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| Crimea | 12/19/2024, 7:29 PM by Tovaryshka_Anya | |
In English I've always pronounced this like "krih-mee-uh" with a short i. I've heard native English speakers say that too.
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| Calcuta | 12/4/2024, 8:49 AM by Anonymous User | |
Also Catalan
- https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Calcuta - https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcuta (in Catalan) (Information from name #427957 originally submitted by an anonymous user) 1
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| Kolikota | 12/4/2024, 8:47 AM by Anonymous User | |
Also Odia
Transcription: କଲିକତା - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/କଲିକତା - https://or.wikipedia.org/wiki/କଲିକତା (in Odia) (Information from name #427952 originally submitted by an anonymous user) 1
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| Daniya | 11/30/2024, 11:10 AM by Tovaryshka_Anya | |
Russian pronunciation: /ˈda.nʲi.ɪ̯ə/
Ukrainian pronunciation: /dɑˈnʲi.jɐ/ 1
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| Bilorus | 11/30/2024, 11:08 AM by Tovaryshka_Anya | |
Pronounced /biˈlɔ.rʊsʲ/.
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| Berlin | 11/30/2024, 11:05 AM by Tovaryshka_Anya | |
Russian pronunciation: /ˈbʲɪr.lʲin/
Ukrainian pronunciation: /ˈbɛr.lʲin/ 1
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| Ameryka | 11/30/2024, 11:02 AM by Tovaryshka_Anya | |
Pronounced /ɐ.mɛˈrɪ.kɐ/.
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| Longyearbyen | 11/12/2024, 12:20 PM by NinjaEagle | |
I always thought that it was called that because the perpetual winter makes the years feel long here.
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| Lloret De Mar | 10/30/2024, 6:28 AM by Anonymous User | |
Lloret de Mar, a town on the Costa Brava in Spain's Catalonia region, is known for its Mediterranean beaches. The medieval hilltop Castle of Sant Joan, to the east, offers views over the area, while the central Iglesia de Sant Romà church provides examples of both Catalan Gothic and modernist architecture. On a cliff overlooking the sea, the Santa Clotilde Gardens were built in the style of the Italian Renaissance.
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| Roseau | 10/16/2024, 4:09 AM by Anonymous User | |
Also a river in Minnesota.
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| Dubay | 10/9/2024, 9:04 AM by Anonymous User | |
Also Armenian, Azerbaijani, Hebrew, Kazakh, Khmer, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Tajik, Uzbek
Pronunciation: doo-BIE (Eastern Armenian, Hebrew, Tajik Persian) too-PIE (Western Armenian) Transcription: Դուբայ (Armenian) Дубай (Belarusian, Bulgarian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian Cyrillic, Russian, Tajik, Ukrainian, Uzbek) דובאי(Hebrew) ឌូបៃ (Khmer) (Information from name #444596 originally submitted by an anonymous user) 1
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| Dunay | 10/9/2024, 9:02 AM by Anonymous User | |
Also Azerbaijani, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Uzbek.
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| Prince Edward Island | 10/8/2024, 4:59 PM by hello_1234 | |
Called L'Isle du Prince Edouard in French. It is shortened to IPE in French and PEI in English. Prior to colonization, it was a part of a greater territory of the Mi'kmaq people known as Mi'kma'ki, which also included Nova Scotia, New Brunskwick, and Newfoundland and Labrador, as well as parts of Maine and Quebec.
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| Nova Scotia | 10/8/2024, 4:57 PM by hello_1234 | |
The name Nova Scotia was given to the province by King James VI of Scotland. Prior to this, it had been known as Mi'kma'ki by the indigenous Mi'kmaq people, which also referred to the territory as a whole which spread across New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Maine.
When the French set up colonies in Nova Scotia, they referred to their occupied territory as Acadie (Acadia). When the British arrived, they had already been calling the land "New Scotland" It is called Nouvelle Ecosse in French, which means the same thing. 1
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| Valencia | 10/7/2024, 7:48 AM by colisman | |
Venezuela is misspelled in the description. [noted -ed]
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| Scunthorpe | 9/23/2024, 11:25 PM by NinjaEagle | |
This name is the origin of the term "Scunthorpe problem"
The Scunthorpe problem is the unintentional blocking of online content by a spam filter or search engine because their text contains a string (or substring) of letters that appear to have an obscene or otherwise unacceptable meaning. The problem was named after an incident in 1996 in which AOL's profanity filter prevented residents of the town of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire, England, from creating accounts with AOL, because the town's name contains the substring "cunt". (Wikipedia) Just a fun fact about this place name. 2
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| Boryslav | 9/2/2024, 10:48 PM by Hugo23 | |
Boryslav is a male name. It is the Ukrainian variant of the Slavic name "Borislav".
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| Jerusalem | 8/21/2024, 11:14 PM by Atarah Derek | |
Wow, this is wrong. The region's name was Salem. There was no city on that hill until the Israelites built one. That's why they called it Jerusalem; because it was founded in Salem. Its name means "foundation of peace," but it's a direct reference to a region, not a city, over which Melchizedek was king.
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| Londinium | 8/20/2024, 2:11 PM by LongTailCat3 | |
This name is pronounced /lon.di.ni.um/. [noted -ed]
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| Londinium | 8/20/2024, 2:08 PM by LongTailCat3 | |
In the original Latin alphabet this would have actually been spelled "LONDINIVM", as the original Latin alphabet did not have J, U, or W.
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| Missoula | 8/13/2024, 3:37 AM by Atarah Derek | |
So if I'm interpreting this correctly, the Salish named the area after the glacial lake, rather than the other way around. Now, that is most interesting. In everything I've been taught about Glacial Lake Missoula, no one has ever said anything about people living in the area at the time that it existed.
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| Athabasca | 8/12/2024, 10:28 PM by Atarah Derek | |
So Athabasca is an exonym? Huh. Don't know why I'm surprised; the majority of ethnonyms and demonyms are.
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| Denali | 8/12/2024, 10:22 PM by Atarah Derek | |
Means "the tall one" in Koyukon.
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| Berlin | 7/27/2024, 4:21 AM by Tovaryshka_Anya | |
Also Russian and Ukrainian [noted -ed], and can be an alternative transcription of the Belarusian Latin standard transcription (Bierlin). In Russian it is written as Берлин and in Ukrainian and Belarusian it is written as Берлін.
Edit: it says the usage is edited, but it's not [it's in the pending update -ed]. 1
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| England | 6/27/2024, 10:31 AM by Anonymous User | |
England is not a good name for a child or any human really, sorry.
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| Berlin | 6/7/2024, 8:08 PM by JodieVesterOrr | |
Also the name of a small town on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, named “America’s Coolest Small Town 2014.”
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| Antarktis | 5/5/2024, 12:23 PM by Anonymous User | |
Also Luxembourgish
- https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antarktis (in Luxembourgish) (Information from name #441229 originally submitted by an anonymous user) 1
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| Libiya | 5/5/2024, 12:23 PM by Anonymous User | |
Also Crimean Tatar, Dhivehi
Transcription: Либия(Crimean Tatar) ލީބިޔާ(Dhivehi) - Crimean Tatar: https://crh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libiya (in Crimean Tatar) - Dhivehi: https://dv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%DE%8D%DE%A9%DE%84%DE%A8%DE%94%DE%A7 (in Dhivehi) (Information from name #341126 originally submitted by user HL) 1
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| Libye | 5/5/2024, 12:21 PM by Anonymous User | |
Also Yiddish
Transcription: ליביע(Yiddish) - https://yi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9C%D7%99%D7%91%D7%99%D7%A2 (in Yiddish) (Information from name #339485 originally submitted by user HL) 1
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| Liviya | 5/5/2024, 12:20 PM by Anonymous User | |
Also Karakalpak
- Karakalpak: https://kaa.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liviya (in Karakalpak) (Information from name #339488 originally submitted by user HL) 1
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| Sicília | 5/5/2024, 12:19 PM by Anonymous User | |
Also Slovak.
• Slovak: https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sic%C3%ADlia_(auton%C3%B3mny_regi%C3%B3n) (in Slovak) (Information from name #335820 originally submitted by user Lucille) 1
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| Sicilia | 5/5/2024, 12:19 PM by Anonymous User | |
Also Malay, Norwegian, Romanian, Tagalog
• https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Sicilia (in English) • Malay: https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilia (in Malay) • Norwegian: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilia (in Norwegian) • Romanian: https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilia (in Romanian) • Tagalog: https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sicilia (in Tagalog) (Information from name #335835 originally submitted by user Lucille) 1
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| Sizilien | 5/5/2024, 12:18 PM by Anonymous User | |
Also Luxembourgish.
• Luxembourgish: https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sizilien (in Luxembourgish) (Information from name #321368 originally submitted by user Lucille) 1
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| Uruguái | 5/5/2024, 12:17 PM by Anonymous User | |
Also Asturian.
- https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urugu%C3%A1i (in Asturian) (Information from name #434083 originally submitted by an anonymous user) 1
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| Urugwaj | 5/5/2024, 12:16 PM by Anonymous User | |
Also Maltese.
- https://mt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urugwaj (in Maltese) (Information from name #421775 originally submitted by an anonymous user) 1
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| Santiago | 4/10/2024, 11:29 AM by J9609D | |
Santiago de Compostela is the capital of northwest Spain’s Galicia region. It’s known as the culmination of the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route, and the alleged burial site of the Biblical apostle St. James. His remains reputedly lie within the Catedral de Santiago de Compostela, consecrated in 1211, whose elaborately carved stone facades open onto grand plazas within the medieval walls of the old town.
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| Tanni | 4/8/2024, 11:26 AM by mercuryeater | |
The spelling is incorrect. It should be Taani. [noted -ed]
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| Elysium | 3/5/2024, 7:40 PM by Anonymous User | |
The musician Elliotly has a song named "Elysium after death".
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| Atlanta | 1/12/2024, 4:37 AM by Robin-King010 | |
Don’t forget, it was burned by Union forces under General Sherman during the Civil War.
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| Nigeria | 1/7/2024, 8:18 AM by Crystal_Wolf | |
This name is also Croatian, from the "Niger" beginning of this name.
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| Atlantis | 12/24/2023, 11:07 PM by best | |
Pretty.
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| Haiti | 12/7/2023, 7:18 AM by ciara23 | |
Haiti comes from Ayiti, which means "land of high mountains" from the Indigenous Taíno people of Hispaniola. The name was restored by the Haitian Revolution leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines to rename the newly independent Saint-Domingue (What we know as Haiti today), in honor of the islands Amerindian predecessors.
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| Duluth | 12/3/2023, 6:34 AM by taylororona | |
When the fur traders came to early America in roughly 1749 (before Lewis and Clark...), French fur trader Daniel Duluth came to Minnesota to secure land for France and is possibly guilty of replacing an early a land claim stone written in an old ruin script thought to be left in 1362 from earlier traders in connection with the Knights of Templar (the Kennsington stone). Duluth has only recently been implicated in secretly switching these land claim stones from 1749 in hopes of securing land in the "New World" for the French government, namely to impress the King of France.
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| Ashur | 12/2/2023, 5:36 AM by Israella | |
Also Hebrew
Native transcription: אשור usage: Biblical Hebrew and Hebrew https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%A8 https://translate.google.co.il/?sl=en&tl=iw&text=assyria&op=translate 1
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| Bilorus | 11/2/2023, 6:31 PM by Anonymous User | |
It is pronounced different because "Belarus" means "white Russia" [from Russian "белая" (belaya) and "россия" (rossiya)] and in Ukrainian white is spelled as "біла" (bila) so therefore spelling of Belarus is Bilorus
In Ukraine it is pronounced "bee-loh-rroos" (also, I gave the colours in feminine form) 1
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| Ukrayina | 11/2/2023, 6:24 PM by Anonymous User | |
Pronounced like "Oo-krah-yee-nuh" to an English speaker.
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| Rwenzururu | 10/16/2023, 7:24 PM by amanh | |
Rwenzururu is a subnational kingdom in western Uganda, located in the Rwenzori Mountains on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is also the name given to the region in which the kingdom is located.
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| Makuria | 10/16/2023, 7:15 PM by amanh | |
Makuria was a medieval Nubian kingdom in what is today northern Sudan and southern Egypt.
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| Romani | 10/12/2023, 3:15 PM by Anonymous User | |
Romani appears in the video game Legend of Zelda, Majora's Mask by Nintendo. She is the younger sister of Cremia, who runs Romani Ranch.
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| Mérida | 10/7/2023, 4:45 PM by Paradiso36 | |
It's pronounced meh-ree-dah.
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