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Originally posted by Sir_Tainly:
Interesting point there Epona, given that the name of our own country is a corruption. Technically England is meant to be land of the Angles, but "Ang" has changed to "Eng". Yet still in French its true meaning is obvious, thus the French name is technically more accurate.
Yorick some of the country names in Africa are meaningless when refering to a country, as the areas were just areas demarked by colonial powers, after the treaty of Berlin, IIRC.
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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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Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
Epona of The Laughing Hyenas.