How old is the name of your country?

you mean When?

Edited by azimuth - 14-Jul-2006 at 03:32

According the most known written Greek  ancient source (Homer) the name Hellene (Greek) known since 8th cent B.C..

Originally posted by azimuth you mean When?   UAE is formed in 1972 as the official name of the union of the 7 emirates in the region.   Abu Dhabi the capital been called Abu Dhabi for more than 200 years,   Dubai's name too is older than 200 years old, Sharjah around 400 years or more as i remeber.

The word "Anatolia" dates back to 10th century B.C., when Achaeans began colonising western shores of our country. But it may also be a corruption of a Minoan word for the east.

The name of my country, AUSTRALIA, is derived from the Latin word, AUSTRALIS, meaning: of the South. Since ancient times there were whispers of a great unknown Land of the South, or TERRA AUSTRALIS INCOGNITA, but it was'nt untill the 17th century that either Portugese, Dutch or Spanish Explorers discovered it. Apparently the first use of the word Australia in English was in a 1693 English translation of a 1692 French Novel called: Les Adventures de Jacques Sadeur dans la D�couverte et le Voyage de la Terre Australe. The great navigator Matthew Flinders was the first to really popularise the name Australia in a book he wrote in 1814. Oh, and by the way, Flinders was also the first person to circumnavigate Australia. In 1817 the Governor of New South Wales reccomended that it should replace the name Terra Australis or New Holland. And in 1824 the British Admiralty agreed, and from then on the continent was known as AUSTRALIA.

PS. Leonardo, that really is a nice specimin of the ITALIA Social Denarius.

Originally posted by Cyrus Shahmiri Originally posted by azimuth you mean When?   UAE is formed in 1972 as the official name of the union of the 7 emirates in the region.   Abu Dhabi the capital been called Abu Dhabi for more than 200 years,   Dubai's name too is older than 200 years old, Sharjah around 400 years or more as i remeber.     Isn't Abu Dhabi the same ancient Ad-Dur? It was part of Sassanid empire.

I don't know the exact age of the name the Netherlands, but it was first used during the Burgundian era in the 15th century, to refer to a cluster of fiefdoms, including Holland, Brabant, Flanders, Artesia and Luxembourg, ruled by the dukes of Burgundy. It was used to differentiate between those lands and the 'upperlands', the Duchy and Free County Burgundy, and some smaller fiefdoms around that.

Edited by Mixcoatl - 14-Jul-2006 at 15:42

Lithuania first time mentioned in 1009 in Annales Quedlinburgenses:

Bulgaria (the Danubian one) was first mentioned as such a state in the peace treaty with the Eastern Roman empire from 681 AD, an year after the Byzantine defeat at the Onglos. And this year, 681, is now officially being thought as the formal birthdate of our nation.

The first historically recognised king in the unbroken line of monarchs in Denmark, King Gorm the Old - made this inscription in Runes ca. 950 AD:

kurmr kunukr   ..................   Gorm King
karthi kubl thusi   ..............   wrote "kumler" these
aft thurui kunu sina   .........   after Thyre wife his
tanmarkar but   ................   Denmark�s adornment

This is the earliest written source of the name on Danish soil.

Nevertheless the name had been used for at least 75 years in Europe . King Alfred the Great � king of Wessex  (871 � 899) and very interested in culture- made a geographical description of Northern Europe and used the word dene mearc about the Danish area. Regino�s Chronicle- written about 900 in the convent of Prum near Cologne- also mentioned Denimarca, so the name was already known when Gorm used it.