Quote Originally Posted by Obelics
are you sure in modern greek it is still Gallia? do you speak greek? If it is so, it's very interesting...

regarding the other names, while we only use Francia for ex-Gallia, we can use Lusitania for Portogallo (when we want to use a more sophisticated language), and Penisola Iberica for Spagna (when we want to refer to geographic of both Spagna and Portogallo).

Ah.... and Germany is still Germania.

PS: anyway a lot of synonimous are going lost, cause young people only speak the language of the TV, i bet if i go on the street and ask what is Lusitania, nobody can answer anymore. But if i say Portogallo, everyone know, but just because the football...
Obelics, as Keravnos said in modern Greek is still Gallia...

I reported Swiss and France because i think for this 2 names we named different from the other countries...
And until now Peninsula Iberica is the geographical name for Spain and Portugal...

Krusader i think that you you are the only country in Europe that calls us as we call our selves...very interesting...

The East people,Arabs,Persian etc...calls us yunan from ionian tribe...