English
Proper noun
Ancient Greece
- The Greek-speaking world in ancient times, geographically referring not only to modern Greece and southern Balkan peninsula but also to areas of Hellenic culture that were settled during ancient times by Greeks: Cyprus, the Aegean coast of Ionia, southern Italian peninsula and Sicily (known as Magna Graecia) and the scattered Greek settlements on the coasts of what are now Albania, Bulgaria, Egypt, Libya, southern France, southern Spain, Catalonia, Georgia, Romania, and Ukraine.
- The civilization that flourished around the Mediterranean Sea from the 3rd millennium to the 1st century BCE (including the first two European civilizations, Minoan and Mycenaean), known as the cradle of Western civilization.
Translations
ancient civilization of the Mediterranean
- Afrikaans: Antieke Griekeland
- Albanian: Greqia e lashtë f
- Arabic: الْيُونَان الْقَدِيمَة f (al-yūnān al-qadīma) (definite)
- Armenian: Հին Հունաստան (Hin Hunastan)
- Azerbaijani: Qədim Yunanıstan
- Belarusian: Старажы́тная Грэ́цыя f (Staražýtnaja Hrécyja), Эла́да f (Eláda) (poetic)
- Bengali: কদীম ইউনান (kodim iunan)
- Bulgarian: Дре́вна Гъ́рция f (Drévna Gǎ́rcija), Ела́да f (Eláda) (poetic)
- Burmese: ရှေးခေတ်ဂရိ (hre:hketga.ri.)
- Carpathian Rusyn: Старовіке Ґре́цько n (Starovike Grécʹko)
- Catalan: Antiga Grècia f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 古希臘 / 古希腊 (zh) (Gǔ Xīlà)
- Czech: Starověké Řecko n
- Danish: Oldtidens Grækenland n
- Dutch: Griekse oudheid, Oude Griekenland n
- Estonian: Vana-Kreeka
- Finnish: antiikin Kreikka
- French: Grèce antique (fr) f
- Galician: antiga Grecia f
- Georgian: ძველი საბერძნეთი (ʒveli saberʒneti)
- German: antikes Griechenland n
- Greek: αρχαία Ελλάδα f (archaía Elláda)
- Ancient: Ἑλλᾰ́ς f (Hellắs) (doesn't properly mean Ancient Greece)
- Hebrew: יוון העתיקה f (yaván ha-atiká) (definite)
- Hindi: प्राचीन यूनान m (prācīn yūnān), यूनान (hi) m (yūnān)
- Hungarian: Ókori Görögország (hu)
- Icelandic: Grikkland hið forna
- Indonesian: Yunani Kuno
- Irish: An tSean-Ghréig f
- Italian: Antica Grecia f
- Japanese: 古代ギリシャ (こだいギリシャ, Kodai Girisha)
- Kazakh: Ежелгі Грекия (Ejelgı Grekiä)
- Khmer: ក្រិកបុរាណ (krəc boraan)
- Korean: 고대 그리스 (Godae geuriseu)
- Kyrgyz: Байыркы Греция (Bayırkı Gretsiya)
- Lao: ເກຣັກບູຮານ (kek bū hān)
- Latin: Graecia antiqua f, Graecia (la) f
- Latvian: senā Grieķija f
- Lithuanian: senovės Graikija f
- Macedonian: Стара Грција f (Stara Grcija)
- Malay: Yunani Purba
- Maltese: Il-Greċja tal-Antika f (definite)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: Эртний Грек (Ertnii Grek)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: Antikkens Hellas n
- Pashto: لرغونی یونان
- Persian:
- Dari: یُونَانِ بَاسْتَان (yūnān-i bāstān), یُونَانِ قَدِیم (yūnān-i qadīm)
- Iranian Persian: یونانِ باسْتان (yunân-e bâstân), یونانِ قَدیم (yunân-e ġadim)
- Polish: Starożytna Grecja f
- Portuguese: Grécia Antiga f
- Romanian: Grecia Antică f
- Russian: Дре́вняя Гре́ция (ru) f (Drévnjaja Grécija), Элла́да (ru) f (Elláda) (poetic)
- Sanskrit: पौराणयवनसंस्कृति (paurāṇayavanasaṃskṛti)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: Античка Грчка f, Стара Грчка f
- Roman: Antička Grčka f, Stara Grčka f
- Sinhalese: පුරාණ ග්රීසිය (purāṇa grīsiya)
- Slovak: Staroveké Grécko n
- Slovene: Antična Grčija f
- Spanish: Grecia antigua f
- Swedish: antikens Grekland n
- Tagalog: Sinaunang Gresya
- Tajik: Юнони Қадим (Yunon-i Qadim), Юнони Бостон (Yunon-i Boston)
- Tatar: Борынгы Греция (Borıngı Gretsiyä)
- Thai: กรีซโบราณ (grìis-boo-raan)
- Turkish: Antik Yunanistan (tr), Eski Yunanistan
- Turkmen: Gadymy Gresiýa
- Ukrainian: Старода́вня Гре́ція f (Starodávnja Hrécija), Елла́да f (Elláda) (poetic)
- Urdu: قَدِیم یُونان m (qadīm yūnān)
- Uyghur: قەدىمكى گرېتسىيە (qedimki grëtsiye)
- Uzbek: Qadimgi Yunoniston
- Vietnamese: Hi Lạp cổ đại
- Yiddish: אוראַלט גריכנלאַנד n (uralt grikhnland)
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