The word "Hellenic" is an effort to write a Greek word using English characters. So "Hellas" is an effort to write , where there is no "H" and the last vowel is accented instead of the first one.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hell also has some interesting notes.
The word "Hellenic" is an effort to write a Greek word using English characters. So "Hellas" is an effort to write ["Ελλάς"](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%95%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CF%82), where there is no "H" and the last vowel is accented instead of the first one.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hell also has some interesting notes.
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