Refugees of the Greek Civil War these children were "Greek" but no distinction was made regarding the ethnicity of the children. There were also ethnically Macedonian and Albanian children who had also been sent to the country. Unlike the rest of Eastern Europe the Macedonian language was not taught to the children in Germany, since the majority were Greek Macedonians. Mostly, the Greek children would end up returning to Greece. A large proportion of the adults who had left Europe ended up in the United States, Canada and Australia. Thousands would go on to establish themselves in the hope of returning to Europe. The 1950s witnessed
Names of the Greeks "Graikoi" (). In Greek mythology, Hellen, the patriarch of Hellenes, was son of Deucalion (who ruled around Phthia) and Pyrrha, the only survivors after the great deluge. Hesiod is referring to Graecus son of Pandora, who was sister of Hellen. Alcman mentions that the mothers of "Hellenes" were "Graikoi". The German classical historian Georg Busolt (1850–1920) derives the name from "Graikos","inhabitant of Graea, a town on the coast of Boeotia. The name "Graea" (γραῖα) is derived from Proto-Greek "grau-j-", "old lady". Homer, while reciting the Boeotian forces in the "Iliad"'s Catalogue of Ships, provides the first known reference to a