Based

I mean why do norwegians call them Hellas?

BASED

because we call a country or city the same way the people from there call them

Do you say Moskva too ?

Nice
Call us Sakartvelo then pls

Me too. Im not sure but it seems like the only logical thing
unless this user is right

I thought the old Arab/Turkish name for Greece was Rum?
>Arabs called Hispania "Andalus" because they thought the Vandals were from there.
Wiki says Spain is called Ispanya in Arabic

We do.

when norway became independent from sweden in 1905 the push to differentiate the language from danish intensified and committees were formed to determine norwegian exonyms for other countries. they picked hellas for greece to differentiate from danish "Grækenland"

he was talking about the caliphate of al andalus

No you don't
t. Suomi

-stan means country

That's kind of sad. You lose the unique place names that originate from different cultures when this is done.

We renamed pretty much everything...

what do you call Moskva then if not Moskva?

>bulgaristan
lel

that's because norwegians are swedepilled when it comes to Finland.

my mistake

We've always called them Greeks.
Hellas (or Elada) is what we call the ancient "Greeks".

The only sad thing is calling Hellas for some gay latin shit

Basically this. Hellada is the Ancient Greece.

It's Maskva, not Moskva.

I use the Swedish name, mostly because of all the Swedish tour guides we had during my childhood holidays in Greece