<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Sep 9 2008, 04:41 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Sep 9 2008, 04:41 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->And here are the Hellenes referring to their country by its proper name Hellas in their English translation too - not just referring to it as Greece (Greece mentioned once on this entire page). And they can obviously write English very well:
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well, last year when Abdul Kalam visited Greece, her president Karolos Papoulias addressed Indian delegation in Sanskrit (what a shame none in our delegation could respond in Sanskrit or Greek), and in that address he called his country 'yavanadesha' which is the proper sanskrit name given to that country by India, and not 'Hella-bhumi' or 'Greece-desha'. My opinion, India, Bharat, Hindusthan, Aryavarta, more, - we should claim all these names equally as our own, although I prefer Bharat in communication including in English.
http://www.ysee.gr/index-eng.php?type=english&f=faq
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well, last year when Abdul Kalam visited Greece, her president Karolos Papoulias addressed Indian delegation in Sanskrit (what a shame none in our delegation could respond in Sanskrit or Greek), and in that address he called his country 'yavanadesha' which is the proper sanskrit name given to that country by India, and not 'Hella-bhumi' or 'Greece-desha'. My opinion, India, Bharat, Hindusthan, Aryavarta, more, - we should claim all these names equally as our own, although I prefer Bharat in communication including in English.