Greece
- Arcadia: from Arcas, the legendary eponymous leader of early Hellenic settlers
- Sparta: from Greek Σπάρτη spartē, a cord or rope made from the shrub spartos, a type of broom
- Macedonia, from Greek mak- (long, tall) - 'highland'.
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