KingMamba
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Indians called their land as Bharat and Greeks called their land as Ellada.
Greece or Yunan are foreign origin names like India, Hind, Hindustan. The Persian and Arabic name Yunan originated from Ionia which is now in Western Turkey.
Greece is not a foreign name it just became the name of all the tribes of Greece because that word derived from the Boeotian greek tribe of Graeci who came into contact with the Italians who then spread that name as the general name of all Greeks. The name however is indeginious.
Not before the cunning Philip was granted an honorary place in the Amphictyonic council. They were looked down upon by the rest of the Greeks for the unique way of Macedonian life,governance and unusual dialect.
So what history tells us the city states hated one another and spent a lot of time killing one another but do not forget who liberated Macedon from Persian rule later on and for what reason.