English to afrikaans meaning of

Griekeland is 'n land in Suidoos-Europa wat bekend is vir sy antieke beskawing, kultuur en geskiedenis. Die woord "Griekeland" kan ook verwys na die Helleense Republiek, wat die amptelike naam van die land is.

Sentence Examples

  1. In old Greece, in old Rome he flourish in Germany all over, in France, in India, even in the Chernosese and in China, so far from us in all ways, there even is he, and the peoples fear him at this day.
  2. Generally everything about his profile, she felt, had a taste of staleness and seventies Greece.
  3. Then began his travels, his duels, his caprices then the insurrection in Greece broke out, and he had served in the Grecian ranks.
  4. Such was the end of the Ingenious Gentleman of La Mancha, whose village Cide Hamete would not indicate precisely, in order to leave all the towns and villages of La Mancha to contend among themselves for the right to adopt him and claim him as a son, as the seven cities of Greece contended for Homer.
  5. Handed down from that time, then, this order of chivalry went on extending and spreading itself over many and various parts of the world and in it, famous and renowned for their deeds, were the mighty Amadis of Gaul with all his sons and descendants to the fifth generation, and the valiant Felixmarte of Hircania, and the never sufficiently praised Tirante el Blanco, and in our own days almost we have seen and heard and talked with the invincible knight Don Belianis of Greece.
  6. Fernand sought and obtained leave to go and serve in Greece, still having his name kept on the army roll.
  7. Lusitania had a Viriatus, Rome a Cæsar, Carthage a Hannibal, Greece an Alexander, Castile a Count Fernan Gonzalez, Valencia a Cid, Andalusia a Gonzalo Fernandez, Estremadura a Diego García de Paredes, Jerez a Garci Perez de Vargas, Toledo a Garcilaso, Seville a Don Manuel de Leon, to read of whose valiant deeds will entertain and instruct the loftiest minds and fill them with delight and wonder.
  8. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece And the grandeur that was Rome.
  9. He dressed in the picturesque costume worn upon grand occasions by the inhabitants of the south of France, bearing equal resemblance to the style adopted both by the Catalans and Andalusians while La Carconte displayed the charming fashion prevalent among the women of Arles, a mode of attire borrowed equally from Greece and Arabia.
  10. From that point on though, the fact that Panopoulos, who was possibly feeling suffocated in the stifling environment of YPEXODE saw in liter-ature the opportunity that his narcissistic character was searching for to escape the misery of the poor little pen pusher, to prove his worth to all of Greece, as well as supplementing his livelihood, was an at-tractive scenario.