The names of countries and regions usually do not always correspond to the primordial names, which they gave them the peoples who lived there before the century. We have already written about popular countries with Japan and Finland, and now they decided to tell about the less obvious territories, for example, Greenland. However, why go far - even Armenia and Abkhazia are actually called a completely different way.
Adme.ru prepared the second part of the selection with the original names of different states, and from the bonus you will learn how the invasions were originally called in our country.
Austria
The name of the country comes from the ancient Ostarrîchi - "Eastern State". The word "Austria" is a latinized version of the original name of the country. Because of him, by the way, a small confusion arose. The fact is that OST in German means "East", and Auster in Latin - "South".
Armenia
The origin of the word "Armenia" goes back to the ancient name of the Armi region. According to another version, Toponym originated due to the name of the Urthi Tsar Aram. Whatever it was, the self-configuration of Armenia has nothing to do with these words and sounds like "Ik". In the Middle Ages, the country was called Ayastan. The origin of this title also has several versions. According to one of them, it comes from the mythological leader of Armenians, Aka, who, according to legend, in 2492 BC. e. broke in the battle of the Tsar Babel.
Butane
It is believed that the name "Bhutan" occurred from the Tibetan language from the roots of BOD ("Tibet") and Anta ("Okrain"), that is, "Tibet's outskirts". From the Tibetan language, the name went into a number of Indian languages and in the form of the word "Bhutan" reached us. And in fact, the country is called Druk-Yul, which can be translated as the "Dragon Country".
Germany
As soon as Germany is called in different languages of the world: Allemagne - in French, Saksa (Saksa) - on Finnish, Thishland (Tyskland) - on Danish, Germans (NIEMCY) - in Polish. Although the Germans themselves call their country Deutschland. According to one of the versions, the word dates back to Pragerman's word þeodisk [θEodisk], "referring to the people", and implied the language first. In other languages, the names of the country appeared due to the words that were taken to designate the tribes living in those territories. The French called them allems, Danes - Tixes, etc. The word "Germany" occurred from the Celtic word Gair - "Neighbor".
Greenland
The name of Greenland ("Green Earth") came up with Norwegian Viking Eric Redhead - with the help of such a name he hoped to attract as many new settlers as possible, although the green stern northern island can be called with great difficulty. In the Greenland language, he is called Calallit Nunat (Kalallit Nunaat) - "Calallitis Earth", one of the pepologies of the Greenland Eskimos.
Morocco
The country is officially referred to as Al-Mamlyakat, L-Magnibiyat, literally - the Kingdom of Maghribia, abbreviated - El Máginb. "Maghreb" means "where the sunset" means "where the sunset", which is quite logical, given its geographical location on the north-west coast of Africa. The name Morocco came from French, where the country was called MAROC. This word happened from the title of the capital, Marrakesh, and it, in turn, most likely, from Berber Amur Akush - "The Earth of God".
Northern Ireland
Tuaisceart Éireann is the so-called country in Irish. Samulation is translated simply: "Island to North".
North Korea
In Korean, the name of the country sounds like "Choson", and the root with the "North" value in the word is not. In general, the division into North and South Korea is only in foreign languages. On Korean in the name of the countries there is nothing in common, South Korea sounds like "Hanguk". The name of Coson existed long before the arrival of Kim Il Senia and the Korean War - the so-called the ruling dynasty, in which the state flourished. In addition, the word "Choson", recorded by Chinese hieroglyphs, means the "country of the morning freshness". That is why the name decided to return when 2 new countries appeared on the map.
Wales
Samulation of Wales - Camry [Kəmrɨ]. It comes from the word kom-brogi with the meaning of "compatriots". The word "Wales" originated from the Old English name of the Galov tribe, which settled these territories.
Sweden
The name of the country comes from the Karsannandavian words of Svea and Rike - the "State of Nights" - and the Swedish sounds like "Swaria" [sv̌̌rjɛ].
Scotland
At Gaelic, Scotland is called the beautiful word "Alba". The ancient Greeks, and after them and the Romans called Albion the whole island, which we know as the UK, but later the name was fixed only after the territory of modern Scotland. The word ALBA is associated with the root with the "white" or "hill" value. Perhaps this name arose due to chalk rocks in Dover. The official name of the country in English is Scotland - is less suspended. The Greek word Skotos is translated as "darkness", "darkness". Skot derived from him was called the raid tribes living on these lands.
Bonus
Ingushetia
Self-calving of the people - the Gangga. Some researchers believe that the word "Galgay" means "builder, a resident of the towers" at the Sumerian language. It is also possible that the name of the people comes from the name of the ancient Ningushian deity with the name of the gela or gala. In Russian, the word "Ingushetia" arose due to the name of the Angusht settlement, which was an important shopping center in the XVIII century.
Kalmykia
Halmg Tangch is the original name of the Republic of Kalmykia. The word "Halmg" called themselves Ohirats, and this word meant something like "quickly rushing over the ground." Neighboring Turkic peoples found in their own word with similar sound, but in a completely different value ("separated" or "broken") and began to call Ohratov Kalmaki. Hence the modern name of the republic and the people living in it happened.
Karelia
According to one of the versions, the self-talent of Karelia, Kariala, comes from the Baltic word "Garja" ("Mountain"). Thus, the Eastern Finnish tribes, living on the hill, were opposed to Western, lower.
North Ossetia
Historians did not come to a common opinion, as the ancient name of the Republic (Alania) and its inhabitants (Alanov) appeared. Most likely, the word "Alan" occurred from the overall name of the ancient Iranians - Arya. Perhaps once it meant "Guest", "Comrade". However, it can be said that there is nothing in common between the Republic of Alanya and the famous Turkish resort of Alanya. The latter generally got his name completely accidentally, but this is another story. Ossetia was called this territory of Georgians, and it was from the Georgian language to Toponym entered other languages of the world.
Chechnya
Chechens call themselves the word "nochchy", and the Republic - Nohchichi. Perhaps this root occurred from the title of the Central Caucasus region, where the tribe was formed - Nashha. The etymology of the word "Chechen" in something similar with the word "German": the Russians did not understand the Chechens and said that those Chechen (chirbow) like birds. But other versions are possible. For example, the word "Tsetsen" on Kalmyk language means "wise".