Can you name the Countries Name by there Meaning? by historybuff1861

Meaning of Country name or what it is de	English Name
Silver
Unknown Southern Land
Shallow Sea
The Bearded Ones
Settlement
Central Nation
Sunday
The land below the Agean Sea
Red Sea
Land of The Finns
Women or Land of the Blacks
Land of Many Waters
Alliance of the Ten Tribes

Meaning of Country name or what it is de	English Name
Land of the Aryans
Land of Wood and Water or Land of Springs
Land of the Rising Sun
Field of Blackbird
Land of Forty Tribes
Stone of Light
Little Castle
Flaming Water
Land of the Pure
Land of King Phillip
Little Venice
House of Stones

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Country Name by Meaning Quiz

by historybuff1861

Created May 2, 2011 in Geography
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	DrDolittle:	May 2nd, 2011 at 21:11 GMT	2 points
	Kyrgyzstan was spelt wrong so it didn't work :(

	bobbleobble:	May 2nd, 2011 at 21:25 GMT	7 points
	Philippines is one 'l' two 'p's (well three if you count the one at the beginning)

	dancastro:	May 2nd, 2011 at 23:01 GMT	1 point
	I suggest changing Light Stone to Stone of Light to avoid ambiguity. I supposed that "light" was an adjective meaning 'not heavy', but in German it's spelled "leicht" and not "liecht", so I thought that it couldn't be the etymology of Liechtenstein. Then I realized that the "Liecht" in Liechtenstein is really the noun light (spelled Licht in modern German).

	dancastro:	May 2nd, 2011 at 23:14 GMT	1 point
	@bobbleobble: exactly. Of course, the king was Philip II of Spain, also with only one 'l'. To spell Philip and Philippines correctly, one can think of "philosophy" or "Philadelphia" that have the same origin (Greek philos, 'friend'). Surely nobody spells them as phillosophy or Philladelphia.

	1447:	May 3rd, 2011 at 01:10 GMT	3 points
	Guinea as the only "Land of the Blacks" is somewhat ambiguous, both Sudan, Niger and Nigeria and of course the three other countries with 'Guinea' in their name can refer to a land of blacks.

	TheBigE1980:	May 3rd, 2011 at 02:37 GMT	1 point
	Spelling needs to be checked big time, and add a source, but this is a great game.

	historybuff1861:	May 3rd, 2011 at 22:39 GMT	0 points
	Well this has been pretty popular quiz sorry about the spelling I will fix them asap.

	historybuff1861:	Jun 20th, 2011 at 14:34 GMT	0 points
	Whoever got land of the finns wrong should never play another sporcle quiz. I mean come on.