It spreads between the island of Rab in the northwest and the Bay of Kotor, in Montenegro, in the southeast...
					Damascus Damascus Damascus is the capital and largest city of Syria. It is the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world and its current population is estimated at about 1,669,000...
					Dardanelles Dardanelles The Dardanelles , formerly known as the Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. It is one of the Turkish Straits, along with its counterpart the Bosporus. It is located at approximately...
					Dardanus Dardanus In Greek mythology, Dardanus was a son of Zeus and Electra, daughter of Atlas, and founder of the city of Dardania on Mount Ida in the Troad.Dionysius of Halicarnassus states that Dardanus' original home was in Arcadia where Dardanus and his elder...
					Dascylium
					Daulis Daulis Daulis was an ancient Greek city in Phocis.According to Greek mythology, Daulis was the hometown of Tereus. The city is mentioned by Homer and it is said to be named after a nymph Daulis, a daughter of the river-god Cephissus....
					Daphnae Daphnae Daphnae was an ancient fortress near the Syrian frontier of Egypt, on the Pelusian arm of the Nile....
					Decapolis Decapolis The Decapolis was a group of ten cities on the eastern frontier of the Roman Empire in Jordan, Palestine, and Syria. The ten cities were not an official league or political unit, but they were grouped together because of their language, culture, location, and political status...
					Decelea Decelea Decelea , modern Dekeleia or Dekelia, Deceleia or Decelia, previous name Tatoi, was an ancient village in northern Attica serving as a source of supplies and trade route connecting Euboea with Athens, Greece. The Spartans took control of Decelea around 413 BCE... ; Dhekelia
					Delphi Delphi Delphi is both an archaeological site and a modern town in Greece on the south-western spur of Mount Parnassus in the valley of Phocis...
					Delos Delos The island of Delos , isolated in the centre of the roughly circular ring of islands called the Cyclades, near Mykonos, is one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece...
					Jupiter Jupiter Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest planet within the Solar System. It is a gas giant with a mass slightly less than one-thousandth that of the Sun but is two and a half times the mass of all of the other planets in our Solar System combined. Jupiter is classified as a gas...
					Didyma Didyma Didyma was an ancient Ionian sanctuary, the modern Didim, Turkey, containing a temple and oracle of Apollo, the Didymaion. In Greek didyma means "twin", but the Greeks who sought a "twin" at Didyma ignored the Carian origin of the name... ; Yenihisar Yenihisar Yenihisar is the former name of the district of Didim in Aydın Province of Turkey....
					Dindymon Dindymon In Greek mythology, Dindymon was a mountain in eastern Phrygia, later part of Galatia, that was later called Agdistis, sacred to the "mountain mother", Cybele, whom the Hellenes knew as Rhea...
					Dyme
					Dyrrachium; Durrës Durrës Durrës is the second-largest city of Albania. It is the most ancient and one of the most economically important cities of Albania. It is located on the central Albanian coast, about west of the capital Tirana. It is situated at one of the narrower points of the Adriatic Sea, opposite the Italian...
					Dodecanese Dodecanese The Dodecanese are a group of 12 larger plus 150 smaller Greek islands in the Aegean Sea, off the southwest coast of Turkey, southward of the island of Samos and northeastward of the island of Crete...
					Dodona Dodona Dodona in Epirus in northwestern Greece, was a prehistoric oracle devoted to a Mother Goddess identified at other sites with Rhea or Gaia, but here called Dione and later, in historical times also devoted to the Greek god Zeus...
					Doris Doris - Geography :* Doris , region in central Greece in which the Dorians had their traditional homeland* Doris , region of Asia Minor inhabited by Dorians* Doris, Iowa, USA- People :...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Edessa Edessa Edessa may refer to:Edessa, GreeceEdessa, Mesopotamia, now Şanlıurfa, TurkeyCounty of Edessa, a crusader stateOsroene, an ancient kingdom and province of the Roman Empire...
					Elaea Elaea Elaea can refer to any of several different items in ancient geography.cities* Elaea, port of Pergamum, now near Zeytindağ, İzmir Province, Turkey* Elaea, port in ancient Aethiopia* Elaea, chief city of Elaeatis in Epirus at the mouth of the Acheron... ; Kazıkbağları
					Elafonisos Elafonisos Elafonisos is a small Greek island between the Peloponnese and Kythira . It lies off the coast of Cape Malea and Vatika . The area of the island is 19 km²....
					Helvetia Helvetia Helvetia is the female personification of Switzerland. Sometimes called the mother of the Swiss nation, she is typically pictured in a flowing gown, with a spear and a shield emblazoned with the Swiss flag, and commonly with braided hair, commonly with a wreath as a symbol of Confederation.The term... ; Switzerland Switzerland Switzerland , officially the Swiss Confederation , is a federal republic consisting of 26 states named cantons, with Bern as the seat of the federal authorities...
					Elea Elea Elea may refer to:* Elea, ancient name of an italian greek colony, now known as Velia*Eleatics, school of pre-Socratic philosophers at Elea Elea, a settlement of Cyprus in Kyrenia District... ; Velia Velia Velia is the Italian name of the ancient town of Elea located on the territory of the comune of Ascea, Salerno, Campania, Italy in a geographical sub-area named Cilento...
					Eleutherae Eleutherae Eleutherae is a city in the northern part of Attica, bordering the territory of Boeotia. One of the best preserved fortresses of the Ancient Greece stands now on the spot of Ancient Eleutherae with walls of very fine masonry that average 2.6m thick. A stretch of wall 206m long containing six...
					Eleusis
					Elephantine Elephantine Elephantine is an island in the River Nile, located just downstream of the First Cataract at at the southern border of Ancient Egypt. This region is referred to as Upper Egypt because the land is higher than that near the Mediterranean coast. It may have received its name because it was a...
					Helike Helike Helike was an ancient Greek city that sank at night in the winter of 373 BC. The city was located in Achaea, Northern Peloponnesos, two kilometres from the Corinthian Gulf. The related city of Boura was located nearby...
					Hellas; Greece Greece Greece , officially the Hellenic Republic , is a country in southeastern Europe, situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula....
					Hellespont Hellespont Hellespont was the ancient name of the narrow strait, now known by the modern European term 'the Dardanelles'. It was so called from Helle, the daughter of Athamas, who was drowned here in the mythology of the Golden...
					Emporium Emporium Emporium is a term used for a store selling a wide variety of goods, and for marketplaces or trading centres in ancient cities... ; Empúries Empúries Empúries is a town on the Mediterranean coast of the Catalan comarca of Alt Empordà . It was founded in 575 BC by Greek colonists from Phocaea with the name of Εμπόριον...
					Epidamnus; Dyrrhachium; Durrës Durrës Durrës is the second-largest city of Albania. It is the most ancient and one of the most economically important cities of Albania. It is located on the central Albanian coast, about west of the capital Tirana. It is situated at one of the narrower points of the Adriatic Sea, opposite the Italian...
					Epidaurus Epidaurus Epidaurus was a small city in ancient Greece, at the Saronic Gulf. The modern town Epidavros , part of the prefecture of Argolis, was built near the ancient site.-History:...
					Heptanese
					Eretria Eretria Eretria was a polis in Ancient Greece, located on the western coast of the island of Euboea , south of Chalcis , facing the coast of Attica across the narrow Euboian Gulf. Eretria was an important Greek polis in the 6th/5th century BC. However, it lost its importance already in antiquity...
					Erineus
					Mercury Mercury (planet) For the liquid metallic element, see Mercury .Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the Solar System, orbiting the Sun once every 87.969 days. The orbit of Mercury has the highest eccentricity of all the Solar System planets, and it has the smallest axial tilt. It completes three...
					Hermione Ermioni Ermioni is a small town and a popular tourist resort in the Peloponnese, Greece. It is on a very small out-cropping of the land facing the island of Hydra. You can reach Ermioni within two hours from Athens by Hydrofoil. Ermioni is also the same name of the province but its capital lies to the...
					Hermus Hermus In Greek mythology Hermus is the god of the river Hermus , located in Aegean region of Lydia . Like most of the river-gods, he is the son of Oceanus and Tethys. He was the father of the Lydian nymphs.----...
					Hermoupolis
					Red Sea Red Sea The Red Sea is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. The connection to the ocean is in the south through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. In the north, there is the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez,...
					Erythrae Erythrae Erythrae or Erythrai later Litri, was one of the twelve Ionian cities of Asia Minor, situated 22 km north-east of the port of Cyssus , on a small peninsula stretching into the Bay of Erythrae, at an equal distance from the mountains Mimas and Corycus, and directly opposite the island of Chios.In... ; Litri
					Erythraea; Eritrea Eritrea Eritrea , officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa. It is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast. The east and northeast of the country have an extensive coastline on the Red Sea, directly across from Saudi Arabia and Yemen...
					Erymanthus Erymanthus Erymanthus or Erymanthos , on the river and the mountain: also translated as Erimanthos and with the y or an i accented may refer to:Erymanthos RiverErymanthian Boar*Mount Erymanthos...
					Eryx Eryx (Sicily) Eryx , was an ancient city and a mountain in the west of Sicily, about 10 km from Drepana , and 3 km from the sea-coast... ; Erice Erice Erice is a historic town in the province of Trapani in Sicily, Italy.Erice is located on top of Mount Erice, at around 750m above sea level, overlooking the city of Trapani, the low western coast towards Marsala, the dramatic Punta del Saraceno and Capo san Vito to the north-east, and the Aegadian...
					Euboea Euboea For the mythological figure, see Euboea Euboea is the second largest Greek island in area and population, after Crete. It is separated from the mainland of Greece by the narrow Euripus Strait...
					Evenus Evenus The Evinos, Evenus, or Euenos is a river in Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece. It rises in the mountains near Artotina, and empties 92 km later into the north side of the Gulf of Patras near Krioneri, east of the Messolonghi lagoon.-Mythology:...
					Euxine Sea
					Eurymedon Eurymedon River Köprüçay, ancient Eurymedon is a river that is situated in Antalya Province, Turkey, and empties into the Mediterranean.... ; Köprüçay
					Euripus
					Eurytania
					Euromus Euromus Euromus – also, Eunomus and Eunomos; earlier Kyromus and Hyromus – was an ancient city in Caria, Anatolia; the ruins are approximately 4 km southeast of Selimiye and 12 km northwest of Milas , Muğla Province, Turkey. Probably dating from the sixth century BC, Euromus was a member of...
					Europe Europe Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian Sea, the Caucasus Mountains , and the Black Sea to the southeast... ; Europa Europa (moon) Europa is the sixth moon of the planet Jupiter. Europa was discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei , and named after a mythical Phoenician noblewoman, Europa, who was courted by Zeus and became the queen of Crete...
					Eurotas
					Euphrates Euphrates The Euphrates is the longest and historically one of the most important rivers of Southwest Asia. Together with the Tigris, the Euphrates is one of the two defining rivers of Mesopotamia...
					Ephesus Ephesus Ephesus was an ancient Roman and Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia, near present-day Selçuk, Izmir Province, Turkey. It was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League during the Classical Greek period.... ; Selçuk Selçuk Selçuk is the central town of Selçuk district, İzmir Province in Turkey, northeast of Kuşadası, northeast of Ephesus. Its original name was Ayios Theologos , from which the Ottoman Turkish name Ayasluğ is derived. In 1914 it was renamed Selçuk, after the Seljuk Turks who settled in the region in...
					Echinades Echinades The Echinades are a group of islands in the Ionian Islands, off the coast of Acarnania, Greece. Also transliterated Ehinades – or, per Homer, Echinae , informally the Oxeiae , and during the Venician occupation, the Kurtzolári –Several of the islands have been joined to the mainland by...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Zab Zab Zab or ZAB may refer to:Two rivers that flow through Iran, Iraq and Turkey to become the two principal tributaries of the Tigris:Great Zab*Little Zab...
					Zancle; Messina
					Zacynthus; Zakynthos Zakynthos Zakynthos , the third largest of the Ionian Islands, covers an area of and its coastline is roughly in length. The island is named after Zakynthos, the son of a legendary Arcadian chief Dardanus. The name, like all similar names ending in -nthos, is pre-Mycenaean or Pelasgian in origin... ; Zante
					Zeugma Zeugma (city) Zeugma is an ancient city of Commagene; currently located in the Gaziantep Province of Turkey . It is a historical settlement which is considered among the four most important settlement areas under the reign of the kingdom of Commagene...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Igoumenitsa Igoumenitsa Igoumenitsa , is a coastal city in northwestern Greece. It is the capital of the prefecture Thesprotia. Its original ancient name used to be Titani....
					Edoni Edoni The Edoni were a Thracian people who dwelt mostly between the Nestus and the Strymon rivers in southern Thrace, but also once dwelt west of the Strymon at least as far as the Axios. They inhabited the region of Mygdonia before the Macedonians drove them out. There were a number of Edonian towns,... s
					Sun Sun The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System. The Earth and other matter orbit the Sun, which by itself accounts for about 99.86% of the Solar System's mass....
					Heliopolis Heliopolis Heliopolis, meaning "sun city" in Ancient Greek, can refer toHeliopolis , the ancient city in EgyptHeliopolis , a suburb in modern Cairo, Egypt*Heliopolis style, the architectural style of the modern Heliopolis Cairo suburb...
					Elis Elis Elis, or Eleia is an ancient district, that corresponds with the modern Ilia Prefecture...
					Elysium Elysium In Greek mythology, Elysium was a section of the Underworld...
					Hemathia
					United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
					United Kingdom United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe. It is an island country, spanning an archipelago including Great Britain, the northeastern part of Ireland, and many small islands...
					Epirus Epirus (region) Epirus is a geographical and historical region of Greece in southeastern Europe, currently divided between the periphery of Epirus in Greece and the prefectures of Gjirokastër, Vlorë, Berat, and Korçë in southern Albania.-Name & Etymology:...
					Heraea
					Herculaneum Herculaneum thumb\|240px\|The towns and villages under the likely pyroclastic cloud of the [[Mt Vesuvius]] 79 AD eruption. Herculaneum is visible along the northwestern edge of the shadowed area... ; Ercolano Ercolano Ercolano is a town and commune in the province of Naples, Campania . It lies at the western foot of Mount Vesuvius, on the Gulf of Naples, just southeast of the city of Naples. The medieval town of Resina was built on the lava stream left by the eruption of Vesuvius that destroyed the ancient city...
					Heraclea Heraclea -Island:* Heraclea was the name of one of the Cyclades, between Naxos and IslandIos, today called Iraklia or Irakleia, and bears traces of a Greek township with temples to Tyche and Zeus Lophites-Ancient cities:... ; Ereğli Eregli Ereğli is a town and district of Konya Province in the Central Anatolia region of Turkey. According to 2000 census, the population of the district is 126,117 of which 82,633 live in the town of Ereğli.-History:...
					Heraklion Heraklion Heraklion or Iraklion , is the largest city and capital of Crete. It is also the fourth largest city in Greece. Its name is also spelled Herakleion, a transliteration of the ancient Greek and Katharevousa name, , or Iraklio, among other variants...
					Eridanus Eridanos (mythology) The river Eridanos is a river mentioned in Greek mythology. Virgil considered it one of the rivers of Hades in his Aeneid VI, 659.-Ancient references:... ; Padus; Po Po River The Po is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Thasos Thasos Thasos or Thassos is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea, close to the coast of Thrace and the plain of the river Nestos but geographically part of Macedonia.-Prehistory:...
					Thapsacus Thapsacus Thapsacus , meaning ford or passage) was an ancient town along the western bank of the Euphrates river that would now lie in modern Syria or Turkey. Thapsacus was the Greek and Roman name for the town...
					Thapsus Thapsus Thapsus was an ancient city in what is modern day Tunisia. Its ruins exist at Ras Dimas near Bekalta, approximately 200 km southeast of Carthage. Originally founded by Phoenicians, it served as a marketplace on the coast of the province Byzacena in Africa Propria...
					Theangela; Etrim
					Theodosia Theodosia Feodosiya is a port and resort city in Crimea, Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast. The name is sometimes spelled as Feodosia οr Theodosia, according to transliteration from the .- History :...
					Therma Therma Therma or Thermē was a Greek city founded by Eretrians or Corinthians in late 7th century BC in ancient Mygdonia , situated at the northeastern extremity of a great gulf of the Aegean Sea, the Thermaic Gulf...
					Thermopylae Thermopylae Thermopylae is a location in Greece where a narrow coastal passage existed in antiquity...
					Thermodon Thermodon The Terme River is in the border of Terme district, located in central northern Turkey between the cities of Ordu and Samsun. The river flows about 50 km east of the coastal city Samsun into the Black Sea.... ; Terme
					Thespiae Thespiae Thespiae was an ancient Greek city in Boeotia. It stood on level ground commanded by the low range of hills which runs eastward from the foot of Mount Helicon to Thebes. According to Pausanias, the deity most worshipped at Thespiae was Eros, whose primitive image was an unwrought stone...
					Thesprotis; Thesprotia Thesprotia Thesprotia is one of the prefectures of Greece in the periphery of Epirus. Its capital is Igoumenitsa. Thesprotia is bounded by Albania to the north, the prefecture of Ioannina to the east and Preveza prefecture in the south. It is one of the smallest Greek prefectures in terms of area and...
					Thessaly Thessaly Thessaly is one of the 13 peripheries of Greece, and is further sub-divided into 4 prefectures. The capital of the periphery and traditional geographical region is Larissa. Together with the regions of Macedonia and Thrace, it is often referred to unofficially as Northern Greece...
					Salonica; Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Thessaloniki , Thessalonica, or Salonica is the second-largest city in Greece and the capital of the Greek region of Macedonia. It is honorarily called the Συμπρωτεύουσα Symprotevousa of Greece, as it was once called the συμβασιλεύουσα symvasilevousa of the Byzantine Empire...
					Thebes Thebes, Greece Thebes is a city in Greece, situated to the north of the Cithaeron range, which divides Boeotia from Attica, and on the southern edge of the Boeotian plain. It played an important role in Greek myth, as the site of the stories of Cadmus, Oedipus, Dionysus and others...
					Thera
					Therasia Therasia Therasia, also known as Thirasía , is a small Greek island west of Santorini in the Cyclades. The population was 268 inhabitants at the 2001 census. It has a land area of 9.299 km². The island is part of the community of Oia...
					Thisbae
					Thurii Thurii Thurii – Greek: , called also by some Latin writers and by Ptolemy, Thurium , for a time also Copia and Copiae and sometimes written as Turios; – was a city of Magna Graecia, situated on the Tarentine gulf, within a short distance of the site of Sybaris, of which it may be considered...
					Thrace Thrace Thrace is a historical and geographic area in southeast Europe. As a geographical concept, Thrace designates a region bounded on the north by the Balkan Mountains, on the south by the Rhodope Mountains and the Aegean Sea and on the east by the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara... ; Trakya; Trakija
					Thria Thria Thria is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.-References:*...
					Thymaina Thymaina Thymaina is a small Greek island in the Samos Prefecture, in the eastern Aegean Sea. Thymaina is located just west of Fournoi Korseon and is administratively a part of its municipality. Its name is said to be derived from the thyme that grows throughout the island. The population of Thymaina is...
					Thymbra Thymbra Thymbra or Thymbre was a town in the Troad, near Troy. The second of the six gates of Troy was named after it, according to John Lydgate.The location is about five miles from present day Hissarlik, the site of the present archeological excavations....
					Thynia Thynia In the ancient world, Thynia was a region of Asia Minor adjacent to Bithynia. It was occupied by the Thyni, a Thracian people who came from Thrace....
					Thyrea Thyrea Thyrea was an ancient Greek region, and city in the Peloponnese. It was in modern day Arcadia prefecture, North Kynouria municipality, northwest of Astros....

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Ialyssos
					Janiculum Janiculum Janiculum is a hill in western Rome. Although the second-tallest hill , in the contemporary city of Rome, the Janiculum does not figure among the proverbial Seven Hills of Rome, being west of the Tiber and outside the boundaries of the ancient city.-Sights:The Janiculum is one of the best... ; Gianicolo
					Iapygia; Salento Salento Salento is the south-eastern extremity of the Apulia region of Italy. It is a sub-peninsula of the main Italian peninsula, sometimes described as the "heel" of the Italian "boot"...
					Iberia Iberian Peninsula The Iberian Peninsula, or Iberia, is located in the extreme southwest of Europe and includes modern-day Spain, Portugal, Andorra and Gibraltar and a very small area of France. It is the westernmost of the three major southern European peninsulas—the Iberian, Italian, and Balkan peninsulas... ; Iberia Caucasian Iberia Iberia , also known as Iveria , was a name given by the ancient Greeks and Romans to the ancient Georgian kingdom of Kartli , corresponding roughly to the eastern and southern parts of the present day Georgia...
					Ida Ida Ida or IDA can refer to:* Ida , a female name-Acronyms:* Danish Society of Engineers , an association for engineers and others in technology*I.D.A...
					Edom Edom Edom is a name given to Esau in the Hebrew Bible, as well as to the nation descending from him. The nation's name in Assyrian was Udumi; in Syriac, ܐܕܘܡ; in Greek, Ἰδουμαία ; in Latin, Idumæa or Idumea.... ; Idumaea
					Vulcano Vulcano thumb\| The Gran Cratere. A sense of scale is provided by the tourist visible near the centre of the crater.thumb\|right\|250px\|View of Vulcano from the island of Lipari. The green islet centre left is Vulcanello, which is connected to Vulcano by an isthmus...
					Jericho Jericho Jericho is a city located near the Jordan River in the West Bank of the Palestinian Territories. It is the capital of the Jericho Governorate, and has a population of over 20,000 Palestinians. Situated well below sea level on an east-west route north of the Dead Sea, Jericho is the lowest...
					Hibernia Hibernia Hibernia is the Classical Latin name for the island of Ireland. The name Hibernia was taken from Greek geographical accounts. During his exploration of northwest Europe , Pytheas of Massilia called the island Ierne... ; Ireland Ireland Ireland is the third-largest island in Europe and the twentieth-largest island in the world. It lies to the north-west of continental Europe and is surrounded by hundreds of islands and islets. To the east of Ireland, separated by the Irish Sea, is the island of Great Britain...
					Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its largest city in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if disputed East Jerusalem is included...
					Jerusalem Jerusalem Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its largest city in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if disputed East Jerusalem is included...
					Ithaca Ithaca Ithaca or Ithaka is an island located in the Ionian Sea, in Greece, with an area of 45 square miles and a little more than three thousand inhabitants. It is an independent municipality of the Kefallinia Prefecture, and lies off the northeast coast of Kefalonia...
					Ithome Ithome Mount Ithome is a mountain in Messenia, Greece that rises to about 800 m. As the most defensible point in the surrounding territory, it was the center of Messenian resistance during the Second Messenian War in the 6th century BC. Ithome was also the center of the Helot revolt in 463 BC...
					Icaria Icaria Icaria, also spelled Ikaria , locally Nikaria or Nicaria , ancient name: Doliche , is a Greek island 10 nautical miles southwest of Samos. It derived its name from Icarus, the son of Daedalus in Greek mythology, who fell into the sea nearby.-History:Icaria has been inhabited since at least 7000 B.C...
					Iconium; Konya Konya Konya is a city in the Central Anatolia Region of Turkey. It is the capital of the Konya Province, and had a city population of 980,973 in 2008 while the provincial population was 1,959,082 in the same year.-Etymology:Konya, also spelled in some historic English texts as Konia or Koniah, was known...
					Ilium Troy Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer... ; Troy Troy Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer...
					Ilissus
					Illyria Illyria Illyria was in Classical antiquity a region in the western part of today's Balkan Peninsula, inhabited by the Illyrians, a heterogeneous coalition of tribes, about whom very little is known, though a number of them are assumed to have been united by a common Illyrian language.Illyria and the...
					Imbros Imbros Imbros, officially referred to as Gökçeada in Turkey , is the largest island of Turkey, part of Çanakkale Province. It is located at the entrance of Saros Bay in the northern Aegean Sea, also the westernmost point of Turkey... ; Gökçeada
					Himera Himera thumb\|250px\|Remains of the Temple of Victory.thumb\|250px\|Ideal reconstruction of the Temple of Victory.Himera , was an important ancient Greek city of Sicily, situated on the north coast of the island, at the mouth of the river of the same name , between Panormus and Cephaloedium...
					India India India, officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country, and the most populous democracy in the world. Bounded by the Indian Ocean on the south, the Arabian Sea on the west, and the Bay of Bengal... ; Indies Indies The Indies is a term used to describe the lands of South and Southeast Asia, occupying all of the present Indian Union, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, the Maldives and also Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Brunei, Singapore, the Philippines, East Timor, Malaysia and Indonesia...
					Indonesia Indonesia The Republic of Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17,508 islands. With an estimated population of around 237 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, with the world's largest population of Muslims.Indonesia is a republic, with an...
					Ionian Islands Ionian Islands The Ionian Islands are a group of islands in Greece. They are traditionally called "Eptanisa", i.e...
					Ios Ios (Island) Ios is a Greek island in the Cyclades group in the Aegean Sea. Ios is a hilly island with cliffs down to the sea on most sides, situated halfway between Naxos and Santorini. It is about 18 km long and 10 km wide, with an area of about 109 km² . Population was 1,838 in 2001...
					Judaea Judaea Judaea can refer to:* The land of Judea and previous Kingdom of Judah * The Roman province historians refer to as Iudaea province...
					Isthmus Isthmus An isthmus is a narrow strip of land connecting two larger land areas. Of note, the Isthmus of Panama connects the continents of North and South America , and the Isthmus of Suez in Egypt connects Africa and Asia .Canals are often built on isthmuses where they may be particularly advantageous to...
					Ismenus
					Spain Spain Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain , is a country located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula.The Spanish constitution does not establish any official denomination of the country, even though España , Estado español and Nación española are used interchangeably... ; España España España is Spanish for "Spain", and may refer to:* Alfonso XIII, a battleship that served in the Spanish Navy from 1915 to 1937 and was renamed España in 1931.* España, a battleship that served in the Spanish Navy from 1913 to 1923....
					Israel Israel Israel officially the State of Israel , is a developed state in Western Asia located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its...
					Issus Issus Issus can refer to:* Battle of Issus, in 333 BC, in which Alexander the Great beat Darius III** Issus , an ancient settlement located in the modern Turkish Province of Hatay, near the battle...
					Istria Istria Croatian Istria , formerly Histria , is the largest peninsula in the Adriatic Sea. The peninsula is located at the head of the Adriatic between the Gulf of Trieste and the Bay of Kvarner...
					Istone
					Italy Italy Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia. Italy shares its northern, Alpine boundary with France, Switzerland, Austria and Slovenia...
					Io Io (moon) Io is the innermost of the four Galilean moons of the planet Jupiter and, with a diameter of 3,642 kilometres, the fourth-largest moon in the Solar System. It was named after Io, a priestess of Hera who became one of the lovers of Zeus.With over 400 active volcanoes, Io is the most...
					Ioannina Ioannina Ioannina is a city of Epirus, north-western Greece, with a metropolitan population of approximately 100,000, and lies at an elevation of 600 metres above sea level. It is the capital of Ioannina Prefecture and of Epirus, lying on the western side of lake Pamvotis...
					Johannesburg Johannesburg Johannesburg also known as Jozi or Jo'burg, is the largest city in South Africa. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...
					Iolcos Iolcos Iolcos was an ancient city in Thessaly, central-eastern Greece . Nowadays there is a small village named Iolcos , suburb of Volos, which has a school and a small square...
					Ionia Ionia Ionia is an ancient region of central coastal Anatolia in present-day Turkey, the region nearest İzmir, which was historically Smyrna. It consisted of the northernmost territories of the Ionian League of Greek settlements...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Kavala Kavala Kavala , is the second largest city in northern Greece, the principal seaport of eastern Macedonia and the capital of Kavala prefecture. It is situated on the Bay of Kavala, across from the island of Thasos.-Antiquity:...
					Cadmea Cadmea The Cadmea, or Cadmeia , was the citadel of ancient Thebes, Greece, named after the legendary founder of Thebes, Cadmus. The area is thought to have been settled since at least the early Bronze Age, although the history of settlement can only be reliably dated from the late Mycenaean period The...
					Kazakhstan Kazakhstan Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a country situated in Eurasia that is ranked as the ninth largest country in the world. It is also the world's largest landlocked country. Its territory of 2,727,300 km² is greater than Western Europe...
					Caicus Caicus Bakırçay is the ancient name of a river of Asia Minor that rises in the Temnus mountains and flows through Lydia, Mysia, and Aeolis before it debouches into the Elatic Gulf. To the Hittites, it was the Seha river... ; Bakırçay
					Caesarea
					Calabria Calabria Calabria , in antiquity known as Bruttium, is a region in southern Italy, south of Naples, located at the "toe" of the Italian peninsula. It is bounded to the north by the region of Basilicata, to the south-west by the region of Sicily, to the west by the Tyrrhenian Sea, and to the east by the...
					Kalamata Kalamata Kalamata is the second-largest city of the Peloponnese in southern Greece. The capital and chief port of the Messenia prefecture, it lies along the Nedon River at the head of the Messenian Gulf...
					Caledonia Caledonia Caledonia is the Latin name given by the Romans to the land in today's Scotland north of their province of Britannia, beyond the frontier of their empire... ; Scotland Scotland Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
					Gallipoli Gallipoli The Gallipoli peninsula is located in Turkish Thrace, the European part of Turkey, with the Aegean Sea to the west and the Dardanelles straits to the east... ; Gelibolu Gelibolu Gelibolu in modern Turkish, , is the name of a town and a district of Çanakkale Province, Turkey, located on the Gallipoli peninsula in the European part of Turkey. Gelibolu is well-known for sardine canning....
					Callisto Callisto (moon) Callisto is a moon of the planet Jupiter, discovered in 1610 by Galileo Galilei. It is the third-largest moon in the Solar System and the second largest in the Jovian system, after Ganymede. Callisto has about 99% the diameter of the planet Mercury but only about a third of its mass...
					Gibraltar Gibraltar Gibraltar is a self-governing British overseas territory located on the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula and Europe at the entrance of the Mediterranean overlooking the Strait of Gibraltar. The territory covers and shares a land border with Spain to the north...
					Calydon Calydon Calydon was an ancient Greek city in Aetolia, situated on the west bank of the river Evenus. According to Greek mythology, the city took its name from its founder Calydon, son of Aetolus. Close to the city stood Mount Zygos, the slopes of which provided the setting for the hunt of the Calydonian...
					Calymnus; Kalymnos Kalymnos Kalymnos, is a Greek island and municipality in the southeastern Aegean Sea. It belongs to the Dodecanese and is located to the west of the peninsula of Bodrum , between the islands of Kos and Leros : the latter is linked to it through a series of islets...
					Camarina Camarina thumb\|240px\|Remaines of the Temple of Athena.Kamarina is an ancient city of Sicily, southern Italy, situated on the south coast, about 27 kilometers South East of Gela . It was founded by Syracuse in 599 BC, but destroyed by the mother city in 552 BC. Its remains are today in the municipality of...
					Camirus; Kameiros Kameiros Kameiros was a city on the island of Rhodes, Greece, lying on a peninsula on the northwest coast of the island. It was the heart of an agricultural region, and constituted one of three city states on Rhodes. Kameiros nowadays is the name of a municipality stretching inland into the north-central...
					Campania Campania Campania is a region of southern Italy in Europe. The region has a population of around 5.8 million people, making it the second-most-populous region of Italy; its total area of 13,595 km² makes it the most densely populated region in the country...
					Canberra Canberra Canberra is the capital city of Australia. With a population of over 345,000, it is Australia's largest inland city and the eighth largest Australian city overall. The city is located at the northern end of the Australian Capital Territory, south-west of Sydney, and north-east of Melbourne...
					Canada Canada Canada is a country occupying most of northern North America, extending from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
					Cannae Cannae Cannae is an ancient village of the Apulia region of south east Italy. It is a frazione of the comune of Barletta.-Geography:It is situated near the river Aufidus , on a hill on the right Cannae (mod. Canne della Battaglia) is an ancient village of the Apulia region of south east Italy. It is a... ; Canne della Battaglia
					Canusium; Canosa Canosa Canosa di Puglia is a town and comune in Apulia in southern Italy, between Bari and Foggia, located in the province of Bari, not far from the position on the Ofanto River where the Romans found refuge after the defeat of Cannæ...
					Canopus Canopus, Egypt Canopus was an Ancient Egyptian coastal town, located in the Nile Delta. Its site is in the eastern outskirts of modern-day Alexandria, around 25 kilometres from the centre of that city....
					Cappadocia Cappadocia Cappadocia is a region in central Turkey, largely in Nevşehir Province ....
					Capua Capua Capua is a city in the province of Caserta, Campania, southern Italy, situated 25 km north of Naples, on the northeastern edge of the Campanian plain. The city is often mistaken for Santa Maria Capua Vetere: the remains of the ancient Capua are effectively located in the latter commune's...
					Karditsa Karditsa Karditsa is a city in western Thessaly in mainland Greece. The city of Karditsa is the capital of Karditsa Prefecture.Inhabitation is attested from 9000 BCE. Karditsa ls linked with GR-30, the road to Karpenisi, and the road to Palamas and Larissa...
					Caria Caria Caria was a region of western Anatolia extending along the coast from mid-Ionia south to Lycia and east to Phrygia. The Ionian and Dorian Greeks colonized the west of it and joined the Carian population in forming Greek-dominated states there...
					Carpathus; Karpathos Karpathos Karpathos is the second largest of the Greek Dodecanese islands, in the southeastern Aegean Sea. The island is comprised of the municipality of Karpathos plus the community of Olympos. Part of Olympos also extends north to the neighboring Saria Island...
					Carrhae; Harran Harran Harran, also known as Carrhae, is a district of Şanlıurfa Province in the southeast of Turkey.A very ancient city which was a major Mesopotamian commercial, cultural, and religious center, Harran is a valuable archaeological site...
					Caryanda
					Carystus Carystus Carystus was an ancient city-state on Euboea. In the Iliad it is controlled by the Abantes. By the time of Thucydides it was inhabited by Dryopians.- Persian War :...
					Carthage Carthage Carthage refers both to an ancient city in present-day Tunisia, and a modern-day suburb of Tunis. The civilization that developed within the city's sphere of influence is referred to as Punic or Carthaginian...
					Kasos Kasos Kasos is a Greek island municipality in the Dodecanese. It is the southernmost island in the Aegean Sea. As of 2001, its population was 990. The island has been called in , . -Geography:...
					Caspian Sea Caspian Sea The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. It has a surface area of 371,000 square kilometres and a volume of 78,200 cubic kilometres... ; Qazvin Qazvin Qazvin is the largest city and capital of the Province of Qazvin in Iran with an estimated population of 331,409 in 2005...
					Castelrosso; Kastellorizo
					Kastoria Kastoria Kastoria is a city in northern Greece in the periphery of West Macedonia. It is the capital of Kastoria Prefecture, located at . The town's population is estimated as some 20,660 people . It is situated on a promontory on the western shore of Lake Orestiada, in a valley surrounded by limestone...
					Catania Catania Catania is an Italian city on the east coast of Sicily facing the Ionian Sea, between Messina and Syracuse...
					Caucasus Caucasus The Caucasus or Caucas is a geopolitical region between at the border of Europe and Asia. It is home to the Caucasus Mountains, including Europe's highest mountain ....
					Caunus
					Cayster; Küçük Menderes
					Cenchrea; Kechries Kechries Kechries is a community in the municipality of Corinth in Corinthia in Greece...
					Cape Town Cape Town Cape Town is the second most populous city in South Africa, and the largest in land area, forming part of the City of Cape Town metropolitan municipality. It is the provincial capital of the Western Cape, as well as the legislative capital of South Africa, where the National Parliament and many...
					Celaenae Celaenae Celaenae or Kelainai , was an ancient city of Phrygia and capital of the Persian satrapy of Greater Phrygia, near the source of the Maeander River in what is today west central Turkey, and was situated on the great trade route to the East....
					Ceramus Ceramus Ceramus or Keramos was a city on the north coast of the Ceramic Gulf—named for this city—in Caria, in southwest Asia Minor; its ruins can be found outside the modern village of Ören, Muğla Province, Turkey....
					Cerasus Cerasus - Places :* Giresun, provincial capital of Giresun Province in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey... ; Kerasunt; Giresun Giresun Giresun is the provincial capital of Giresun Province in the Black Sea Region of northeastern Turkey, about west of the city of Trabzon.-Etymology:...
					Corcyra; Corfu Corfu Corfu is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea. It is the second largest of the Ionian Islands, and its northern part lies off the coast of Sarandë, Albania from which it is separated by straits varying in breadth from 3 to 23 km , including one near ancient Butrint, while its southern part lies...
					Cephallenia; Kefalonia Kefalonia The island of Kefalonia, also known as Cephallenia, Cephallonia, Kefallinia, or Kefallonia , is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece, with an area of 350 sq. miles...
					Ceos; Kea Kea (island) Kea , also known as Gia or Tzia , Zea, and, in Antiquity, Keos , is an island of the Cyclades archipelago, in the Aegean Sea, in Greece. Its capital, Ioulis, is inland at a high altitude and is considered quite picturesque...
					Cephissus Cephissus Cephissus or Cephisus is the name of several rivers in Greece.* Cephissus , a river arising in Phocis and flowing through northern Boeotia into Lake Copais...
					Kiev Kiev Kiev or Kyiv , is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300... ; Kyiv
					Cithaeron
					Cilicia Cilicia In antiquity, Cilicia now known as Çukurova, was a commonly used name of the south coastal region of Asia Minor south of the central Anatolian plateau. It existed as a political entity from Hittite times into the Byzantine empire...
					Cilcis
					Cimmeria Cimmeria * Cimmerians, an ancient people who lived in the south of modern-day Ukraine and Russia in the 8th and 7th century BC* Cimmeria, an ancient name of the Crimea, a peninsula in the North part of Black Sea, or the Eastern part thereof...
					Kimolos Kimolos Kimolos is a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, belonging to the islands group of Cyclades, located on the SW tip of them, near the bigger island of Milos...
					Citium; Kittim Kittim Kittim in the genealogy of Genesis 10 in the Hebrew Bible, is the son of Javan, the grandson of Japheth, and Noah's great-grandson.... ; Larnaca Larnaca Larnaca, is a city of the Republic of Cyprus situated on the southern coast of Cyprus. It has a population of 72,000 and is the island's second largest commercial port and an important tourist resort...
					Clazomenae Clazomenae Klazomenai was an ancient Greek city of Ionia and a member of the Ionian Dodecapolis , it was one of the first cities to issue silver coinage.-Location:Klazomenai is located in modern Urla on the western coast of... ; Urla Iskele
					Clarus Clarus Clarus in the territory of Colophon in the Ionian coast of Asia Minor was a much-revered, much-famed cult center described by Pausanias ....
					Cleonae Cleonae Cleonae or Cleonæ or Kleonai may refer to any of several ancient cities, including:Archaies Kleones formerly Cleonae, in Argolis, now in Corinthia prefecture, GreeceCleonae on Mount Athos...
					Clusium Clusium Clusium was an ancient city in Italy, one of several found at the site. The current municipality of Chiusi partly overlaps this Roman walled city. The Roman city remodeled an earlier Etruscan city, Clevsin, found in the territory of a prehistoric culture, possibly also Etruscan or proto-Etruscan...
					Cnidus; Knidos Knidos Knidos or Cnidus was an ancient Greek city of Caria, part of the Dorian Hexapolis. It was situated on the Datça peninsula, which forms the southern side of the Sinus Ceramicus or Gulf of Gökova. By the fourth century BCE, Knidos was located at the site of modern Tekir, opposite Triopion Island... ; Tekir
					Cnossus; Knossos Knossos Knossos , also known as Labyrinth, or Knossos Palace, is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete and probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan civilization and culture. The palace appears as a maze of workrooms, living spaces, and store rooms close to a central square...
					Kozani Kozani Kozani is a city in northern Greece, capital of Kozani Prefecture and of West Macedonia periphery. It is located in the western part of Macedonia, in the northern part of the Aliakmonas river valley...
					Colossae Colossae Colossae or Colosse , was an ancient city of Phrygia, on the Lycus, which is a tributary of the Maeander River. It was situated about 12 miles above Laodicea, and near the great road from Ephesus to the Euphrates...
					Colophon Colophon Colophon was a city in the region of Lydia in antiquity dating from about the turn of the first millennium-BC. It was likely one the oldest of the twelve Ionian League cities, between Lebedos and Ephesus and its ruins are in the eponymously named modern region of Ionia.The city's name comes from... ; Değirmendere Degirmendere Değirmendere is a municipal town in Kocaeli of Turkey. Although there are other towns in Turkey under the name of Degirmendere, this particular one is located on the south coast of Izmit Bay. It has different districts named Yuzbasilar, Yukari Degirmendere and Kurucesme. Degirmendere lies between...
					Colchis Colchis In ancient geography, Colchis or Kolkhis was an ancient Georgian , state kingdom and region in the Western Georgia , which played an important role in the ethnic and cultural formation of the Georgian nation and its subgroups...
					Colonae
					Cologne Cologne Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants... ; Köln KOLN KOLN, digital channel 10, is the CBS affiliate in Lincoln, Nebraska. It operates a satellite station, KGIN, on digital channel 11 in Grand Island. KGIN repeats all KOLN programming, but airs separate commercials...
					Commagene
					Corduba; Córdoba Córdoba, Spain \|\|-\|\|-\|\|}Córdoba is a city in Andalusia, southern Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba. Located at 37.88° North, 4.77° West, on the Guadalquivir river, it was founded in ancient Roman times as Corduba by Claudius Marcellus...
					Corinth Corinth Corinth, or Korinth Corinth, or Korinth Corinth, or Korinth (Greek Κόρινθος, Kórinthos is a city in Greece. In antiquity it was a city-state, on the Isthmus of Corinth, the narrow stretch of land that joins the Peloponnesus to the mainland of Greece. To the west of the isthmus lies the Gulf of...
					Corsica Corsica Corsica is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
					Coronea
					Cunaxa
					Curium Kourion Kourion , also Curias or Latin: Curium, was a city in Cyprus, which endured from antiquity until the early Middle Ages. Kourion is situated on the south shores of the island to the west of the river Lycus , 16 M. P. from Amathus. , and was recorded by numerous ancient authors including Ptolemy...
					Cranaa; Athens Athens Athens , the capital and largest city of Greece, dominates the Attica periphery; as one of the world's oldest cities, its recorded history spans around 3,400 years....
					Crete Crete Crete is the largest of the Greek islands and the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea at 8,336 km²...
					Crimea Crimea Crimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is the only autonomous republic of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name.The territory of Crimea was conquered and controlled many times throughout its history...
					Saturn Saturn Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun and the second largest planet in the Solar System, after Jupiter. Saturn, along with Jupiter, Uranus and Neptune, is classified as a gas giant...
					Croton Croton Croton may refer to:In plants:Croton, a plant genus of the family EuphorbiaceaeCrotoneae, a tribe of the subfamily Crotonoideae*Codiaeum variegatum, a plant commonly called a "Croton"...
					Ctesiphon Ctesiphon Ctesiphon, the imperial capital of the Arsacids and of the Sassanids, was one of the great cities of ancient Mesopotamia.The ruins of the city are located on the east bank of the Tigris, across the river from the Hellenistic city of Seleucia. Today, the remains of both cities lie in Iraq,...
					Cydnus
					Cydonia Cydonia (Ancient Greece) Cydonia or Kydonia was an important ancient city-state on the northwest coast of the island of Crete. It is at the site of the modern-day Greek city of Chania...
					Cyzicus Cyzicus Cyzicus was an ancient town of Mysia in Anatolia, situated in Balıkesir Province on the shoreward side of the present peninsula of Kapu-Dagh , which is said to have been originally an island in the Sea of Marmara, and to have been artificially connected with the mainland in historic times.Now,...
					Cythera; Cerigo
					Cythnus; Kythnos Kythnos Kythnos or Kithnos is a Greek island and municipality in the Western Cyclades between Kea and Serifos. It is from the harbor of Piraeus. Kythnos is in area and has a coastline of about . It has more than 70 beaches, many of which are still inaccessible by road...
					Cyclades Cyclades The Cyclades are a Greek island group in the Aegean Sea, south-east of the mainland of Greece; and an administrative prefecture of Greece. They are one of the island groups which constitute the Aegean archipelago. The name refers to the islands around the sacred island of Delos...
					Cyllene
					Cuma Cuma Cuma and similar can mean:* CUMA is a name of frogman's rebreather made and designed in Canada* Canadian Urban Music Association: see Urban Music Association of Canada* Special:PrefixIndex/Cuma is a list of all pages whose name start with "Cuma"... ; Cyme Cyme Cyme or CYME may refer to:Cyme , an ancient Greek city on the east coast of the Aegean SeaKymi, an ancient Greek city on the west coast of the Aegean SeaMatane Airport A type of inflorescence on a plant... ; Cumae Cumae Cumae is an ancient Greek settlement lying to the northwest of Naples in the Italian region of Campania...
					Cynthus Cynthus Mount Cynthus is located on the isle of Delos, part of the Greek Cyclades.In Greek mythology, Leto gave birth to Apollo and Artemis on this island, having been shunned by Zeus' wife Hera who was extremely jealous of his liaison with Leto...
					Cynoscephalae
					Cynossema
					Cynuria
					Cyprus Cyprus Cyprus , officially the Republic of Cyprus , is a Eurasian island country situated in the eastern Mediterranean, south of Turkey and west of Syria and Lebanon.... ; Kıbrıs
					Cyrenaica Cyrenaica Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya and also an ex-province or state of the country in the pre-1963 administrative system. What used to be Cyrenaica in the old system is now divided up into several "shabiyat"...
					Cyrene Cyrene, Libya Cyrene was an ancient Greek colony in present-day Shahhat; Libya, the oldest and most important of the five Greek cities in the region. It gave eastern Libya the classical name Cyrenaica that it has retained to modern times.Cyrene lies in a lush valley in the Jebel Akhdar uplands...
					Cyrnus; Corsica Corsica Corsica is the fourth largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . It is located west of Italy, southeast of the French mainland, and north of the island of Sardinia....
					Cocytus Cocytus Cocytus or Kokytos, meaning "the river of wailing" , is a river in the underworld in Greek mythology. Cocytus flows into the river Acheron, across which dwells the underworld, the mythological abode of the dead. There are five rivers encircling Hades...
					Constantinople Constantinople Constantinople was the imperial capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire... ; Istanbul Istanbul Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey and fifth largest city proper in the world with a population of 12.6 million. Istanbul is also a megacity, as well as the cultural and financial centre of Turkey. The city covers 39 districts of the Istanbul province...
					Kos Kos Kos or Cos is a Greek island in the south Sporades group of the Dodecanese, next to the Gulf of Gökova/Cos. It measures by , and is from the coast of Bodrum, Turkey and the ancient region of Caria. The island has both fertile plains and mountainous highlands with a population of 30,947...
					Kardamena Kardamena Kardamena , is a small Greek town 7 km from Kos Island International Airport at Antimachia, situated mid-way along the south coast of the island of Kos. It lies within the municipality of Irakleides, in the Dodecanese Prefecture of Greece...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Lavinium Lavinium Lavinium was a port city of Latium, to the south of Rome, at a median distance between the Tiber river at Ostia and Anzio. The coastline then, as now, was a long strip of beach. Lavinium was on a hill at the southernmost edge of the Silva Laurentina, a dense laurel forest, and the northernmost...
					Labranda
					Lacedaemon
					Laconia Laconia Laconia , also known as Lacedaemonia, is a prefecture in Greece. Laconia has the legal status of a prefecture, with Sparti its administrative capital. Its main towns and cities are Amyclae, Areopolis, Gytheion, Molaoi, Monemvasia, Mystras, Neapoli and Sellasia...
					Lamia Lamia (city) Lamia is a city in central Greece. The city has a continuous history since Antiquity, and is today the capital of the prefecture of Phthiotis and periphery of Central Greece .-Name:...
					Lampsacus Lampsacus Lampsacus was an ancient Greek city strategically located on the eastern side of the Hellespont in the northern Troad. An inhabitant of Lampsacus was called a Lampsacene. The name has been transmitted in the nearby modern town of Lapseki.-History:Originally known as Pityusa or Pityussa , it was...
					Laodicea Laodicea - Other countries :* Laodicea , in Greece* Laodicea , in Iraq* Laodicea in Media, future site of Nahavand, Iran* Laodicea in Phoenicia, future site of Beirut, Lebanon-See also:* Laodicean Church, religious organization... ; Latakia Latakia Latakia or Latakiyah is the principal port city of Syria, as well as the capital of the Latakia Governorate. In addition to serving as a port, the city is a manufacturing center for surrounding agricultural towns and villages...
					Larissa Larissa Larissa is a city and the capital of the Thessaly periphery of Greece, and capital of the Larissa Prefecture. It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by rail with the port of Volos and with Thessaloniki and Athens...
					Larnaca Larnaca Larnaca, is a city of the Republic of Cyprus situated on the southern coast of Cyprus. It has a population of 72,000 and is the island's second largest commercial port and an important tourist resort...
					Laurium Laurium Laurium, Laurion, or Laureion is a town in southeastern part of Attica, Greece and is one of the southernmost and the seat of the municipality of Lavreotiki, famous in Classical antiquity for the silver mines which were one of the chief sources of...
					Lebedus Lebedus Lebedus-- the Latinized form of the original Greek name Lebedos-- was one of the Ionian colony cities , located between itself and Ephesus to the south...
					Loire Loire River The Loire is the longest river in France. With a length of , it drains an area of , which represents more than a fifth of France's land area...
					Lipsi
					Leontini; Lentini Lentini Lentini is a town in the Province of Syracuse, southeast Sicily .-History:...
					Lepreum Lepreum Lepreum was an Ancient Greek city-state in Triphylia, a district of Elis...
					Lerna Lerna In classical Greece, Lerna was a region of springs and a former lake near the east coast of the Peloponnesus, south of Argos. Its site near the village Mili at the Argolic Gulf is most famous as the lair of the Lernaean Hydra, the chthonic many-headed water snake, a creature of great antiquity...
					Leros Leros Leros is a Greek island and municipality in the Dodecanese prefecture in the southern Aegean Sea. It lies 317 km from Athens's port of Piraeus, from which it can be reached by an 11-hour ferry ride .-Geography:The island is 74 square kilometres and has a coastline of 71 km...
					Lesbos
					Lucania Lucania Lucania was an ancient district of southern Italy, extending from the Tyrrhenian Sea to the Gulf of Taranto. To the north it adjoined Campania, Samnium and Apulia, and to the south it was separated by a narrow isthmus from the district of Bruttium...
					Leucas Leucas Leucas may refer to:Leucas, a genus from the family Lamiaceae.Leucas, an English transliteration of the ancient Greek place name, Leukas .... ; Lefkada Lefkada Lefkada, or Leucas is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea on the west coast of Greece, connected to the mainland by a long causeway and floating bridge. The city of Lefkada, is situated on the northern part of the island, approximately 20 minutes by automobile away from Aktion National Airport...
					Leucetia; Paris Paris Paris is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
					Leuctra Leuctra Leuctra was a village in ancient Greece, in Boeotia, seven miles southwest of Thebes. It is primarily known today as the site of the important 371 BC Battle of Leuctra in which the Thebans, under Epaminondas, defeated the Spartans...
					Leucosia Nicosia Nicosia, known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city of Cyprus. Located on the River Pedieos and situated almost in the centre of the island, it is the seat of government as well as the main business centre... ; Lefkoşa Nicosia Nicosia, known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city of Cyprus. Located on the River Pedieos and situated almost in the centre of the island, it is the seat of government as well as the main business centre... ; Nicosia Nicosia Nicosia, known locally as Lefkosia , is the capital and largest city of Cyprus. Located on the River Pedieos and situated almost in the centre of the island, it is the seat of government as well as the main business centre...
					Lechaeum
					Lethe Lethe In Classical Greek, Lethe literally means "forgetfulness" or "concealment". It is related to the Greek word for "truth": a-lethe-ia , meaning "un-forgetfulness" or "un-concealment". In Greek mythology, Lethe is one of the several rivers of Hades: those who drank from it experienced complete...
					Lemnos Lemnos Lemnos or Limnos is an island in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Greek prefecture of Lesbos and has a considerable area, about 477 km². Lemnos is mostly flat , but the west, and especially the northwest part, is rough and mountainous...
					Lebanon Lebanon Lebanon , officially the Republic of LebanonRepublic of Lebanon is the most common term used by Lebanese government agencies... ; Lubnān
					Libya Libya Libya , officially the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya , is a country located in North Africa...
					Liburnia Liburnia Liburnia in ancient geography was the land of the Liburnians, a region along the northeastern Adriatic coast in Europe, which is today part of Croatia, whose borders shifted according to the extent of Liburnian dominance at a given time between 11th and 1st century BC.-Early Liburnia:Liburnia was...
					Liguria Liguria Liguria is a coastal region of north-western Italy, the third smallest of the Italian regions. Its capital is Genoa. It is a popular region with tourists for its beautiful beaches, picturesque little towns, and food.- Geography :...
					Lilybaeum; Marsala Marsala Marsala is a seaport city located in the Province of Trapani on the island of Sicily in Italy. The low coast on which it is situated is the westernmost point of the island. It is best known as the source of Marsala wine....
					Lindum Colonia Lindum Colonia Lindum Colonia was a town in the Roman province of Britannia. Today it is known as Lincoln, located in the English county of Lincolnshire.-Fort and name:... ; Lincoln Lincoln, Lincolnshire Lincoln is a cathedral city and county town of Lincolnshire, England.The non-metropolitan district of Lincoln has a population of around 101,000 - the 2001 census gave the entire urban area of Lincoln a population of 120,779...
					Lindos Lindos Lindos is a town and an archaeological site on the east coast of the Greek island of Rhodes, in the Dodecanese in southeastern Aegean Sea. It is about 55 km south of the town of Rhodes and its fine beaches make it a popular tourist and holiday destination...
					Lipara; Lipari Lipari Lipari is the largest of the Aeolian Islands in the Tyrrhenian Sea off the north coast of Sicily, and the name of the island's main town...
					Liri Liri The Liri is one of the principal rivers of central Italy, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea a little below Minturno under the name Garigliano.... s; Liri Liri The Liri is one of the principal rivers of central Italy, flowing into the Tyrrhenian Sea a little below Minturno under the name Garigliano....
					Locris Locris Locris was a region of ancient Greece, the homeland of the Locrians, made up of two districts...
					Locri Locri Locri is a town and comune in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. The name derives from the ancient Greek "Locris" .-History:...
					London London []London is the capital of England and the United Kingdom. It has been a major settlement for two millennia, and the history of London goes back to its founding by the Romans, when it was named Londinium. London's core, the ancient City of London, the 'square mile', retains its medieval boundaries...
					Lycabettus
					Lyceum Lyceum A Lyceum can bean educational institution , ora public hall used for cultural events like concerts.*Mount Lyceum...
					Lucca Lucca Lucca is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, situated on the river Serchio in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Lucca...
					Lydia Lydia Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian....
					Lycia Lycia Lycia was a region in Anatolia in what are now the provinces of Antalya and Muğla on the southern coast of Turkey. It was a federation of ancient cities in the region and later a province of the Roman Empire...
					Lycaonia Lycaonia In ancient geography, Lycaonia was a large region in the interior of Asia Minor, north of Mount Taurus. It was bounded on the east by Cappadocia, on the north by Galatia, on the west by Phrygia and Pisidia, while to the south it extended to the chain of Mount Taurus, where it bordered on the...
					Loryma Loryma Loryma is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Caria, in Asia Minor .-Town:Loryma is small fortified town and harbour on the coast of Caria, formerly in the Ottoman province of Smyrna , not far from Cape Cynossema, at the western extremity of the peninsula known as Rhodian...
					Lusitania Lusitania Lusitania was an ancient Roman province including approximately all of modern Portugal south of the Douro river and part of modern Spain . It was named after the Lusitani or Lusitanian people...

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Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Magnesia Magnesia Magnesia , deriving from the tribe name Magnetes, is the name of the southeastern area of Thessaly in central Greece. The modern prefecture was created in 1947 out of the Larissa prefecture. About 70% of the population live in the Greater Volos area which is the second-largest city in Thessaly...
					Maeander; Büyük Menderes
					Maenalus
					Maeonia; Lydia Lydia Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian....
					Maeotis; Sea of Azov Sea of Azov The Sea of Azov is the world's shallowest sea, linked by the Strait of Kerch to the Black Sea to the south. It is bounded on the north by Ukraine, on the east by Russia and on the west by the Crimean peninsula. The Don River flows into it.-Geology and bathymetry:The sea is long and wide and has...
					Macedon Macedon Macedonia or Macedon was an ancient kingdom, centered in the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula, bordered by Epirus to the west, Paionia to the north, the region of Thrace to the east and Thessaly to the south... ; Macedonia Macedonia (Greece) Macedonia is a geographical and historical region of Greece in southeastern Europe. Macedonia is the largest and second most populous Greek region...
					Malea Malea Malea may refer to:* Malea pilosa, a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae;* Malea , a genus of gastropod;* Cape Malea, one of the peninsulas in the southeast of the Peloponnese in Greece...
					Mantinea
					Marathon Marathon, Greece Marathon is an ancient Greek city-state, a contemporary town in Greece, the site of the battle of Marathon in 490 BC, in which the heavily outnumbered Athenian army defeated the Persians. The tumulus or burial mound Marathon (Demotic Greek: Μαραθώνας, Marathónas; Attic/ Katharevousa: , ) is an...
					Marakanda; Samarkand Samarkand Samarkand is the second-largest city in Uzbekistan and the capital of Samarqand Province. The city is most noted for its central position on the Silk Road between China and the West, and for being an Islamic centre for scholarly study. The Bibi-Khanym Mosque remains one of the city's most famous...
					Mariupol Mariupol Mariupol or, sometimes, Mariupolis , formerly known as Zhdanov , is a port city in southeastern Ukraine. It is located on the coast of the Azov Sea, at the mouth of the Kalmius River. Mariupol is the largest city in Priazovye - a geographical region around Azov Sea, divided by Russia and Ukraine -...
					Massalia; Massilia; Marseille Marseille Marseille , formerly known as Massalia , is the 2nd most populous French city as well as the oldest city in France...
					Mauritania Mauritania Mauritania , officially the Islamic Republic of Mauritania, is a country in northwest Africa. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the west, by Senegal on the southwest, by Mali on the east and southeast, by Algeria on the northeast, and by the Morocco-controlled Western Sahara on the northwest...
					Montenegro Montenegro Montenegro , is a country located in Southeastern Europe. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea to the south-west and is bordered by Croatia to the west, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the northwest, Serbia to the northeast, Kosovo to the east and Albania to the south...
					Great Wallachia Great Wallachia Great Wallachia , also Thessaly Wallachia, was a medieval state of the Aromanians , which included the mountains of Thessaly in Greece, the southern and central ranges of Pindus and extending over part of Macedonia.Anna Komnene in the second half of the eleventh century was the first author to...
					Magna Graecia Magna Graecia Magna Græcia is the name of the coastal areas of Southern Italy on the Tarentine Gulf that was extensively colonized by Greek settlers, especially the Achaean collonies of Tatentium, Crotone and Sybaris but also, more loosely, the cities of Cumae and Neopolis to the north...
					Megalopolis Megalopolis Megalopolis may refer to:* Megalopolis , an extensive metropolitan area or a long chain of continuous metropolitan areas....
					Meganissi
					Megara Megara Megara is an ancient city in Attica, Greece. It lies in the northern section of the Isthmus of Corinth opposite the island of Salamis, which belonged to Megara in archaic times, before being taken by Athens. Megara was one of the four districts of Attica, embodied in the four mythic sons of King...
					Megaris Megaris This is also the ancient Greek name of a small island off Naples, site of the Castel dell'Ovo.Megaris, a small but populous state of ancient Greece, west of Attica and north of Corinthia, whose inhabitants were adventurous seafarers, credited with deceitfulpropensities. The capital, Megara, famous...
					Megisti
					Mediolanum Mediolanum Mediolanum, the ancient Milan, was an important Celtic and then Roman centre of northern Italy. This article charts the history of the city from its settlement by the Insubres around 600 BC, through its conquest by the Romans and its development into a key centre of Western Christianity and capital... ; Milan Milan Milan in Italy, is the capital of the region of Lombardia and of the province of Milan. The city proper has a population of about 1.3 million, while the urban area is the fifth largest in the E.U. with an estimated population of 4.3 million...
					Methana Methana Methana , can refer to a town, a municipality, a volcano , and a peninsula located in the Piraeus Prefecture, in Greece in the eastern part of the Peloponnese peninsula, in the district of Loutropolis Methana . The town Methana , can refer to a town, a municipality, a volcano (the Methana...
					Methone Methone Methone can refer to:* Methone , one of the seven Alkyonides, daughters of the giant Alkyoneus in Greek mythologyMethone , a small moon of Saturn, discovered in 2004Methoni, Messenia, a town in the prefecture of Messenia, Greece...
					Melbourne Melbourne Melbourne is the capital city and most populous city of the State of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne city centre is the anchor of the larger geographical area and statistical division known as the Greater Melbourne metropolitan area – of which Melbourne is...
					Melita Malta Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed European country in the European Union. The Southern European island nation is an archipelago that includes the inhabited islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino, along with a number of smaller, uninhabited islands... ; Malta Malta Malta , officially the Republic of Malta , is a densely populated developed European country in the European Union. The Southern European island nation is an archipelago that includes the inhabited islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino, along with a number of smaller, uninhabited islands...
					Memphis Memphis (disambiguation) -Places:Worldwide:Memphis, Egypt, the ancient capital of the first nome of Lower Egypt, and of the Old Kingdom of Egypt Memphis, a Nabatean city natively named MamshitIn the United States:Memphis, Tennessee, Tennessee's largest cityMemphis, Alabama, town...
					Mende Mende Mende may refer to:* Mende people* Mende language* a commune of France, Mende in the Lozère département.* a village in Pest county Hungary: Mende, Hungary...
					Messolonghi Messolonghi Messolonghi is a town of about 18,000 people in western Greece. The town is the capital of Aetolia-Acarnania and is also its second largest town. It is the seat of the municipality of Hiera Polis Mesolongiou...
					Mesopotamia Mesopotamia Mesopotamia "land between the rivers" is a name for the Tigris–Euphrates region in the eastern Mediterranean, largely corresponding to Iraq, as well as northeastern Syria, some parts of southeastern Turkey, and some parts of the Khūzestān Province of southwestern... ; Iraq Iraq Iraq , officially the Republic of Iraq , also known as Mesopotamia, is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert.Iraq shares borders with Jordan to the west, Syria...
					Messapia Messapia Messapia was the ancient name of a region of Italy largely corresponding to modern Salento. It was inhabited chiefly by the Messapii in classical times...
					Messina
					Messenia Messenia Messenia or Messinia is a prefecture in the Peloponnese, a region of Greece. Messenia is bounded on the east by Mount Taygetus, on the north by the river Neda and the Arcadian Mountains, and on the west and south by the Mediterranean Sea, more specifically on the west by the Ionian Sea, and on the...
					Metapontum Metapontum Metapontum, Metapontium or Metapontion , was an important city of Magna Graecia, situated on the gulf of Tarentum, between the river Bradanus and the Casuentus . It was distant about 20 km from Heraclea and 40 from Tarentum...
					Metaurus; Metauro Metauro The Metauro is a river of the Marche, central Italy. It rises in the Apennine Mountains and runs east for 110 km ....
					Media Medes The Medes were an ancient Iranian people who lived in the northwestern portions of present-day Iran. This area is known as Media...
					Methymna
					Malis
					Melos
					Micronesia Micronesia Micronesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising hundreds of small islands in the western Pacific Ocean. It is distinct from Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the east. The Philippines and Indonesia lie to the west....
					Miletus Miletus Miletus was an ancient city on the western coast of Anatolia , near the mouth of the Maeander River in ancient Caria... ; Milet
					Minturnae; Minturno Minturno Minturno is a city in the southern Lazio, Italy, situated on the north west bank of the Liris , with a suburb on the opposite bank c...
					Minoa
					Mogola; Muğla Mugla Muğla is the seat of Muğla province, which stretches along Turkey´s Aegean coast in the southwest of the country.- Geography :Muğla is about inland, at an altitude of 660 meters in a pot-shaped small plain surrounded by mountains, and is the administrative capital of a province that includes the...
					Moeris Moeris Moeris may refer to:* Moeris , a genus of butterflies in the grass skipper family.* Lake Moeris, an ancient lake of Egypt* Amenemhat III , a Twelfth Dynasty pharaoh who reportedly dug the lake...
					Moesia Moesia Moesia was an ancient region and Roman province situated in the Balkans, along the south bank of the Danube River...
					Molossia
					Monachum Munich Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg... ; Munich Munich Munich is the capital city of Bavaria, Germany. It is located on the River Isar north of the Bavarian Alps. Munich is the third largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Hamburg... ; München
					Monoecus; Monaco Monaco Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a small sovereign city-state located in South Western Europe on the northern central coast of the Mediterranean Sea, having a land border on three sides only with France, and being about away from Italy. Its size is just under 2 km² with an...
					Montreal Montreal Montreal is the second-largest city in Canada and the largest city in the province of Quebec. Originally called Ville-Marie , the city takes its present name from Mont-Royal, the triple-peaked hill located in the heart of the city, whose name was also initially given to the island on which the...
					Muscovy; Moscow Moscow Moscow is the capital and the largest city of Russia. It is also the largest metropolitan area in Europe, and ranks among the largest urban areas in the world. Moscow is a major political, economic, cultural, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the world, a... ; Moskva Moskva Moskva is the Russian name of the Russian capital known in English as Moscow. It may also refer to one of the following:In geography:Moskva, name of several rural localities in Russia*Moskva, Tver Oblast, village in Tver Oblast, Russia...
					Munychia
					Mygdonia
					Myzethras; Mystras Mystras Mystras, also Mistra, Mystra and Mistras was a fortified town in Morea , on Mt. Taygetos, near ancient Sparta. In the 14th and 15th centuries, it served as the capital of the Byzantine Despotate of the Morea, experiencing a period of prosperity and cultural flowering... ; Mistra
					Mycenae Mycenae Mycenae , is an archaeological site in Greece, located about 90 km south-west of Athens, in the north-eastern Peloponnese. Argos is 6 km to the south; Corinth, 48 km to the north...
					Myconus; Mykonos Mykonos Mykonos is a Greek island and a tourist destination, renowned for its cosmopolitan character and its intense nightlife. The island is part of the Cyclades, lying between Tinos, Syros, Paros and Naxos. It spans an area of and rises at an elevation of at its highest point. The island is composed...
					Mylasa; Milas Milas Milas is an ancient city and the seat of the district of the same name in Muğla Province in southwestern Turkey. The city commands a region with an active economy, and the region is very rich in history and its remains, the whole territory of Milas district containing a remarkable twenty-seven...
					Myndus Myndus Myndus or Myndos was an ancient Dorian colony of Troezen, on the coast of Caria in Asia Minor, , sited on the Bodrum Peninsula, a few miles northwest of Halicarnassus. The site is now occupied by the modern village of Gümüslük.... ; Gümüşlük Gümüslük Gümüşlük, a seaside village and fishing port in Turkey, is situated on the remains of the ancient city of Myndos. The remains of the foundations of buildings can be clearly seen in the knee deep water that leads to Rabbit Island. This island is very successful because you can see all the boats...
					Myus Myus Myus, Caria was an ancient city-state and was one of twelve major settlements formed in the Ionian Confederation, called the Ionian League. The city was said to have been founded by Cyaretus , a son of Codrus.... ; Avşar Kalesi
					Myrcinus
					Myrrha Smyrna Smyrna was the ancient city now in Turkey, represented by modern İzmir. Located at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia and aided by its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to prominence before the Classical Era.... ; Smyrna Smyrna Smyrna was the ancient city now in Turkey, represented by modern İzmir. Located at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia and aided by its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to prominence before the Classical Era.... ; İzmir Izmir İzmir, historically Smyrna, is Turkey's third most populous city and the country's largest port after Istanbul. It is located along the outlying waters of the Gulf of İzmir, by the Aegean Sea. It is the seat of İzmir Province, which has an area of 7350 km²...
					Mysia Mysia Mysia was a region in the northwest of ancient Asia Minor or Anatolia . It was located on the south coast of the Sea of Marmara. It was bounded by Bithynia on the east, Phrygia on the southeast, Lydia on the south, Aeolis on the southwest, Troad on the west and by the Propontis on the north...
					Mytilene Mytilene Mytilene is the capital city of Lesbos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, and capital of Lesbos Prefecture and the Northern Aegean region. It is built on the southeast edge of the island...
					Morea Morea The Morea was the name of the Peloponnese peninsula in southern Greece during the Middle Ages and the early modern period...

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					Naxos
					Narbo; Narbonne Narbonne Narbonne is a commune in southern France in the Languedoc-Roussillon région. It lies from Paris in the Aude département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. Once a prosperous port, it is now located about from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea...
					Naucratis Naucratis Naucratis or Naukratis, , loosely translated as " power over ships" , was a city of Ancient Egypt, on the Canopic branch of the Nile river, 45 mi SE of the open sea and the later capital of Ptolemaic Egypt, Alexandria...
					Naupactus Naupactus Naupactus or Nafpaktos , is the second largest town in the prefecture of Aetolia-Acarnania, Greece, situated on a bay on the north side of the straits of Lepanto....
					Nauplia; Nafplio
					New South Wales New South Wales New South Wales is Australia's most populous state, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria, south of Queensland and east of South Australia...
					New Rome New Rome The term "New Rome" has been used in the following contexts.* It was a common name applied to Constantinople, the city founded by emperor Constantine I the Great in 324 . There is no evidence that such a title was actually used for official purposes in Constantine's own time... ; Constantinople Constantinople Constantinople was the imperial capital of the Roman Empire , the Byzantine/Eastern Roman Empire , the Latin Empire , and the Ottoman Empire... ; İstanbul Istanbul Istanbul is the largest city in Turkey and fifth largest city proper in the world with a population of 12.6 million. Istanbul is also a megacity, as well as the cultural and financial centre of Turkey. The city covers 39 districts of the Istanbul province...
					New York New York New York is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous. The state is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...
					Neapolis Naples Naples in Italy, is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture, architecture, music and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old... ; Naples Naples Naples in Italy, is the capital of the region of Campania and of the province of Naples. The city is known for its rich history, art, culture, architecture, music and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,800 years old... ; Napoli
					Nile Nile The Nile is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the longest river in the world....
					Nemea Nemea Nemea is an ancient site near the head of the valley of the River Elissos in the northeastern part of the Peloponnese, in Greece. Formerly part of the territory of Cleonae in Argolis, it is today part of the prefecture of Corinthia...
					Neocaesarea; Niksar Niksar Niksar is a city in Tokat Province, Turkey. It has been settled by many empires over the centuries, and it was once the capital city of the province.At 350 m...
					Nestus; Mesta Mesta River The Mesta or Nestos , formerly the Mesta Karasu , is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. It rises in the Rila Mountains and flows into the Aegean Sea near the island of Thasos. It plunges down towering canyons toward the Aegean Sea through mostly metamorphic formations...
					Nicaea Nicaea Nicaea or Nikaia may be:The ancient name of several places, including:Nicaea , capital of the Empire of Nicaea and known today as İznik, Turkey, famous for the Councils of Nicaea*Nice, France... ; Nice Nice Nice is a city in southern France located on the Mediterranean coast, between Marseille, France, and Genoa, Italy, with 347 060 inhabitants in the 2006 estimate... ; İznik Iznik İznik is a city in Turkey which is known primarily as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea, the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in the early history of the Christian church, the Nicene Creed, and as the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea...
					Nicomedia Nicomedia Nicomedia was founded by Nicomedes I of Bithynia at the head of the Gulf of Astacus which opens to the Propontis. The city was founded in 712/11 BC as a Megarian colony and, in early Antiquity, was called Astacus... ; İzmit Izmit İzmit is a city in Turkey, administrative center of Kocaeli Province as well as the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality. It is located at the Gulf of İzmit in the Sea of Marmara, about east of Istanbul, on the northwestern part of Anatolia. The city centre has a population of 248,424...
					Nicopolis Nicopolis Nicopolis or Actia Nicopolis was an ancient city of Epirus, founded 31 BC by Octavian in memory of his victory over Antony and Cleopatra at Actium.It was later the capital of Epirus Vetus....
					Ninus Ninus Ninus, according to Greek historians writing in the Hellenistic period and later, was accepted as the eponymous founder of Nineveh , although he does not seem to represent any one personage known to modern history, and is more likely a conflation of several real and/or fictional figures of... ; Nineveh Nineveh Nineveh , an "exceeding great city", as it is called in the Book of Jonah, lay on the eastern bank of the Tigris in ancient Assyria, across the river from the modern-day major city of Mosul, Iraq.-Geography:Ancient Nineveh's mound-ruins of Kouyunjik and Nabī Yūnus are located...
					Nisaea
					Nisyros Nisyros Nisyros is a volcanic Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, situated between the islands of Kos and Tilos. Its shape is approximately round, with a diameter of about , and an area of . Several other islets are found in the direct...
					Numantia Numantia Numantia is the name of an ancient Celtiberian settlement, whose remains are located 7 km north of the city of Soria, on a hill known as Cerro de la Muela in the municipality of Garray.In the year 153 B.C...
					Notium
					South Africa South Africa The Republic of South Africa is a country located at the southern tip of Africa, with a coastline on the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. To the north lie Namibia, Botswana and Zimbabwe, to the east are Mozambique and Swaziland, while Lesotho is an independent country surrounded by South Africa.Modern...
					Numidia Numidia Numidia was an ancient Berber kingdom in present-day Algeria and part of Tunisia that later alternated between being a Roman province and being a Roman client state, and is no longer in existence today...
					Detroit Detroit Detroit is the largest city in the U.S. state of Michigan and the seat of Wayne County. Detroit is a major port city on the Detroit River, in the Midwest region of the United States. Located north of Windsor, Ontario, Detroit is the only major U.S. city that looks south to Canada. It was founded...
					Nysa Nysa Nysa may refer to:Towns:* Nysa, Poland: a town in southern Poland on the Nysa Kłodzka river.* Nysa, Anatolia: was an ancient Hellenistic city founded by Antiochus I Soter.* Nisa, Turkmenistan* Nysa-Scythopolis, the Hellenistic Bet She'an in northern Israel...
					Nola Nola Nola is a city of Campania, Italy, in the province of Naples, situated in the plain between Mount Vesuvius and the Apennines. It is served by the Circumvesuviana railway from Naples.-Ancient era:...

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Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Xanthe Xanthi Xanthi is a city in northern Greece, in the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. It is the capital of Xanthi Prefecture.-History:... ; İskeçe

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Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Odessos Odessos Odessos is:* The ancient Milesian colony in Varna, Bulgaria.* The Greek name for Odessa, Ukraine.... ; Varna Varna Varna is the largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and in Northern Bulgaria, third-largest in Bulgaria after Sofia and Plovdiv, and 77th-largest in the European Union, with a population of 355,450 .Commonly referred to as the marine capital of Bulgaria, Varna is a... ; Odessa Odessa Odessa or Odesa is the administrative center of the Odessa Oblast located in southern Ukraine. The city is a major seaport located on the shore of the Black Sea and the fourth largest city in Ukraine with a population of 1,029,000 .Odessa was founded by Hacı I Giray, the Khan of Crimea, in 1240...
					Othrys
					Oeniadae
					Oenus Oenus (city) Oenus , an ancient town in Laconia, Greece, celebrated for its wine, from which the river Oenus, a tributary of the Eurotas, appears to have derived its name. From its being described by Athenaeus as near Pitane, one of the divisions of Sparta, it was probably situated near the junction of the... ; Oinounta
					Oenussae; Oinoussais
					Oenone Aegina Aegina is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island... ; Aegina Aegina Aegina is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece in the Saronic Gulf, from Athens. Tradition derives the name from Aegina, the mother of Aeacus, who was born in and ruled the island...
					Oeta
					Olpae
					Olympia Olympia, Greece Olympia , a sanctuary of ancient Greece in Elis, is known for having been the site of the Olympic Games in classical times, comparable in importance to the Pythian Games held in Delphi. Both games were held every Olympiad , the Olympic Games dating back possibly further than 776 BC...
					Olympus Mount Olympus Mount Olympus is the highest mountain range in Greece, its highest peak Mýtikas rising to 2,919 metres high . Since its base is located at sea level, it is one of the highest peaks in Europe in terms of topographic prominence, the relative altitude from base to top...
					Olynthus Olynthus Olynthus was an ancient city of Chalcidice, built mostly on two flat-topped hills 30–40m in height, in a fertile plain at the head of the Gulf of Torone, near the neck of the peninsula of Pallene, about 2.5 kilometers from the sea, and about 60 stadia Olynthus (Greek: Όλυνθος olunthos, a...
					Umbria Umbria Umbria is a region of central Italy. Its capital is Perugia. It has an area of 8,456 km² and about 900,000 inhabitants.- Geography :...
					Homeropolis; Omiroupoli Omiroupoli Omiroupoli is a municipality of 7,335 people in the central part of Chios island. It is the only municipality on the island that stretches across the island from west coast to east coast. The seat of the municipality is Vrontados , the second largest town on the island and home of 62 percent of...
					Oneum Oneum Oneum was an Illyrian settlement of the Delmatae on the site of which , later a Roman city was built.-External links:*...
					Opus Opus, Greece Opus , in Ancient Greece, the chief city of Opuntian or Eastern Locris. It was located on the coast of mainland Greece opposite Euboea, perhaps at modern Atalandi...
					Orontes
					Ossa
					Ottawa Ottawa Ottawa is the capital of Canada and a municipality within the Province of Ontario. Located in the Ottawa Valley in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario, the city lies on the southern banks of the Ottawa River, a major waterway forming the local boundary between the Provinces of Ontario and...
					Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. , formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States, founded on July 16, 1790...
					Ukraine Ukraine Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It is bordered by Russia to the east; Belarus to the north; Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary to the west; Romania and Moldova to the southwest; and the Black Sea and Sea of Azov to the south. The city of Kiev is both the capital and the largest city of... ; Ukrajina
					Heaven Heaven Heaven may refer to the physical heavens, the sky or the seemingly endless expanse of the universe beyond. This is the traditional literal meaning of the term in English... ; Uranus Uranus Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, and the third-largest and fourth most massive planet in the Solar System. It is named after the ancient Greek deity of the sky Uranus the father of Kronos and grandfather of Zeus...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Pagasae Pagasae Pagasae was an ancient city in Magnesia , now a suburb of the modern city of Volos....
					Pangaea Pangaea Pangaea, Pangæa, or Pangea was the supercontinent that existed during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras about 250 million years ago, before the component continents were separated into their current configuration.The name was first used by the German originator of the continental...
					Pangaeus
					Padus; Po Po River The Po is a river that flows either or – considering the length of the Maira, a right bank tributary – eastward across northern Italy, from a spring seeping from a stony hillside at Pian del Re, a flat place at the head of the Val Po under the northwest...
					Paionia Paionia Paionia or Paeonia was in ancient geography, the land of the Paeonians , the exact boundaries of which, like the early history of its inhabitants, are very obscure but they were in the region of Thrace...
					Pactolus Pactolus Pactolus is a river near the Aegean coast of Turkey. The river rises from Mount Tmolus, flows through the ruins of the ancient city of Sardis, and empties into the Gediz River, the ancient Hermus. The Pactolus once contained electrum that was the basis of the economy of the ancient state of Lydia...
					Palestine Palestine Palestine is a conventional name used, among others, to describe a geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, and various adjoining lands.As a geographical term, Palestine can also refer to 'ancient Palestine,' an area...
					Palatine Hill Palatine Hill The Palatine Hill is the centermost of the Seven Hills of Rome and is one of the most ancient parts of the city...
					Pallantium Pallantium Pallantium was an ancient city on the Italian peninsula thought in Roman mythology to be founded by Evander. Pallantium was one of the cities included in the city of Rome. Other cities formed around Rome by different ethnics. Pallantium is said to have been founded by Greeks. The origin of Rome...
					Pallene Pallini Pallini or Palini , ancient form and Latin: Pallene, is a suburb in the northeastern part of Athens, Greece. It is located east of Athens, midway between it and the Petalies Gulf. It is the seat of administration of the East Attica Prefecture. Only 4.13 percent of the prefectural population resides...
					Pamphylia Pamphylia In ancient geography, Pamphylia was the region in the south of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia, extending from the Mediterranean to Mount Taurus . It was bounded on the north by Pisidia and was therefore a country of small extent, having a coast-line of only about 75 miles with a breadth of...
					Panionium Panionium The Panionium was an Ionian sanctuary dedicated to Poseidon Helikonios and the meeting place of the Ionian League. It was on the peninsula of Mt. Mycale, about south of Smyrna—now İzmir, in Turkey...
					Pannonia Pannonia Pannonia is an ancient province of the Roman Empire bounded north and east by the Danube, coterminous westward with Noricum and upper Italy, and southward with Dalmatia and upper Moesia....
					Panormus; Palermo Palermo Palermo is a historic city in Southern Italy, the capital of the autonomous region Sicily and the Province of Palermo. The city is noted for its rich history, culture, architecture and gastronomy, playing an important role throughout much of its existence; it is over 2,700 years old...
					Panticapaeum Panticapaeum Panticapaeum , present-day Kerch: an important Greek city and port in Taurica , situated on a hill Panticapaeum (Greek: Παντικάπαιον, Pantikápaion), present-day Kerch: an important Greek city and port in Taurica (Tauric Chersonese), situated on a hill Panticapaeum (Greek: Παντικάπαιον,...
					Paxos Paxos The word Paxos has multiple meanings, including:* Paxos algorithm, an algorithm for fault tolerant distributed systems* Paxoi, a Greek island... ; Paxi Paxi Paxi is the name given to the smallest group of the Ionian Islands . In Greek it is a plural form and it refers to a complex of islands, the largest of which are Paxos and Antipaxos...
					Paralus Paralus Paralus may refer to:* Paralus , a former place in Egypt* Paralus , an Athenian trireme* Paralus, a son of Pericles, see Paralus and Xanthippus...
					Parthia Parthia Parthia is a region of north-eastern Iran, best known for having been the political and cultural base of the Arsacid dynasts, after which the Arsacid Empire is then also known as the 'Parthian Empire'....
					Paris Paris Paris is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
					Parnassus
					Parnes Parnitha Mount Parnitha , older forms Parnes, Parnis is a densely forested mountain range north of Athens, the highest on the peninsula of Attica, with an elevation of 1,413 m and a summit known as Karavola... ; Parnitha Parnitha Mount Parnitha , older forms Parnes, Parnis is a densely forested mountain range north of Athens, the highest on the peninsula of Attica, with an elevation of 1,413 m and a summit known as Karavola...
					Paros Paros Paros is an island of Greece in the central Aegean Sea. One of the Cyclades island group, it lies to the west of Naxos, from which it is separated by a channel about wide. It lies approximately south-east of Piraeus. Today, Paros is one of the most popular European tourist hotspots...
					Parthenon Parthenon The Parthenon is a temple of the Greek goddess Athena whom the people of Athens considered their protector. It was built in the 5th century BC on the Athenian Acropolis. It is the most important surviving building of Classical Greece, generally considered to be the culmination of the development...
					Pasargadae Pasargadae Pasargadae , the capital of Cyrus the Great and also his last resting place, was a city in ancient Persia, and is today an archaeological site and one of Iran's five UNESCO World Heritage Sites....
					Padua Padua Padua is a city in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice , in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area, having a population of c... ; Padova
					Patmos Patmos Patmos is a small Greek island in the Aegean Sea. One of the northernmost islands of the Dodecanese complex, it has a population of 2,984 and an area of 34.05 km . The highest point is Profitis Ilias, 269 meters above sea level. The Municipality of Patmos, which includes the offshore islands of...
					Patras Patras Patras is Greece's third largest urban centre and the capital of the prefecture of Achaea, located in northern Peloponnese, 215 kilometers west of Athens...
					Paphlagonia Paphlagonia Paphlagonia was an ancient area on the Black Sea coast of north central Anatolia, situated between Bithynia to the west and Pontus to the east, and separated from Phrygia by a prolongation to the east of the Bithynian Olympus...
					Paphos Paphos Paphos Paphos Paphos (Paphos is usually written Paphos, Pafos or Paphus in English, Ancient Greek: ; Modern Greek: Πάφος, Páfos; Latin: Paphus, and for a time, Augusta; Turkish... ; Baf Paphos Paphos Paphos Paphos (Paphos is usually written Paphos, Pafos or Paphus in English, Ancient Greek: ; Modern Greek: Πάφος, Páfos; Latin: Paphus, and for a time, Augusta; Turkish...
					Piraeus Piraeus Piraeus is a city in the periphery of Attica, Greece, and a municipality within Athens urban area, located 10 km southwest of its center....
					Pirene Pirene In Greek mythology, Pirene or Peirene , a nymph, was either the daughter of Oebalus, King of Laconia or the River God Achelous, depending on different sources. Her child, Cenchrias was unintentionally killed by Artemis. Her grief was so profound that she became nothing but tears and turned into the...
					Pelasgia Pelasgians The name Pelasgians was used by some ancient Greek writers to refer to populations that preceded the Hellenes in Greece, "a hold-all term for any ancient, primitive and presumably autochthonous people in the Greek world." In general, "Pelasgian" has come to mean more broadly all the autochthonous...
					Pella Pella Pella , an ancient city located in Pella Prefecture of Macedonia in Greece, was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedon. A common folk etymology is traditionally given for the name Pella, ascribing it to a form akin to the Doric Apella, originally meaning a ceremonial location where decisions...
					Pellene
					Peloponnese Peloponnese The Peloponnese or Peloponnesus is a large peninsula and region in southern Greece, forming the part of the country south of the Gulf of Corinth...
					Pergamon Pergamon Pergamon, Pergamum or Pérgamo was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Mysia, today located from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus , that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty,... ; Bergama Bergama Bergama refers to a city and its surrounding district in İzmir Province, in the Aegean Region of the Republic of Turkey...
					Perinthus; Marmara Ereğli Marmara Eregli Marmara Ereğli is a town and district of Tekirdağ Province in the Marmara region of Turkey.-Facts:Ereğli is 30 km east of the town of Tekirdağ, and 90 km west of Istanbul near a small pointed headland on the north shore of the Marmara Sea...
					Perrhaebia Perrhaebia Perrhaebia was the northest district of ancient Thessaly, where the tribe of Perrhaebi lived. Major cities were: Pythion, Doliche, Azorus, Oloosson and Phallana the capital. Perrhaebia was part of Macedonia between 4th and 1st centuries BC....
					Persepolis Persepolis Persepolis was the ceremonial capital of the Persian Empire during the Achaemenid dynasty. Persepolis is situated northeast of the modern city of Shiraz in the Fars Province of modern Iran...
					Persia
					Petra Petra (disambiguation) -Places:Petra, an archeological site in Jordan.Petra, CyprusPetra Tou Romiou, a landmark in CyprusPetra, Spain, a town on the island of MajorcaPetra, LesbosPetra, Pieria-People:...
					Pegae
					Pelion Pelion Pelion or Pelium is a mountain at the southeastern part of Thessaly in central Greece, forming a hook-like peninsula between the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea...
					Pelusium Pelusium Pelusium was a city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile Delta, 30 km to the southeast of the modern Port Said. Alternative names include Sena and Per-Amun , Pelousion , Sin , Seyân , and Tell el-Farama...
					Peneus Peneus In Greek mythology, Peneus was a river god, one of the three-thousand Rivers, a child of Oceanus and Tethys. The nymph Creusa bore him one son, Hypseus, who was King of the Lapiths, and three daughters, Cyrene, Daphne, and Stilbe...
					Pieria Pieria Pieria is one of the prefectures of Greece. It is located in the southern part of Macedonia, in the Periphery of Central Macedonia. Its capital is the town of Katerini. Pieria is the smallest prefecture within Macedonia. The name Pieria originates from the ancient tribe and the ancient country of...
					Pithecusae; Ischia Ischia Ischia is a volcanic island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples. The roughly trapezoidal island lies about 30 km from Naples and measures around 10 km east to west and 7 km north to south with a coastline and a surface area of...
					Picenum Picenum Picenum was a region of ancient Roman Italy. Picenum was the birthplace of such notables as Pompey the Great and his father Pompeius Strabo. It was situated in what is now the region of Marche in modern Italy....
					Pindus Pindus The Pindus mountain range is located in northern Greece and southern Albania. It is roughly 160 km long, with a maximum elevation of 2637 m . Because it runs along the border of Thessaly and Epirus, the Pindus range is often called the "spine of Greece"...
					Pisa Pisa Pisa is a city in Tuscany, central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the Arno River on the Ligurian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...
					Pisidia Pisidia Pisidia was a region of ancient Asia Minor located north of Lycia, and bordering Caria, Lydia, Phrygia and Pamphylia. It corresponds roughly to the modern-day province of Antalya in Turkey)...
					Pitane Pitane Pitane may be the name of:* Pitane , an ancient coastal city of Aeolis, currently the site of Çandarlı, İzmir Province, Turkey* Pitane , a nymph* Pitane , a moth genus... ; Çandarlı Çandarli Çandarlı is a seaside township and municipality within the district of Dikili in Turkey's İzmir Province. It is a well developed town and an important tourist resort...
					Placentia Piacenza Piacenza is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza... ; Piacenza Piacenza Piacenza is a city in the Emilia-Romagna region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Piacenza...
					Plataea Plataea Plataea or Plataeae was an ancient city, located in Greece in southeastern Boeotia, south of Thebes. It was the location of the Battle of Plataea in 479 BC, in which an alliance of Greek city-states defeated the Persians...
					Pleistus
					Pluto Pluto Pluto, formal designation 134340 Pluto, is the second-largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System and the tenth-largest body observed directly orbiting the Sun...
					Pnyx Pnyx The Pnyx is a hill in central Athens, the capital of Greece. It is located less than one kilometre west of the Acropolis and 1.6 km south-west of the centre of modern Athens, Syntagma Square.-The site:Compared to the better-known surviving monuments of ancient Athens, such as the Parthenon,...
					Polygyros Polygyros Polygyros is a town and municipality in Central Macedonia, Greece, the capital of the Prefecture of Chalkidiki. Polygyros is south of GR-16 . Polygyros is located SE of Thessaloniki, NE of Nea Moudania, NW of Sithonia and SW of Arnaia. The town Polygyros (Greek: Πολύγυρος) is a town and...
					Polynesia Polynesia Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean.-Definition:...
					Pompeii Pompeii Pompeii is a ruined and partially buried Roman town-city near modern Naples in the Italian region of Campania, in the territory of the comune of Pompei...
					Pontus Pontus Pontus or Pontos is a historical Greek designation for a region on the southern coast of the Black Sea, located in modern-day northeastern Turkey. The name was applied to the coastal region in antiquity by the Greeks who colonized the area, and derived from the Greek name of the Black Sea: Pontos...
					Poros Poros Poros is a small Greek island-pair in the southern part of the Saronic Gulf, at a distance about 58 km south from Piraeus and separated from the Peloponnese by a 200-metre wide sea channel. Its surface is about 31 square kilometres and it has 4,117 inhabitants. The town of Poros has 4,102...
					Neptune Neptune Neptune is the eighth planet from the Sun in our Solar System. Named for the Roman god of the sea, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter and the third-largest by mass. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 Earth masses and...
					Potidaea Potidaea Potidaea was a colony founded by the Corinthians around 600 BC in the narrowest point in Pallene in the western point of Chalcidice in what was known as Thrace. Potidaea maintained trade with Macedonia....
					Puteoli; Pozzuoli Pozzuoli Pozzuoli is a city of the province of Naples, in the Italian region of Campania. It is the main city of the Phlegrean peninsula.-History:Pozzuoli began as the Greek colony of Dicaearchia. The Roman colony was established in 194 BC, and took the Latin name Puteoli 'little wells', referring to the...
					Praeneste; Palestrina Palestrina Palestrina is an ancient city and comune with a population of about 18,000, in Lazio, c. 35 km east of Rome...
					Pretoria Pretoria Pretoria is a city located in the northern part of Gauteng Province, South Africa. It is one of the country's three capital cities, serving as the executive and de facto national capital; the others are Cape Town, the legislative capital, and Bloemfontein, the judicial capital.Pretoria is...
					Prasiae
					Preveza Preveza Preveza is a town in northwestern Greece, located at the mouth of the Ambracian Gulf. It is the capital of Preveza Prefecture, which is part of the periphery of Epirus. An undersea tunnel, which runs between Preveza and Aktio of Acarnania , connects the town to western Aetolia in Aetolia-Acarnania...
					Priene Priene Priene was an ancient Greek city of Ionia at the base of an escarpment of Mycale, about north of the then course of the Maeander River, from today's Aydin, from today's Söke and from ancient Miletus... ; Güllübahçe
					Proconnesus; Marmara Marmara Island Marmara is a Turkish island in the Sea of Marmara. It is the largest island in the Sea of Marmara that is the center of Marmara district in Balıkesir Province...
					Propontis
					Prousa; Bursa Bursa, Turkey Bursa is a city in northwestern Turkey and the seat of Bursa Province...
					Ptolemais Ptolemais Ptolemais is the ancient name for the cities of:Ptolemaida - named after Ptolemy I SoterAcre - named after Ptolemy I Soter*Ptolemais Hermiou - Greek colony established by Ptolemy I SoterAnd for the historical cities of:... ; Accho; Acre Acre, Israel Acre also Akko, is a city in the Western Galilee region of northern Israel. It is situated on a low promontory at the northern extremity of Haifa Bay. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , Acre had a population of 46,000 at the end of 2007...
					Pydna Pydna Pydna , also Pidna was a Greek city in ancient Macedon, the most important in Pieria. Modern Pydna is a rural municipality and coastal town in the northeastern part of the Prefecture of Pieria. Pydna is situated in fertile land to the north of the Pierian plain...
					Pylos Pylos This article is about the Greek geographical feature and town. For the mythological figure see Pylus . For board game see Pylos ....
					Pyrgos Pyrgos, Elis Pyrgos is the capital of the Prefecture of Ilia in Greece. It is named after a local tower. The city is located in the western part of the Peloponnese, in the middle of a plain in Ilia. It is 96 km away from Patras via Greek National Road 9, 320 km from Athens, and 144 km from... ; Burgas Burgas Burgas is the second-largest city and seaside resort on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast with population 210,260. It is also the fourth-largest by population in the country, after Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna...
					Pyrenees Pyrenees The Pyrenees are a range of mountains in southwest Europe that form a natural border between France and Spain...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Ravenna Ravenna Ravenna is a city and comune in the Emilia-Romagna region of Italy. The city is inland, but is connected to the Adriatic Sea by a canal. Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire till 476. It was later the capital ofKingdom of the Ostrogoths and the Exarchate of Ravenna till 751...
					Rhamnous Rhamnous The site of Rhamnous , the remote northernmost deme of Attica, lies 39km NE of Athens and 12.4km NNE of Marathon, Greece overlooking the Euboean Strait. Rhamnous was strategically significant enough to be fortified and receive an Athenian garrison of ephebes...
					Rethymno Rethymno Rethymno is a city of approximately 40,000 people in Greece, the capital of Rethymno Prefecture in the island of Crete. It was built in antiquity , even though was never a competitive Minoan center...
					Rhegium; Reggio di Calabria
					Rhenea
					Rhenus Rhenus The Rhenus group is one of Europe's leading logistics service companies with a turnover of 3,1 billion EUR. Rhenus has business locations at 290 sites and employs 17,700 people.- History :... ; Rhine Rhine The Rhine is one of the longest and most important rivers in Europe, at , with an average discharge of more than ....
					Rhium
					Rhodanus; Rhône Rhône River The Rhone is one of the major rivers of Europe, originating in Switzerland and running from there through the south-eastern corner of France...
					Rhodope Rhodope Rhodope may mean:* Queen Rhodope, a figure of Greek mythology* Rhodope Mountains, in Bulgaria and Greece* Rhodope Prefecture, of Greece* Rhodope * 166 Rhodope, an asteroid...
					Rhodes Rhodes Rhodes is a Greek island approximately southwest of Turkey in eastern Aegean Sea...
					Rubicon Rubicon Rubicon is a 29 km long river in northern Italy.The river flows from the Apennine Mountains to the Adriatic Sea through the southern Emilia-Romagna region between the towns of Rimini and Cesena....
					Romania Romania Romania is a country located in Southeastern and Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian arch, bordering on the Black Sea. Almost all of the Danube Delta is located within its territory...
					Rho Rho (island) Ro or Rho is a small Greek island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea near Kastelorizo, close to the Turkish coast. It is part of the municipality of Megísti , in the Dodecanese prefecture....
					Rhomania; Byzantine Empire Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire or Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire during the Middle Ages, centered on the capital of Constantinople, and ruled by Emperors in direct and de jure succession to the ancient Roman Emperors...
					Rome Rome Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated municipality , with over 2.7 million residents in , while the population of the urban area is estimated by Eurostat to be 3.46 million. The metropolitan area of Rome is estimated by OECD to have a population of 3.7 million... ; Roma
					Rumelia Rumelia Rumelia or Rumeli is a Turkish name, used from the 15th century onwards, for the southern Balkan regions of the Ottoman Empire...
					Russia Russia Russia , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia . It is a semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects... ; Rossija

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Sais SAIS SAIS can refer to:* Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, part of The Johns Hopkins University.* Sharjah American International School* Southern Association of Independent Schools...
					Salaminia Salaminia The Salaminia was the messenger trireme of the Athenian navy during the late 5th century BC. It played a notable role in several episodes of the Peloponnesian War...
					Salamis Salamis Island Salamis , formerly known as Kulluri is the largest Greek island in the Saronic Gulf, about 1 nautical mile off-coast from Piraeus and about 16 km west of Athens. The chief city, Salamis or Salamina, lies in the west-facing core of the crescent on Salamis Bay, which opens into the Saronic...
					Samaria Samaria Samaria, or the Shomron is a term used for a mountainous region roughly corresponding to the northern part of the West Bank.- Etymology :...
					Samothrace Samothrace Samothrace is a Greek island in the northern Aegean Sea. It is a self-governing deme within the Evros Prefecture of Thrace. The island is long and is in size and has a population of 2,723 . Its main industries are fishing and tourism. Resources on the island includes granite and basalt. ...
					Samos Samos Island Samos is a Greek island in the North Aegean sea, south of Chios, north of Patmos and the Dodecanese, and off the coast of Asia Minor.-Geography:...
					Sampsus; Samsun Samsun Samsun is a city in northern Turkey, on the coast of the Black Sea, with a population of 725,111 as of 2007. It is the capital city of Samsun Province and an important port...
					Santorini Santorini Santorini is a small, circular archipelago of volcanic islands located in the southern Aegean Sea, about southeast from Greece's mainland. The largest island is known as Thēra , forming the southernmost member of the Cyclades group of islands, with an area of approximately and a 2001 census...
					Sane
					Sardis Sardis Sardis, also Sardes , modern Sart in the Manisa province of Turkey, was the capital of the ancient kingdom of Lydia, one of the important cities of the Persian Empire, the seat of a proconsul under the Roman Empire, and the metropolis of the province Lydia in later Roman and Byzantine times... ; Sart Sart Sart is a name for the settled inhabitants of Central Asia which has had shifting meanings over the centuries. Sarts, known sometimes as Ak-Sart in ancient times, did not have any particular ethnic identification, and were usually town-dwellers...
					Sardinia Sardinia Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea . The area of Sardinia is . The nearest land masses to the island are the French island of Corsica, the Italian Peninsula, Tunisia, and the Spanish Balearic Islands...
					Saronic Gulf Saronic Gulf The Saronic Gulf or Gulf of Aegina in Greece forms part of the Aegean Sea and defines the eastern side of the isthmus of Corinth. It is the eastern terminus of the Corinth Canal, which cuts across the isthmus...
					Sebastopol Sevastopol Sevastopol is a port city in Ukraine, located on the Black Sea coast of the Crimea peninsula. It has a population of 342,451...
					Seleucia Seleucia Seleucia was the first capital of the Seleucid Empire, and one of the great cities of antiquity standing in Mesopotamia, on the Tigris River.Seleucia may refer to:...
					Moon Moon The Moon is Earth's only natural satellite and the fifth largest satellite in the Solar System. The average centre-to-centre distance from the Earth to the Moon is , about thirty times the diameter of the Earth. The common centre of mass of the system is located at about —a quarter the Earth's...
					Selinus; Selinunte Selinunte Selinunte is an ancient Greek archaeological site situated on the south coast of Sicily, southern Italy between the valleys of the rivers Belice and Modione in the province of Trapani. The archaeological site contains five temples centered on an acropolis...
					Sellasia
					Serbia Serbia Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a country located in both Central and Southeastern Europe. Its territory covers the southern part of the Pannonian Plain and central part of the Balkans... ; Srbija
					Seriphos
					Serrhae; Serres Serres, Greece Sérres is a city in Macedonia, Greece. It is situated in a fertile plain at an elevation of about 70 m, some 24 km northeast of the Strymon river and 69 km north-east of the Macedonian capital, Thessaloniki. The Rhodope Mountains rise to the north and east of the city...
					Sequana Seine The Seine is a slow-flowing major river and commercial waterway within the regions of Île-de-France and Haute-Normandie in France and famous as a romantic backdrop in photographs of Paris, France. It is also a tourist attraction, with excursion boats offering sightseeing tours of the Rive Droite... ; Seine Seine The Seine is a slow-flowing major river and commercial waterway within the regions of Île-de-France and Haute-Normandie in France and famous as a romantic backdrop in photographs of Paris, France. It is also a tourist attraction, with excursion boats offering sightseeing tours of the Rive Droite...
					Selymbria; Silivri Silivri Silivri is a district of Istanbul Province along the Sea of Marmara in Turkey, outside of metropolitan Istanbul, containing many holiday and weekend homes for residents of the city.The largest town in the district is also named Silivri....
					Sestos Sestos Sestos was an ancient Greek town of the Thracian Chersonese, the modern Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey. Situated on the Hellespont opposite Abydos, it was the home of Hero in the legend of Hero and Leander. Sestos was an Aeolian colony, as it was founded by settlers from Lesbos...
					Sigeum
					Sidon Sidon Sidon,or Saïda, is the third-largest city in Lebanon. It is located in the South Governorate of Lebanon, on the Mediterranean coast, about 40 km north of Tyre and 40 km south of the capital Beirut. Its name means a fishery...
					Sithonia Sithonia Sithonia is a peninsula located south of the central part of Halkidiki which is also in the south-central part of the Halkidiki peninsula. The Kassandra Peninsula lies to the west and the Mount Athos peninsula at the east...
					Chicago Chicago Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois, and with more than 2.8 million people, the 3rd largest city in the United States...
					Sicania
					Sicily Sicily Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy. Several much smaller islands surrounding it are considered to be part of Sicily.... ; Sicilia
					Sikinos Sikinos Sikinos is a Greek island and community in the Cyclades. It is located midway between the islands of Ios and Folegandros. It was known as Oinoe in Ancient Greece. It contrasts with nearby islands, such as Ios, in being quiet and relatively less developed. There are two villages, one being a...
					Sicyon Sicyon Sikyon was an ancient Greek city situated in the northern Peloponnesus between Corinth and Achaea on the territory of the present-day prefecture of Corinthia...
					Simoeis Simoeis Simoeis was a river of the Trojan plain and the name of its god. Like other river-gods, Simoeis was the son of Oceanus and Tethys . Simoeis had two daughters who were married into the Trojan royal family. One daughter, Astyoche, was married to Erichthonius, and the other daughter, Hieromneme was...
					Sindh Sindh Sindh , is one of the four provinces of Pakistan and historically is home to the Sindhis. Different cultural and ethnic groups also reside in Sindh including Urdu-speaking Muslim refugees who migrated to Pakistan from India upon independence as well as the people migrated from other provinces after...
					Sinop Sinop Sinop can refer to:Sinop, Turkey, a city near the Black Sea in Turkey, and the battle that took place there.Sinop Province, the province in Turkey of which the above city is the capitalSinop, Mato Grosso, a city in Mato Grosso state, Brazil... e; Sinop Sinop Sinop can refer to:Sinop, Turkey, a city near the Black Sea in Turkey, and the battle that took place there.Sinop Province, the province in Turkey of which the above city is the capitalSinop, Mato Grosso, a city in Mato Grosso state, Brazil...
					Sipylus Sipylus "Sipylus" may also refer to:* Mount Sipylus, a mountain situated near the city of Manisa in Turkey's Aegean Region.* Sipylus Holdings, a U.S.-based holding company....
					Siphae
					Siphnus
					Scamander Scamander In Greek mythology, Scamander was a river god, son of Oceanus and Tethys according to Hesiod. Scamander is also thought of as the river god, son of Zeus. By Idaea, he fathered King Teucer.... ; Karamenderes
					Sciathus
					Scotusa
					Scupi Scupi Scupi is an archaeological site located between Зајчев Рид and the Vardar River, several kilometers from the center of Skopje, in Macedonia. It was a Roman colony founded in the time of Domitian and it was abandoned in 518 A.D... ; Üsküp; Skopje Skopje Skopje is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Macedonia, with more than a quarter of the population of the country, as well as its political, cultural, economic, and academic centre. It was known in the Roman period under the name Scupi. The city developed rapidly after World War II,...
					Scythia Scythia The Scythians or Scyths were an Ancient Iranian people of horse-riding nomadic pastoralists who throughout Classical Antiquity dominated the Pontic-Caspian steppe, known at the time as Scythia. By Late Antiquity the closely-related Sarmatians came to dominate the Scythians in this area...
					Scyrus
					Smyrna Smyrna Smyrna was the ancient city now in Turkey, represented by modern İzmir. Located at a central and strategic point on the Aegean coast of Anatolia and aided by its advantageous port conditions, its ease of defence and its good inland connections, Smyrna rose to prominence before the Classical Era.... ; İzmir Izmir İzmir, historically Smyrna, is Turkey's third most populous city and the country's largest port after Istanbul. It is located along the outlying waters of the Gulf of İzmir, by the Aegean Sea. It is the seat of İzmir Province, which has an area of 7350 km²...
					Soli Soli Soli can refer to:* Soli, an ancient city on the island of Cyprus.* Soli, an ancient city in Cilicia, later renamed Pompeiopolis.* Soli, a 10th century name for Tuzla, a city in Bosnia-Herzegovina....
					Sunium
					Susa Susa Susa ; Syriac: ; was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian and Parthian empires of Iran, located about 250 km east of the Tigris River....
					Sophia Sofia Sofia is the capital and largest city of Bulgaria and the 12th largest city by population in the European Union, with 1.4 million people living in the Capital Municipality... ; Sofija
					Sparta Sparta Sparta was a city-state in ancient Greece, situated on the River Eurotas in the southern part of the Peloponnese. From c. 650 BC it rose to become the dominant military power in the region and as such was recognized as the overall leader of the combined Greek forces during the Greco-Persian Wars...
					Spercheus Spercheus In Greek mythology, Spercheus or Spercheios was the name of a river in Thessaly , and of the god of that river. According to Antoninus Liberalis , the nymphs of Mount Othrys were daughters of Spercheus by Deino, whether the same Deino elsewhere named as one of the Graeae or another is not said...
					Sporades Sporades The Sporades are an archipelago along the east coast of Greece, northeast of the island of Euboea, in the Aegean Sea. It consists of 24 islands, of which five are inhabited: Alonnisos, Skiathos, Skopelos, Peristera and Skyros....
					Stageira Stageira Stageira was an ancient Greek city on the Chalcidice peninsula and is chiefly known for being the birthplace of Aristotle...
					Stratonicea Stratonicea Stratonicea also transliterated as Stratoniceia, Stratonikeia, Stratonice, Stratoniki, Stratonike) can refer to any of several Hellenistic cities, including:...
					Strongyli; Strongili Strongili Strongyli Kastellorizou , also called Strongili or Ipsili, is a Greek islet which lies in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, about five nautical miles south-east of the island of Kastelorizo. The island is about 1.5 km long, and up to 700 m wide. It covers an area of about 0.9 km²... ; Stromboli Stromboli Stromboli is a small island in the Tyrrhenian Sea, off the north coast of Sicily, containing one of the three active volcanoes in Italy. It is one of the eight Aeolian Islands, a volcanic arc north of Sicily. This name is a corruption of the Ancient Greek name Strongulē which was given to it...
					Strymon; Struma Struma River The Struma or Strymónas is a river in Bulgaria and Greece. Its ancient name was Strymōn . Its catchment area is 10,800 km²...
					Styx Styx (mythology) The River Styx was a river in Greek mythology which formed the boundary between Earth and the Underworld . It circles the Underworld nine times. The rivers Styx, Phlegethon, Acheron and Cocytus all converge at the center of the underworld on a great marsh...
					Sybaris Sybaris Sybaris was a celebrated city of Magna Graecia on the western shore of the Gulf of Taranto. The wealth of the city in the 6th century BC was such that the Sybarites became synonymous with pleasure and luxury... ; Sibari
					Syvota Syvota Syvota is a municipality in Thesprotia, Greece with a population of 3,010 inhabitants . The seat of the municipality is in Plataria. The coastal village of Syvota , part of the modern municipality, was home to Cham Albanians before 1944, when they were expelled for collaborating with the Axis...
					Syme Symi Symi also transliterated Syme or Simi is a Greek island and municipality. It is mountainous and includes the harbor town of Symi and its adjacent upper town Ano Symi, as well as several smaller localities, beaches, and areas of significance in history and mythology.The shipbuilding and sponge...
					Symplegades Symplegades In Greek mythology, the Symplegades , also known as the Cyanean Rocks or Clashing Rocks, were a pair of rocks at the Bosphorus that clashed together randomly. They were defeated by Jason and the Argonauts, who would have been lost and killed by the rocks except for Phineas' advice. Jason let a dove...
					Syracuse Syracuse, Italy Syracuse is a historic city in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Syracuse. The city is famous for its rich Greek history, culture, amphitheatres, architecture and association to Archimedes, playing an important role in ancient times as one of the top powers of the Mediterranean world;... ; Siracusa
					Syria Syria Syria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south and Israel to the southwest....
					Syros Syros Syros , or Siros or Syra is a Greek island in the Cyclades, in the Aegean Sea. It is located south-east of Athens. The island is home to the municipalities of Ermoupoli, Ano Syros, and Poseidonia. Ermoupoli is the capital of the island and the Cyclades...
					Sphacteria Sphacteria Sphacteria is a small island at the entrance to the bay of Pylos in the Peloponnese, Greece. Its modern name is Sphagia.In ancient times it was the site of the Battle of Sphacteria in the Peloponnesian war.... ; Sphagia Sphagia Sphagia is the modern name of the island known in ancient times as Sphacteria. It is located in the Peloponnese, Greece, west of Pylos.The island of Sphacteria is the site of the Battle of Sphacteria from the time of the Peloponnesian War...

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Classical/Katharevousa		Modern Greek			English
Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Taenarus
					Tanagra Tanagra Tanagra is a community north of Athens in Boeotia, not far from Thebes, that was noted in antiquity for its mass-produced mold-cast and fired terracotta figurines: see Tanagra figurine. Pausanias mentions in its location the ancient city of Graea, eponymous of the Graikoi, a Boeotian tribe whose...
					Tanais Tanais Tanais is the ancient name for the River Don in Russia. Strabo regarded it as the boundary between Europe and Asia.... ; Don
					Taras Taras Taras may mean:* Taras, ancient city of Magna Graecia, modern Taranto.* Taraš, a village in Vojvodina, Serbia.* Taras , the son of Poseidon and of the nymph Satyrion.... ; Tarentum Taranto Taranto is a coastal city in Puglia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base.It is the third-largest continental city of southern Italy: according to the 2001 census, it has a population of... ; Taranto Taranto Taranto is a coastal city in Puglia, Southern Italy. It is the capital of the Province of Taranto and is an important commercial port as well as the main Italian naval base.It is the third-largest continental city of southern Italy: according to the 2001 census, it has a population of...
					Tarquinii; Tarquinia Tarquinia Tarquinia, formerly Corneto and in Antiquity Tarquinii, is an ancient city in the province of Viterbo, Lazio, Italy.- History :Tarquinii is said to have been already a flourishing city when Demaratus of Corinth brought in Greek workmen...
					Tarsus Tarsus (city) Tarsus is a historical city in south-central Turkey, 20 km inland from Mediterrenean Sea. It is part of Adana-Mersin Metropolitan Area, fourth largest metropolitan area in Turkey with a population of 2.75 million...
					Tartarus Tartarus In classic mythology, below Heaven, Earth, and Pontus is Tartarus, or Tartaros . It is a deep, gloomy place, a pit, or an abyss used as a dungeon of torment and suffering that resides beneath the underworld. In the Gorgias, Plato wrote that souls were judged after death and those who received...
					Tartessus
					Taygetus Taygetus Mount Taygetus, Taugetus, or Taigetus is a mountain range in the Peloponnese peninsula in Southern Greece. It is the tallest mountain in the Peloponnese, reaching 2,407 m at the Profitis Elias summit. The Taygetus range is about 100 km long, extending from the center of the Peloponese to Cape...
					Tauris; Taurica Taurica The Tauric Chersonese was the name by which the Crimea was known to the Greeks and Romans.- Etymology of the name :The Greeks named the region after its inhabitants, the Tauri: Ταυρική Χερσόνησος or Χερσόνησος Ταυρική , "Tauric peninsula"... ; Crimea Crimea Crimea or the Autonomous Republic of Crimea is the only autonomous republic of Ukraine. It is located on the northern coast of the Black Sea, occupying a peninsula of the same name.The territory of Crimea was conquered and controlled many times throughout its history...
					Tauromenium; Taormina Taormina Taormina is a comune and small town on the east coast of the island of Sicily, Italy, in the Province of Messina, about midway between Messina and Catania. Taormina has been a very popular tourist destination since the 19th century...
					Taurus Taurus Mountains Taurus Mountains are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, from which the Euphrates and Tigris descend into Iraq. It divides the Mediterranean coastal region of southern Turkey from the central Anatolian Plateau.... ; Toros Taurus Mountains Taurus Mountains are a mountain complex in southern Turkey, from which the Euphrates and Tigris descend into Iraq. It divides the Mediterranean coastal region of southern Turkey from the central Anatolian Plateau....
					Tegea Tegea Tegea was a settlement in ancient Greece, and it is also a municipality in modern Arcadia, Greece, with its seat in the village Stadio.Ancient Tegea was an important religious center of ancient Greece, containing the Temple of Athena Alea. The temenos was founded by Aleus, Pausanias was informed...
					Telmessus Telmessus Telmessos , later Anastasiopolis, then Makri/Macre was the largest city in Lycia, near the Carian border, and is sometimes confused with Telmessos in Caria...
					Telendos
					Tempe Vale of Tempe The Vale of Tempe , celebrated by Greek poets as a favorite haunt of Apollo and the Muses, is the ancient name of a gorge in northern Thessaly, Greece, located between Olympus to the north and Ossa to the south...
					Tenea Tenea Tenea is an ancient city in North-East Peloponnese, Greece. In the mid '90s the municipality of the region assumed its ancient name, Tenea. The seat of the municipality is in Chiliomodi. Ancient Tenea was established approximately 15 kilometres SE of Corinth and 20 kilometres NE of Mycenae shortly...
					Tenedos Tenedos Tenedos, officially referred to as Bozcaada in Turkey is a small island in the Aegean Sea, part of the Bozcaada district of Çanakkale province in Turkey. Bozcaada/Tenedos has a population of about 2,500. The main industries are fishing and tourism. The island has been famous for its grapes,... ; Bozcaada
					Termera; Assarlik
					Teucris
					Teos Teos Teos or Teo was a maritime city of Ionia, on a peninsula between Chytrium and Myonnesus, colonized by Orchomenian Minyans, Ionians, and Boeotians... ; Sığaçık
					Telos Tilos Tílos is a small Greek island and municipality located in the Aegean Sea. It is part of the Dodecanese group of islands, and lies midway between Kos and Rhodes. It has a population of 533 inhabitants...
					Tenos Tinos Tinos is a Greek island situated in the Aegean Sea. It is located in the Cyclades archipelago. In ancient times, Tinos was also known as Ophiussa and Hydroessa . The closest islands are Andros, Delos, and Mykonos...
					Tiberias Tiberias Tiberias is a city on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Lower Galilee, Israel. Established in 20 CE, it was named in honour of the emperor Tiberius. Since the sixteenth century, Tiberias has been considered one of Judaism's Four Holy Cities, along with Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed... ; Teverya
					Tiber Tiber The Tiber is the third-longest river in Italy, rising in the Apennine mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing through Umbria and Lazio to the Tyrrhenian Sea. It drains a basin estimated at... ; Tevere
					Tigranakert Tigranakert Tigranakert was a city near present-day Silvan, Turkey, east of Diyarbakır. It was founded by the Armenian Emperor Tigranes the Great in the 1st century BC...
					Tigris Tigris The Tigris is the eastern member of the two great rivers that define Mesopotamia, along with the Euphrates. The river flows from the mountains of southeastern Turkey through Iraq.-Geography:...
					Tiryns Tiryns Tiryns is a Mycenaean archaeological site in the prefecture of Argolis in the Peloponnese, some kilometres north of Nauplion.-General information:...
					Titan Titan (moon) Titan , or Saturn VI, is the largest moon of Saturn, the only moon known to have a dense atmosphere, and the only object other than Earth for which clear evidence of stable bodies of surface liquid has been found....
					Tiflis; Tbilisi Tbilisi Tbilisi is the capital and the largest city of Georgia, lying on the banks of the Mt'k'vari River. The name is derived from an early Georgian form Tp'ilisi and it was officially known as Tiflis until 1936...
					Tmolus Tmolus In Greek mythology, Tmolus was a mountain god and husband to Omphale . He judged the musical contest between Pan and Apollo.Mount Tmolus , of which Tmolus was the eponymous namesake, lies in Lydia, or Phrygia , with Sardis at its foot and Hypaepa on its southern slope.The geography of Tmolus and...
					Toronto Toronto Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the provincial capital of Ontario. It is located in Southern Ontario on the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. With over 2.5 million residents, it is the fifth most populous municipality in North America...
					Turkey Turkey Turkey , known officially as the Republic of Turkey , is a Eurasian country that stretches across the Anatolian peninsula in Western Asia and Thrace in the Balkan region of southeastern Europe... ; Türkiye
					Trajanopolis Trajanopolis Trajanopolis is a Roman Catholic titular see in the former Roman province of Phrygia Pacatiana, suffragan of Laodicea.-History:The only geographer who speaks of Trajanopolis is Ptolemy , who wrongly places this city in Greater Mysia...
					Tralles; Aydın Aydin Aydın is a city in and the seat of Aydın Province in Turkey's Aegean Region. It's population is 165,000 in 2007.Aydın is the heart of the lower valley of Büyük Menderes River down to the Aegean Sea, a region that has been known for its fertility and productivity since ancient times...
					Trapezus Trapezus Trapezus, Trapezounta, and Trapezounta can refer to:Trabzon, an ancient settlement on the Black Sea in Turkey.Trapezus, a city in the province Arcadia in Greece... ; Trebizond; Trabzon Trabzon Trabzon, historically known as Trapezus and Trebizond, is a city on the Black Sea coast of north-eastern Turkey and the capital of Trabzon Province. Trabzon, located on the historical Silk Road, became a melting pot of religions, languages and culture for centuries and a trade gateway to Iran in...
					Trebbia Trebbia The Trebbia is a river predominantly of Liguria and Emilia Romagna in northern Italy. It is one of the four main right-bank tributaries of the river Po, the other three being the Tanaro, the Secchia and the Panaro...
					Trinacria; Sicily Sicily Sicily is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea. It is an autonomous region of Italy. Several much smaller islands surrounding it are considered to be part of Sicily....
					Tripoli Tripoli (disambiguation) Tripoli is the capital of Libya.Tripoli or Tripolis may also refer to:Other cities:Tripoli, LebanonTripoli, Greece, the capital of Arcadia Prefecture, Greece*Tripolis or Tirebolu, a city in Turkey...
					Triton Triton (moon) Triton is the largest moon of the planet Neptune, discovered on October 10, 1846 by William Lassell. It is the only large moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit, which is an orbit in the opposite direction to its planet's rotation. At 2700 km in diameter, it is the seventh-largest...
					Triphylia
					Troy Troy Troy is a legendary city and center of the Trojan War, as described in the Epic Cycle and especially in the Iliad, one of the two epic poems attributed to Homer... ; Truva
					Troezen Troezen Troezen , modern: Troizina or Trizina is a small town in the northeastern Peloponnese, located southwest of Athens and a few miles south of Methana. It is also the name of the surrounding municipality , with seat in Galatas . Troizina is part of Piraeus Prefecture...
					Tusculum Tusculum Tusculum is the classical Roman name of a major ancient Alban Hills city, in the Latium region of Italy.-Location:The ruins of Tusculum are situated on the Tuscolo hill, on the north edge of the outer crater ring of the Alban volcano...
					Troas Troas Troas or The Troad is the historical name of the Biga peninsula in the northwestern part of Anatolia,Turkey. This region now is part of the Çanakkale province of Turkey... ; Troad
					Tyre; Sur
					Tyrrhenia; Etruria Etruria Etruria — usually referred to in Greek and Latin source texts as Tyrrhenia — was a region of Central Italy, an area that covered part of what now are Tuscany, Latium, Emilia-Romagna and Umbria. A particularly noteworthy work dealing with Etruscan locations is D. H...

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Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Gyali Gyali Gyali is a volcanic Greek island in the Dodecanese, located halfway between the south coast of Kos and Nisyros. It consists of rhyolitic obsidian lava domes and pumice deposits. The island has two distinct segments, with the northeastern part almost entirely made of obsidian and the southwestern...
					Hybla Hybla In geography, Hybla may refer to any of several different sites in ancient Sicily:Megara Hyblaea, archeological site near AugustaHybla Heraea, hystoric quarter of modern Ragusa....
					Hydaspes; Jhelum Jhelum River Jehlum River or Jhelum River is a river that flows in India and Pakistan. It is the largest and most western of the five rivers of Punjab, and passes through Jhelum District...
					Hydrama; Drama Drama, Greece Drama is a town and municipality in northeastern Greece. Drama is the capital of the prefecture of Drama which is part of the East Macedonia and Thrace periphery. The town is the economic center of the municipality , which in turn comprises 53.5 percent of the prefecture's population, the highest...
					Hydrea; Hydra Hydra, Saronic Islands Hydra is one of the Saronic Islands of Greece, located in the Aegean Sea between the Saronic Gulf and the Argolic Gulf. It is separated from the Peloponnese by narrow strip of water...
					Hyccara
					Hysiae

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Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	Greek Alphabet	Transliteration	IPA	English
					Phaeacia; Scheria Scheria Scheria –also known as Scherie or Phaeacia– was a region of land in the eastern Mediterranean in Greek mythology, first mentioned in Homer's Odyssey as the home of the Phaiakians and the last destination of Odysseus before returning home to Ithaca.-Odysseus meets Nausikaa:In the...
					Falerii Falerii Falerii was one of the twelve chief cities of Etruria, situated about one mile west of the ancient Via Flaminia, c. 50 km north of Rome.- History and legend :...
					Phalerum
					Pharmakonisi Pharmakonisi Pharmakonisi, or Farmakonisi , is a small Greek island of the Dodecanese prefecture. It has also been known as Pharmakos, Farmaco, or Pharmakousa . It lies in the middle between the chain of the Dodecanese islands in the west, and the coast of Asia Minor in the east...
					Pharos Pharos Pharos may refer to:Lighthouses:* The Pharos of Alexandria, a tower built on the island of Pharos that became one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World* The Pharos, either of two Roman lighthouses built at Dubris...
					Pharsalus
					Phaselis Phaselis Phaselis is an ancient Lycian city in the province of Antalya in Turkey. It is located between the Bey Mountains and the forests of Olympos National Park, 16 km west of the touristic town of Kemer and on the 57th kilometre of the Antalya–Kumluca highway...
					Phasis; Rioni Rioni River The Rioni River is the main river of western Georgia. It originates in the Caucasus Mountains, in the region of Racha and flows west to the Black Sea. It enters the Black Sea north of the city of Poti...
					Pherae Pherae Pherae was an ancient Greek town in southeastern Thessaly. In mythology, it was the home of King Admetus, whose wife, Alcestis, Heracles went into Hades to rescue...
					Phthia Phthia Founded by Aiakos, grandfather of Achilles, it was the home of his father Peleus and his sea-nymph mother Thetis.In Crito, one of the dialogues written by Plato, while Socrates was condemned to death and awaiting his execution, he had a dream in which a woman told him that he would go to Phthia in...
					Phthiotis Phthiotis Phthiotis is one of the prefectures of Greece. The capital is the city of Lamia. It is bordered by the Malian Gulf to the east, Boeotia in the south, Phocis in the south, Aetolia-Acarnania in the southwest, Eurytania in the west, Karditsa in the north, Larissa in the north, and Magnesia in the...
					Fidenae Fidenae Fidenae, or Fidenes, home of the Fidenates, was an ancient town of Latium, situated about 8 km north of Rome on the Via Salaria, which ran between it and the Tiber. As the Tiber was the border between Etruria and Latium, the left-bank settlement of Fidenae represented an extension of Etruscan...
					Philadelphia Philadelphia (ancient cities) For other uses, see Philadelphia Philadelphia also refers to the following places:* Amman, Jordan was once called Philadelphia during the Hellenic and Roman eras.... ; Filadelfeia
					Philae Philae Philae is an island in the Nile River and the previous site of an Ancient Egyptian temple complex in southern Egypt...
					Philippines Philippines The Philippines officially known as the Republic of the Philippines, is a country in Southeast Asia with Manila as its capital city. It comprises 7,107 islands in the western Pacific Ocean....
					Philippopolis Philippopolis The term Philippopolis , which translates as "Philip's Town," may refer to the following cities:*Plovdiv, Bulgaria... ; Plovdiv Plovdiv Plovdiv is the second-largest city in Bulgaria after Sofia, with a population of 380,312. Known in ancient times as Philippoupolis, it is the administrative center of Plovdiv Province in southern Bulgaria and three municipalities and Bulgaria's Yuzhen tsentralen planning region , as well as the...
					Phlegethon Phlegethon In Greek mythology, the river Phlegethon or Pyriphlegethon was one of the five rivers in the infernal regions of the underworld, along with the rivers Styx, Lethe, Cocytus, and Acheron...
					Phlegra Phlegra Phlegra is a mythical location in both Greek and Roman mythology.It is a region of Macedonia in Greece. In Greek mythology, it is the site of Zeus's overthrowing of the Giants at the end of the Gigantomachy....
					Phlius Phlius Phlius was a Greek city in the northwestern Argolid, in the Peloponnese. Although geographically close to Argos, the city became a Spartan ally and a member of the Peloponnesian League....
					Florina Florina Florina is a town and municipality in mountainous northwestern Macedonia, Greece and its motto is, 'Where Greece begins'. It is also the Metropolitan seat for the region. It lies in the central part of Florina Prefecture, of which it is the capital. Florina belongs to the periphery of West Macedonia...
					Phoenicia Phoenicia Phoenicia what is now modern day Lebanon, was an ancient civilization centered in the north of ancient Canaan, with its heartland along the coastal regions of modern day Lebanon, extending to parts of Israel, Syria and Palestine... ; Canaan Canaan Canaan is an ancient term for a region encompassing modern-day Israel and Lebanon, the Palestinian Territories, plus adjoining coastal lands and parts of Jordan, Syria and northeastern Egypt...
					Pholegandros
					Pholoe
					Fourni Korseon
					Frankfurt Frankfurt Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2008 population of 670,000. The urban area had an estimated population of 2.26 million in 2001...
					Fregellae Fregellae Fregellae was an ancient town of Latium adiectum, situated on the Via Latina between Aquinum and