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Why is Greece not called in English by the name Hellas? The Greeks call their country Hellas and themselves Hellenes The names Greece and Greek are of Roman origin and were adopted from Latin Graecus into old High German as Crêch and then in all Germ
etymology - English Language Usage Stack Exchange Wiktionary gives a fairly full etymology: From Latin Graecia < Ancient Greek Γραικός (Graikos), a character in Greek mythology, the son of Thessalos, the king of Fthia, from whom Ἑλλάς (Hellas, “Greece”) and Ἕλληνες (Hellenes, “the Greeks”) got their names