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Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by thaumasiotes on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @08:40AM (#32068983)
> The whole Middle East has called it some variation of Yunan (Yunanistan specifically meaning "Land of the Yunan") for about 3000 years. It derives from Ionian

> the name is baked into everything (modern and historical) from Hebrew to Persian to Arabic to Assyrian.

The term is also used in Han China for the Greek kingdom that came to exist near them. There would have been no real awareness of the original region of Ionia, though there was rudimentary awareness of the Roman Empire a bit later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dayuan

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Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by emmelaich on Tuesday July 12, 2022 @07:19PM (#32077062)
I wonder whether that applies to Yunnan as well. It is the most westerly high population province of China.
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Re:ISO name change for Türkiye by thaumasiotes on Wednesday July 13, 2022 @03:25AM (#32079886)
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yunnan#Etymology

This suggests that the reason for the name isn't really known, but no one thinks it might refer to the Greeks.

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