Countries Names

I was searching the internet and found the meaning of a country name which is (Kuala lumpur) ,so i thought it will be nice to search for more countries name, and found these stories about the countries names roots.

*Belgium*
The name Belgium is derived from the Belgae, a people who inhabited the Gallia Belgica of the Roman Empire.Officially called the Kingdom of Belgium (Koninkrijk Belgie in Dutch and Royaume de Belgique in French)

*Bumbai*
Capital city od India ,The Portuguese fortified their possession by building forts at Sion, Mahim, Bandra, and Bassien which, although in disrepair, can still be seen. They named their new possession as "Bom Baia" which in Portuguese means "Good Bay".

*Brazil*
The name Brazil is derived from the Portuguese and Spanish word brasil, the name of an East Indian tree with reddish-brown wood from which a red dye was extracted. The Portuguese found a New World tree related to the Old World brasil tree when they explored what is now called Brazil, and as a result they named the New World country after the Old World tree.

*Canada*
The name Canada derives from a Huron-Iroquois word Kanata, which means village. Although Canada is the second largest country in the world and is consistently ranked in the top two countries in the world (first more often than not) for standard of living, it is still a village.

*Denmark*
The etymology of Denmark (Danish: Danmark) is uncertain because there are so few old sources, and the experts have two interpretations of the name. Both groups say -mark is a wild forest (uninhabited territory or lawless no-man's land). Dan-mark means: 1. An occupied hollow in a wild forest or: 2. A forest or border by the Danes.

*Egypt*
In pronouncing Hwt-ka-Ptah, the Greeks changed this world to Aegyptus (Aigyptos), which they used in their literature as the name of an Egyptian King (perhaps Ramesses, though in a fictional manner),
As a final note, it is interesting that the origin of "Coptic", a word which we today use to refer to the Christians of Egypt (and actually, the principle Christian church of Ethiopia, as well others throughout the world related to this form of Christianity), actually is derived from the word Copti. The Arabs who invaded Egypt in, like the Greeks, had problems pronouncing the term, Aegypti, which means "Egyptian citizen". Essentially, they changed the word to Copti.

*England*
The word "Anglican" just means "English" or "of England". It is rarely used to describe anything besides the Anglican Church, and there it just means that our branch of the church began in England. In England the Anglican Church is referred to as the Church of England.

*France*
The name France comes from Medieval Latin Francia, which literally means "land of the Franks, Frankland". Originally it applied to the whole Frankish Empire, extending from southern France to eastern Germany.

The name of the Franks itself is said to come from the Proto-Germanic word *frankon which means "javelin, lance". Another proposed etymology is that Frank means "the free men", based on the fact that the word frank meant "free" in the ancient Germanic languages. However, rather than the ethnic name of the Franks coming from the word frank ("free"), it is more probable that the word frank ("free") comes from the ethnic name of the Franks, the connection being that only the Franks, as the conquering class, had the status of freemen.

*German*
The name comes from Proto-Germanic *Alamanniz which may have one of two meanings, depending on the derivation of "Al-". If "Al-" means "all", then the name means "All men", suggesting that the tribe was a confederation of different groups. If "Al-" comes from the first element in Latin alius, "the other", then it is related to English "else" or "alien" and Alemanni means "foreign men", similar to the Allobroges tribe, whose name means "the aliens".
In English, the name "Almain" or "Alman" was used for Germany and for the adjective German until Shakespeare's times, with "German" first attested in 1520, used at first as an alternative then becoming a replacement. In Othello ii,3, (about 1603), for example, Shakespeare uses both "German" and "Almain" when Iago describes the drinking prowess of the English.

*Holland*
Etymologically the word Holland is derived holt land ("wooded land"). A popular, but incorrect, fake etymology holds that it is derived from hol land ("hollow land"), inspired by the low-lying geography of both the Dutch and the English region.

*Italy*
The word Italy derives from the Homeric (Aeolic) word ιταλός [1], which means "bull". Excavations throughout Italy have found proof of people in Italy dating back to the Palaeolithic period (the "Old Stone Age") some 200,000 years ago. The first Greek settlers, who arrived in Italy from Euboea island the 8th century BC, possibly named their new land "land of bulls".

*Kuala Lumpur*
capital city of Malizya, which means 'muddy river mouth'.

*Kuba*
In the 16th century, the Kuba (or Bakuba) peoples migrated from the north to their current location along the Sankuru River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The name Kuba, applied to a federation of eighteen tribes, was formed by the Luba: it means "people of the lightning". The Kuba kingdom was the home of a sacral kingship as in Nubia, Ife and Benin. Certain tribal customs and the twisted band and loop ornamentation show definite connections.

*Lebanon*
The word in Hebrew means white , and Because the highest peaks are covered with snow and ice all year round in Lebanon , so it is one of the reasons that Lebanon got its name.

*Mexico*
The word Mexico comes from Náhuatl. The original name of this area is metztli, which means Moon; xictli means navel or center; and co means place.
Mexico therefore means the place in the navel or center of the Moon.

*Spain*
Derives its name from the Phoenician word Sapan, which means "hidden".
In that context, Sapan refers to the desire to hide precious items to prevent them from being plundered by outsiders. Psalm 48:2 makes a reference to Mount Sapan, which is found in the Ugaritic tablets. Some scholars believe this is similar to the Hebrew word şafon (or saphon), which means North. And, finally (although there are likely to be numerous other entities), Sapan appears in Korean in the expression ipan-sapan, which means "do or die."

*Sudan*
It is one of the oldest words in the Egyptian language. It is used both as a determinative and as a title for the king. And because it is a title of the king, we can establish its use as early as the time of Menes, the first king of the first dynasty. This means that this word, and its associated words were written and used long before a Greek, or a Latin, or an Arabic language even existed.
As a determinative:--------------------------------------------------------------------------------(According to James Allen; Middle Egyptian, p435; from Gardiner's list: image M-23)Sedgephonogram: sw (su)ideogram: nswt "king" (nsut)"Sedge": swt (sut)--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

From this word, we get "Suten" - the "en" ending is a 1st person plural pronoun which means "we, us, our". This can be interpreted literally as "We who are from the Sedge country"; ie, Upper Egypt, the South, the Nile Valley, TaSeti...Thus, the south, Upper Egypt was the place from which sovereignty originated and the very seat of legitimacy.
Suteni: to be king, to ruleSuteni.t the state of being king, kingdom, kingship, sovereignty, royalty, rule (EWB;653a,b)

This ideology expressly includes the Sudan (the Ethiopia of the Ancients), as it was referred to as:Khentu Hon Nefer: "founders of the Excellent Order"Hon Nefer: "Excellent Order"Ta Khent:"land of the beginning"Eau: "the old country"

*Sweden*
means "the land of the Sveas."The first signs of human inhabitation in the area now known as Sweden date back to the end of the Ice Age in about 8000 B.C. Hunting and seafaring tribes lived in the region. In about 500 A.D., the Svea tribe established supremacy over the other tribes. Sverige, the Swedish word for Sweden.

*Venezuela*
Means 'Little Venice' in Spanish, the name given to this northerly country in South America by the early explorers when they found the natives living on the Sinamaica lagoon, in houses built on stilts, close to the present day oil rich city of Maracaibo.
I think It is so nice to know your country's name roots......

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