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Re:The Naming of America (2001) by joegibbs on Monday October 07, 2024 @07:57PM (#41772406)
It's an interesting coincidence that Armorica sounds like America but I don't think it's very indicative of anything more than that - there are probably a lot of places that sound like "America". There is a Georgia in the US and a Georgia in the Caucasus with totally different etymologies. There's also an Albania in the Caucasus and Scotland was known in ancient times as Albania - and neither is etymologically related to the Balkan Albania. There's also a Galicia in Spain (with a similar root to the Gauls) and a Galicia in Poland and Ukraine (which could possibly be Celtic, but could also be of Slavic origin).
Re:The Naming of America (2001) by throaway915 on Monday October 07, 2024 @08:02PM (#41772442)
Also Iberia in the Caucasus and Iberian peninsula
Re:The Naming of America (2001) by croisillon on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @09:48AM (#41777345)
Karnak, the ancien site in Egypt and Carnac, the ancient site in Brittany