Another OT about Holland

[Vidar Svendsen]

Sigveld wrote:
>Well your country also has two names (at least in
>Norwegian) "Grekenland" (the same as Greece)and
>"Hellas".
>
>Can you tell us more about the difference between
>these terms?

If I remember correctly from my lessons in Koine Greek
the Romas couldn't say that they were more advanced  than the
Greek culturally, so they called them 'graece' (referring to a small
greek people/tribe/whatever) to make themselves better.
Or something like that.
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