Greek Kingdom Name Generator

Greek kingdoms were almost always named for a place or a people, never for a dynasty. Homer's catalogue lists the realms of the Bronze Age by their chief city or region: Mycenae, Pylos, Ithaca, Phthia, Argos, Knossos, Sparta (Lacedaemon). The classical age replaced most of them with city-states and leagues, but kingship survived on the fringes in Macedon, Epirus (the Molossians), Thessaly, Cyprus's city-kingdoms and the hill cantons of Upper Macedonia such as Lynkestis, Orestis and Elimeia. After Alexander, the Hellenistic kingdoms took their names from territories again: the Ptolemaic kingdom of Egypt, the Seleucid empire, Attalid Pergamon, Pontus, Bithynia, Cappadocia, Commagene, Bactria and the Bosporan kingdom on the Black Sea.

When Greek speakers later needed new words for new states they still reached for geography: the Empire of Nicaea, the Empire of Trebizond, the Despotate of Epirus, the Despotate of the Morea, the Duchy of the Archipelago. So a convincing invented Greek kingdom is simply a convincing Greek place name, with or without a title; Greeks said Macedonia, not the Kingdom of Macedonia.

For invented names, build on Greek roots and endings: thalass- (sea), chrys- (gold), leuk- (white), hiero- (holy), -polis, -ia, -is, -os, -eia. Pair a coined realm like Thessalora or Kalydris with a real-sounding region and it will sit naturally beside Arcadia and Boeotia.