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and what does yunanistan mean?

[DT.]

and what does yunanistan mean?

Those that came from the Ionian

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and what does yunanistan mean?

Those that came from the Ionian

you saying ionian = ionanistan = yunanistan ?...naww don't buy it...

but I could buy this one...
http://www.geocities.com/emperess_wu/yunan-seimifinal.html

get into half way of the 3rd paragraph and there might, lie the missing link... ...I always sensed there was a connection there...

[EPSILON]

and what does yunanistan mean?

Those that came from the Ionian

Can you explain this to Cristofias also?

[Tim Drayton]

According to a respected on-line etymological dictionary of Turkish

http://www.nisanyansozluk.com/search.as ... n&x=17&y=8

the word ‘Yunan’ came into the Turkish language from either Farsi or Arabic, which both use this word. It derives from the old Farsi word 'yōn' meaning, as DT has said, Ionian.

I could be wrong here, but I do not think this word was used much in Turkish until after the creation of the modern Greek state in 1829 when new words were needed to describe this state and its citizens.

[YFred]

and what does yunanistan mean?

Those that came from the Ionian

stan means land.
Yunanistan means the land that the Ionians live in.

Those that come from yunanistan are refered to as yunanli or rum or gavur depending on you political stand point.

[EPSILON]

According to a respected on-line etymological dictionary of Turkish

http://www.nisanyansozluk.com/search.as ... n&x=17&y=8

the word ‘Yunan’ came into the Turkish language from either Farsi or Arabic, which both use this word. It derives from the old Farsi word 'yōn' meaning, as DT has said, Ionian.

I could be wrong here, but I do not think this word was used much in Turkish until after the creation of the modern Greek state in 1829 when new words were needed to describe this state and its citizens.

YES you are right, because of the long time under Ottomans darkness other people forgot how "Hellines" were named.

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and what does yunanistan mean?

Those that came from the Ionian

stan means land.
Yunanistan means the land that the Ionians live in.

Those that come from yunanistan are refered to as yunanli or rum or gavur depending on you political stand point.

but deniz said that a rum can never be a yunan...

[Viewpoint]

does Greek mean Slave?

[YFred]

and what does yunanistan mean?

Those that came from the Ionian

stan means land.
Yunanistan means the land that the Ionians live in.

Those that come from yunanistan are refered to as yunanli or rum or gavur depending on you political stand point.

but deniz said that a rum can never be a yunan...

Only for the educated, for the peasant stock its all the same.