Ellada

English

Etymology

From Greek Ελλάδα (Elláda). Doublet of Hellas.

Proper noun

Ellada

1. (rare) Greece.
   • 1902, The Maccabæan, volume III, New York, N.Y., page 167:

     How and in what manner is this transaction to be accomplished? / In the manner in which the Greeks regained possession of their historic land—the Ellada and its islands. / As a reward to Ellada of antiquity for her presenting the world with her philosophy, art and wonderful science; as an appreciation of gratitude for the great sons she has given to mankind in the persons of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Æschylus, Sophocles and other men of genius who have enriched mankind and who have presented humanity with marble gods and goddesses, such as Minerva, Apollo and the ox Forneszky; in recognition of all these the Powers of the world agreed to have Ellada restored to her descendants.

   • 1928, Dmitri Merejkowski, translated by Bernard Guilbert Guerney, The Romance of Leonardo da Vinci, New York, N.Y.: The Modern Library, page 115:

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

   • 1958, Kathleen Taylor, Going to Russia? A Popular Guide for Tourists, London: Lawrence & Wishart, page 161:

     Settled life on the Black Sea Coast was started in the sixth century b.c. by Greeks from Ellada who founded Pantikapea, Phanagoria, Chersones and other thriving colonies.

   • 1994, Diana Lewis Burgin, Sophia Parnok: The Life and Work of Russia’s Sappho (The Cutting Edge: Lesbian Life and Literature), New York, N.Y., London: New York University Press, →ISBN, page 154:

     She feels the breath of Ellada in a breeze from beyond the sea, a breeze, unsensed by other people, stirs her heart: it seems to the maiden she will dream out your dreams, Sappho, she will finish your songs, which have not reached our ears.

   • 2010, Aleksandr Chudakov, translated by Olga Tabachnikova and Adam Ure, “Chekhov and Merezhkovskii: Two Types of Artistic-Philosophical Consciousness”, in Anton Chekhov Through the Eyes of Russian Thinkers: Vasilii Rozanov, Dmitrii Merezhkovskii and Lev Shestov, London, New York, N.Y.: Anthem Press, →ISBN, part two (Dmitrii Merezhkovskii), page 102:

     The power of logical constructions is clearly visible in the foundations of [Dmitrii] Merezhkovskii’s Weltanschauung – his feelings towards Christianity. For him, Christianity is only ascetic (‘the black, colourless shadows of monks’ on the marble of Ellada in his Julian the Apostate).

   • 2010, Vasily Sesemann, translated by Mykolas Drunga, edited by Mykolas Drunga and Leonidas Donskis, Selected Papers, Amsterdam, New York, N.Y.: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 35:

     We should remember that in antiquity, during the period of the greatest flourishing of classical art, elementary education in the public schools of Ellada consisted largely of the Homerian epos and its recitation to the musical accompaniment provided by the pupils themselves.

   • 2013, Dimitri Harakidas, The 99 …and the 99 Choices That We All Need to Embrace in Order to Improve the Way Our Planet, and Everything Else Within It, Is Treated…, →ISBN, page 98:

     In 1978, as Ellada was about to join the European Economic Community (EEC), its per capita GDP was just 5% below the European average PPP (Purchasing Power Parity) basis. In 2000, the gap was 30%. In retrospect, Ellada’s entry into the EEC has been seen as a political gesture, and in many ways it was; […]

   • 2021, Anastasiia Deniz Mitchell, Prodigy. Roxanne Mitchell’s Diary‎^[1], →ISBN:

     I took to Ellada when I was a toddler: Mum and me visited it at the time. I wanted to speak Greek most of all. My love for the land is simply unexplainable.

   • 2022, Serhij Abramyk, Enlightening Message‎^[2], →ISBN:

     Soon the asteroid Apophis will destroy your palaces, and your armies will graze the grass and die from lack of food and diarrhea, like troops of Xerxes retreating from Ellada.