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Until the Modern Era, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking.During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde.
Latin Name English Name Achaea [1] Greece: Africa [2] Tunisia: Aegyptus [3] Egypt: Aethiopia: Sub-Saharan Africa: Albania: Georgia, Azerbaijan: Anatolia [4] Turkey (East) Anglia: England: Arabia [3] Arabian Peninsula: Ariana: Afghanistan, Iran (East) and Central Asia (West) Armenia: Armenia Armorica [5] Brittany: Asia: Turkey (West) Baetica [6 ...
Here is a list of principalities and regions written in the Latin language and English and other names on the right. This is NOT a duplication of Roman provincial names.. cty. - county
NALA: North America and Latin America; NORAM or NA or NAMER: North American Region (Canada, United States, and Mexico) Nordics: in addition to the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Norway and Sweden, also Finland and Iceland are included.
The Bering Straits divide Asia from North America. On the southeast of Asia are the Malay Peninsula (the limit of mainland Asia) and Indonesia ("Isles of India", the former East Indies), a vast nation among thousands of islands on the Sunda Shelf, large and small, inhabited and uninhabited. Australia nearby is a different continent.
This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era.
Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. (Sometimes, the use of one or more additional words is optional.) Notable examples are cuisines, cheeses, cat breeds, dog breeds, and horse breeds. (See List of words derived from toponyms.)
The border between North America and South America is at some point on the Darién Mountains watershed that divides along the Colombia–Panama border where the isthmus meets the South American continent (see Darién Gap). Virtually all atlases list Panama as a state falling entirely within North America and/or Central America. [116] [117]