How did 'your' country get it's name?

As far as I remember history lessons at school (as far as I remember school!!), Scotland got it's name from a tribe that superseeded the Picts after the Romans decimated that nation of people. They were mostly Norse (but then so is most of northern europe).

I was wondering how Italy came to be called by that name; Who were the Portugese? Or have I got that round the wrong way?

Tell me, if you know, how 'your' country came to have the name it does.....

 

Well I didn't have a clue actually

But apparently...

"England: When Egbert, King of the West-Saxons, in 829, had subjugated the other six Saxon kingdoms, he summoned a general council at Winchester, at which it was declared that henceforth Britain should be called England, its people Englishmen, and himself King of England. Originally the name was Englaland, the land of the Engles, or Angles, who came over from Sleswick, a province of Jutland. Engel (variously spelled), is an old Teutonic word, meaning "angel"."

Englaland I guess England is catchier. But Englalaland beats both.
That's how it's gonna be should I ever conquer the joint.

 

Scotland was the name given to Scotland by the english, same way Ireland and Wales got their names.....off the English. The three countries real names are...

Scotland = Albann
Ireland = Éire
Wales = Cymru

Éire was derived from the mythical goddess Eiru who helped the Gaels conqeur Ireland, don't know about the other two.

 

I don't know...

Maybe because there was an old tribe thousands of years ago, named the "danes", who settled down in that land.
The term "vandals" origins from "Vendsyssel", where I live. The vandals moved from my area to north-africa (Tunesia and Marroco). Europeans was afraid of these people in north Africa. So they defined them as 'terrorists', and that's why the people named "Vandals" is connected to the understanding of the term "vandals".

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p.s. people in Marroco and Tunesia nowadays are children of people who originally lived, as a tribe, in northern Jutland, where I live now. And my ancestors came from somewhere else, also.

 

America was named after Amerigo Vaspucci; he was the first person to sail from Europe to South America I believe.

 

I think the vikings sailed across the Atlantic, and found the coast of New Foundland (Canada), where they settled down and named their colony "Vinland". That was in 900-1000, I think.

The vikings found Greenland by that time. Greenland is a part of the north american continent, connected to north-east Canada. If they found Greenland, they'd obviously also found America. They must have been following the coastline down south by some of their hundreds of expeditions. That's obviously.

I think the vikings were just trading peacefully with the native americans. There was no territorial fights, since Vinland was just a small settlement. It was a trade station, and there was some agriculture around, to feed the settlement. No history tells about war in the vikings oversea colonies. But they were cruel to the english!

 

I think England is named after the germanic tribe, the Angles who invaded us in the fifth and sixth centuries. "Albion", is an old alternative name for England that is supposed to come from Pliny ( a Roman) who called the country this because of the white cliffs of Dover.

 

Who were the Portuguese?!?! ​

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Our history is very exciting but it would take too much time to explain it like this, lolol, so...​

A long long time ago this land was Lusitania. Viriato and other brave warriors fought against the Romans, but after a long period of resistence they were betrayed and we were invaded... That's why the portuguese people are still called Lusitans and that's the reason of our epic's name "The Lusiads". Then came the Barbarian invasions and then the Moors occupation. The Christian Reconquest had success in the Iberic Peninsula and the Kingdom of Leão, among others, was created. The Shire of Portucale was ruled (not only but also) by Don Henrique and then by his son, Don Afonso Henriques, who started the whole process (not that pacific) of Independence, who proclaimed it and who became the first King of Portugal!​

 

ok. I have no BLOODY IDEA of why france was france.

I know it was " Gaule" for some time, and then it was france... I know some tribe called the Francs..

I dunno if france was called france because of the tribe, or vice-versa..

 

Sorry Bokonon, I was half asleep when I posted this morning so I have basically repeated your information ....but what a treasure you have discovered......let's start a campaign to rename our country. I have never had any aspirations towards being a monarch, but being Queen of EngLALAland, yup me and the rest of the teletubbies fancy that

 

Yeah weren't the Francs the same as were led by Charlamane? I'm nearly sure they conquered a good part of northern Italy as well, when the Romans were on their knees after many years of decline.
It sounds plausable that they gave their name to the modern France. I'm with you there!

 

My country has 2 names, the first and indigenous name is Aotearoa which translates to "the land of the long white cloud". The other name is what the first white chap who discovered it called it, and is better known by, New Zealand. I think tho since he was a Dutch chap (Abel Tasman) it was originally Neu Seeland.....which translates to New Lakeland.
I think the original Aotearoa is much cooler than New Zealand

 

no, he was an explorer who explored the interior of the continent for the first time.

 

Columbus was the first person to sail from Europe to America. He's the one who "discovered" it.

Anyhoo... Unfortunately I have no idea how Finland (Suomi) got her name. I tried Google, but couldn't find anything relevant.

 

Oooh that scissor photo isn't nice at all!

You should add a second to go with it, with them neatly closed on the desk somewhere...No ketchup though, that'd be really cruel

 

Thanks for the tip! :X

 

Charlemagne conquered the biggest part of Europe, and then divided it between it's sons!


Anyways, yea, it must be that... I'm no pro tho!

 

Don't know what 'Sweden' is supposed to mean, but the Swedish name, "Sverige" (pronounced kinda like 'swear-yeah'), derives from "Svea Rike", which means "kingdom of the swedes" if you translate "sve" as the vikings' word for a person living here at the time, i.e. a swede. Had to look that word up actually.

peace,
-Pat

 

"-rike"?
isn't it "empire of the swedes", rather than "kingdom of the swedes"? (Like in Sverike?)
("rige", snarere end "kongedømme"?)

The two terms has different symbolic meanings. -At least in the context of the viking-age(?).

love,
noose.

 

Suomi Finlandia? Maybe it has something to do with the tribes was it the 'Tschudes'? Maybe it's something to do with that? A lost tribe of deer herders displaced by the converging Slavonic tribes.