what is the meaning of sparta sparta?
The meaning of the name Sparta is Simple, Frugal. The origin of the name Sparta is Greek. This is the culture in which the name originated, or in the case of a word, the language. Ancient Greek place name. In Greek mythology, Sparta was the daughter of Eurotas and the wife of Lacedaemon, son of Zeus. Origin of the adjective spartan..
Sparta (Doric Greek: ÏÏÎ¬ÏÏÎ±, SpÃ¡rtÄ; Attic Greek: ÏÏÎ¬ÏÏÎ·, SpÃ¡rtÄ) was a prominent city-state in ancient Greece. In antiquity the city-state was known as Lacedaemon (Î»Î±ÎºÎµÎ´Î±Î¯Î¼ÏÎ½, LakedaÃ­mÅn), while the name Sparta referred to its main settlement on the banks of the Eurotas River in Laconia, in south-eastern Peloponnese. Around 650 BC, it rose to become the dominant military land-power in ancient Greece.