List of traditional Greek place names

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

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Names of places - Greek language

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• Places involved in the history of Greek culture—including Ancient Greece, the Hellenistic world, the Roman Empire, the New Testament, the Byzantine Empire, the Ottoman Empire and modern Greece and Cyprus, as well as important Greek-speaking minorities—and the Greek language names given to them.
• 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.

Though this list includes toponyms from Roman times, this list does not include later wholly Latin-derived names that have no Greek linguistic involvement nor significant Greek-speaking communities. A notable exception may be places such as Australia, which has one of the largest modern Greek-speaking communities outside Greece and Cyprus.

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Latin - Australia

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Both koine and modern forms and transliterations (including polytonic spellings) are listed if available. This list is incomplete, and some items in the list lack academic detail.

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Koine - Modern - Polytonic

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As a historical linguistics article, this list is an academic lexicon for the history of Greek place names, and is not a formal dictionary nor gazetteer and should not be relied upon as such.

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Historical linguistics - Lexicon - Dictionary - Gazetteer

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Indeed, many toponyms in Modern Greek now have different names than were used in by Greek-speaking communities in the past. An example is Malta, which was called ?????? (Melít?) 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).

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Modern Greek - Malta - Maltese

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However, in other cases, Modern Greek has retained archaic names (sometimes with grammatical modifications). An example of this is Naples, Italy, originally a Greek colony that is now Romance-speaking. The Classical Greek name was ???????? (Neápolis), different from the modern local name (Italian Napoli, Neapolitan Napule), but the Modern Greek name is ??????? (Neápoli), a direct evolution of the classical name.

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Naples, Italy - Romance - Italian - Neapolitan

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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, Cyprus, Egypt, Russia, the Ukraine and the Crimea.

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Turkey - Cyprus - Egypt - Russia - Ukraine - Crimea

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