Which modern day country's name comes from the Latin for Black Mountain?
The Black Mountain The Black Mountain The Black Mountain is a Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout, first published by the Viking Press in 1954. The story was also collected in the omnibus volume "Three Trumps" (Viking 1955). This book and the pre-war novel "Over My Dead Body" both involve international intrigue over Montenegro, but under very different circumstances, first concerning Nazi designs on the Balkans, and later in the context of Tito's Yugoslavia. In "The Black Mountain", Nero Wolfe's oldest friend and fellow Montenegrin Marko Vukcic is murdered by a Yugoslavian agent who has already made his escape from New York.
Name of Greece Name of Greece The name of Greece differs in Greek compared with the names used for the country in other languages and cultures, just like the names of the Greeks. The ancient and modern name of the country is "Hellas" or "Hellada" (; in polytonic: ), and its official name is the Hellenic Republic "Helliniki Dimokratia". In English, however, the country is usually called Greece, which comes from the Latin "Graecia" (as used by the Romans) and literally means 'the land of the Greeks'. The English name "Greece" and the similar adaptations in other languages derive from the Latin name