Hellas

Hellas, or Ellas refers to Greece as a whole, as the main name its modern inhabitants know it by.

Hellas, or Ellas may also refer to:

Places in Greece

• Ἑλλάς (Ellás), genitive Ἑλλάδος (Elládos), an ancient Greek toponym used to refer to:
  • The region of Achaea Phthiotis in Thessaly
  • According to legend, a city in Phthiotis, founded by Hellene.
  • Continental Greece, as opposed to the Peloponnese peninsula and the Greek islands
  • A name for all lands inhabited by Hellenes, i.e. all of ancient Greece, including the Greek colonies
  • Hellas (theme), a Byzantine province in southern Greece

On Mars

• Hellas quadrangle, a region of Mars
• Hellas Planitia, a plain within the impact basin associated with the albedo feature Hellas on Mars
• Hellas Montes, a mountain range on Mars

Ships

• Greek frigate Hellas (1826–1831), the first flagship of the modern Hellenic Navy
• Greek steamship Hellas (1859–1906)
• SS Taroona (1935–1989), an Australian transport ship of World War II; later sold and converted into a cruise ship named the Hellas

Other uses

• Empire of Nicaea, a Byzantine rump state
• Hellas (poem), by Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Ellas (TV series), a Mexican telenovela
• Hellas (personification), feminine representation of Greece
• "Ellas", a song by Tini from Un Mechón de Pelo

See also

• ELAS
• ELAS (disambiguation)
• Greece (disambiguation)
• Helles
• Hellenic (disambiguation)

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