Country name etymologies

Admin — Fri, 10/23/2009 - 15:04

Yup, land of open fields.

Chibiko (not verified) — Wed, 12/16/2009 - 14:39

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

"Fin" in Finland is likely to

auntiedragon (not verified) — Wed, 12/09/2009 - 13:44

"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". :)

At least some of these are

David Hanneman (not verified) — Mon, 11/30/2009 - 13:43

At least some of these are rubbish.

Moldova doesn't mean River

K (not verified) — Tue, 11/24/2009 - 06:46

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.

Judging by the shape,

Hantacica (not verified) — Sat, 11/21/2009 - 07:25

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...

wtf is a swede?

babababa (not verified) — Fri, 11/20/2009 - 14:56

wtf is a swede?

iceland is completely

kai (not verified) — Sat, 11/14/2009 - 15:38

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

archaelogists don' really

allen (not verified) — Tue, 11/10/2009 - 10:40

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

Sam, although Scotland and

Heather (not verified) — Wed, 11/04/2009 - 01:06

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.

Actually, Scotland and Wales

Sam (not verified) — Sat, 10/31/2009 - 07:33

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

The etymology of Italy is

Xander Ares (not verified) — Sat, 10/31/2009 - 01:45

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

because scotland, wales,

holly (not verified) — Sun, 10/25/2009 - 17:36

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

What happened to Wales? And

Prodnose (not verified) — Sun, 10/25/2009 - 15:35

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

Port of earth rules! xD

albinus (not verified) — Sun, 10/25/2009 - 08:00

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

Where are you from?

Memias (not verified) — Sat, 10/24/2009 - 01:32

Where are you from?

Something seems wrong with

PR (not verified) — Fri, 10/23/2009 - 23:29

Something seems wrong with these names