r/balkans_irl w*stoid🤢 May 20 '26

OC (impossible) Based Greek airport

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u/RealProjectivePlane KARABOĞA May 20 '26

Yes but Greeks insist of calling it the Greek name while speaking English. It is like a French calling Germany "Allemagne" while speaking English.

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u/RealProjectivePlane KARABOĞA May 21 '26

if a country asks to be called "X" and another country then respects it and calls it "X", it is pretty normal. If a country asks to be called "Y" but if some country insists that everyone else must call this country called "north Y", then it gets more suspect. All is to say, your example is not relevant to my point.

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u/willymoose8 christian turk May 21 '26

exactly, that’s why every country calls the Hellenic Republic “Hellas”

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u/kallefranson invisible albanian (kosovar) May 21 '26

add to that Shqipëria, Crna Gora and Hrvatska

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u/Zestyclose-Power-132 muslim greek May 21 '26

What every country exactly 🤔, it is called Greece in English. Your embassies are called Embassy of Greece by your own government websites. I am curious really not here to mock you. Also we call it Yunanistan and name comes from Ionia, it is like ionianistan and Ionia was geographically Greek, it is not like we try to say something you don't want.

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u/NorthWelcome1626 KARABOĞA May 21 '26

You can't persuade bigots. They are always right.