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Originally posted by Epona:
Very good point - and of course all countries and the idea of national boundaries and demarkations are quite modern concepts. Look at Europe for example, changes which occur all the time - the carve-up of borders and formation of new states after the both world wars, formation and then breakup of the USSR and the balkan states - these things are constantly in flux, and the idea of having a 'nationality' in a modern sense would have been completely alien to an ancient Roman - they were Roman by culture, not by country.
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The Romans did this with relation to peoples/races (Keltoi bacame Gauls) as well as land areas. The English did it in Australia with things like Uluru. Oh, there's a nice big rock, let's call it Ayers Rock!
It's like me walking up to the Thames and saying. Hmm nice river, think I'll call it the Bojobrindallamup creek. Then going back to Oz and writing about the Bojo creek
not even bothering to find out what Londoners/Westmisterites call it.
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O.K..... what do I do now?
A fair dinkum laughing Hyena!