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Abyssinia, a former name: Uncertain meaning. Latinized in 1735 from a Portuguese corruption Abassia [39] of the Arabic al-Ḥabašah ( الحبشة ), [200] from Ge'ez Ḥabbaśā ( ሐበሻ) or Ḥabaśā ( ሐበሣ ), first attested in 2nd- or 3rd-century engravings as Ḥbś or Ḥbštm ( ሐበሠ ), [201] of unknown origin.
The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the Paleolithic era.
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east. Europe shares the landmass of Eurasia with Asia, and of Afro-Eurasia with both Asia and Africa.
All exonyms are simply phonetic variations of the same root vrk/varka ( 𐎺𐎼𐎣) meaning wolf. [3] The full, official name of the country is simply "Georgia", as specified in the Georgian constitution which reads " Georgia is the name of the state of Georgia." [4] Before the 1995 constitution came into force the country's name was the ...
The etymology of the name of Italy has been the subject of reconstructions by linguists and historians.Considerations extraneous to the specifically linguistic reconstruction of the name have formed a rich corpus of solutions that are either associated with legend (the existence of a king named Italus) or in any case strongly problematic (such as the connection of the name with the grape vine ...
Europa (consort of Zeus) Europa on the back of Zeus turned into a bull. A fresco at Pompeii, contemporaneous with Ovid. In Greek mythology, Europa ( / jʊəˈroʊpə, jə -/; Ancient Greek: Εὐρώπη, Eurṓpē, Attic Greek pronunciation: [eu̯.rɔ̌ː.pɛː]) was a Phoenician princess from Tyre and the mother of King Minos of Crete.
Name of Hungary. "Iuhra", "the place of origin of Hungarians " ( inde ungaroru origo) on Sigismund von Herberstein 's map of AD 1549 of Moscovia, located east of the Ob River. Hungary, the name in English for the European country, is an exonym derived from the Medieval Latin Hungaria. The Latin name itself derives from the ethnonyms (H)ungarī ...
Amerigo Vespucci. The naming of the Americas, or America, occurred shortly after Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal, with the name given by German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller.