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Help[Facts] Re: Meaning of Thessaly?
in reply to a message by grace&glory
Hi !!!
Thessaly comes from Thessalia.
But Thessalia comes from Tessares + Ellás.
Tessares means "four" because Thessalia was devided into four districts.
Ellás (or Hellás) is well known because it was the ancient name of Greece. But it has a meaning too.
Goddess Ella (or hero Ellas) were the ancestors of Ellrnic people.
Other Etymology of Ellas is Sellas that derives from Selene+Ellas. Selene was the goddess of the moon so Ellas mean "where the moon is venerated" or "lunar land, barren land".
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So Thessalia (and Thessaly) mean simply "four lands of Ellas people" while literaly "four lands where Selene is venerated" or "four barren lands")
Augusto Aurelio Bruno Filippo Flavio Leone Luigi Stefano Valerio
Alba Anastasia Angelica Cassandra Corinna Dafne Diana Dora Fiammetta Flora Gelsomina Ginevra Lavinia Luna Morgana Olimpia Perla Rosa Rossella Serena Stella Susanna
Thessaly comes from Thessalia.
But Thessalia comes from Tessares + Ellás.
Tessares means "four" because Thessalia was devided into four districts.
Ellás (or Hellás) is well known because it was the ancient name of Greece. But it has a meaning too.
Goddess Ella (or hero Ellas) were the ancestors of Ellrnic people.
Other Etymology of Ellas is Sellas that derives from Selene+Ellas. Selene was the goddess of the moon so Ellas mean "where the moon is venerated" or "lunar land, barren land".
...
So Thessalia (and Thessaly) mean simply "four lands of Ellas people" while literaly "four lands where Selene is venerated" or "four barren lands")
Augusto Aurelio Bruno Filippo Flavio Leone Luigi Stefano Valerio
Alba Anastasia Angelica Cassandra Corinna Dafne Diana Dora Fiammetta Flora Gelsomina Ginevra Lavinia Luna Morgana Olimpia Perla Rosa Rossella Serena Stella Susanna
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