country names etymologies

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Something seems wrong with

PR's picture

Something seems wrong with these names

Where are you from?

Memias's picture

Where are you from?

Port of earth rules! xD

albinus's picture

Port of earth rules! xD
..:::FTW:::..

What happened to Wales? And

Prodnose's picture

What happened to Wales? And what happened to Scotland? Where are Corsica, Brittany, never mind the Isle of Man?

because scotland, wales,

holly's picture

because scotland, wales, corsica, brittany etc arent COUNTRIES you div.

Wales and Scotland are

Anonymous's picture

Wales and Scotland are countries retard.

The etymology of Italy is

Xander Ares's picture

The etymology of Italy is Land of Bulls not Land of Cattle. The name birth of King Italo ( etymology italòi = bulls), reigning of Catanzaro.

Actually, Scotland and Wales

Sam's picture

Actually, Scotland and Wales ARE countries, just like England, you gigantic douche.

Sam, although Scotland and

Heather's picture

Sam, although Scotland and Wales are countries as much as England is, the United Kingdom refers to them all collectively. The full name is the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Great Britain includes all of the countries on the larger island.

archaelogists don' really

allen's picture

archaelogists don' really seem to know where the Celts originated.

iceland is completely

kai's picture

iceland is completely wrong--it means island, not land of ice.a

wtf is a swede?

babababa's picture

wtf is a swede?

Judging by the shape,

Hantacica's picture

Judging by the shape, "Alliance of the ten tribes" is supposed to be Hungary - but however romantic that sounds, it's so wrong I wouldn't even be able to explain it with one Wiki link only...

Moldova doesn't mean River

K's picture

Moldova doesn't mean River Land, it is just assumed that it is named after a river with a similar name, although the etimology of the name is uncertain.

At least some of these are

David Hanneman's picture

At least some of these are rubbish.

"Fin" in Finland is likely to

auntiedragon's picture

"Fin" in Finland is likely to derived from "finnr" , finnr meant wanderer/finder in old germanic languages, so name for Finland would be maybe "Land of hunters". :)

Yup, land of open fields.

Chibiko's picture

Yup, land of open fields. It's exactly what Polska means ... :) pol - pole - field/fields. Mainly it's simply named land of fields...

no land of women?

bommtastik's picture

no land of women?

that is the old reign of

Ticketin's picture

that is the old reign of bitchia

Everything about this picture

Anonymous's picture

Everything about this picture is just wrong.....

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