"Choreia (Ancient Greek: χορεία) is a circle dance accompanied by singing (see Greek chorus, choros), in ancient Greece. Homer refers to this dance in his epic ...
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poem, the Iliad.
Cognates of choreia are used for circle dances in a number of other countries:
khorovod (коровод), in Russia
khora (хора), in Ukraine
hora, in Romania and Moldova
horo (хоро), in Bulgaria
oro (оро), in North Macedonia and Montenegro
kolo (коло), in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia
kola [ru] (кола), in Belarus
valle, in Albania" - (en.wikipedia.org 03.01.2022)
