Re:Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found
by dragonwriter on Monday August 14, 2017 @01:28PM
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IIRC, “Spain”, like “Germany”, was a geographic name long before it identified a particular polity.
In any case it's a geographic name coextensive with a modern polity now, and a modern speaker using it to identify a geographic location even for events that predate the modern polity is normal and clear.
Re:Why Genghis Khan’s tomb can’t be found
by devuo on Monday August 14, 2017 @03:13PM
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Hispania != Spain. In any case, the westernmost region on the Iberian peninsula was and still is occupied by a country then known and still known as Portugal.
In any case it's a geographic name coextensive with a modern polity now, and a modern speaker using it to identify a geographic location even for events that predate the modern polity is normal and clear.