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Ethnonym: Türk, 'Land of the Turks' | |
'Land of the rebel Albanoi' mentioned in the History of Michael Attaliates around AD 1080 | |
Etymology unknown, folk etymology from 'copper' | |
Etymology uncertain From Old English Grecas and Crecas, from Latin Græcus, presumably from Greek Graikoí | |
'City on _____ Hill', from Italian for the site of the territory remaining to the state after the mid-19th-century Unification of Italy and upon its 1929 reestablishment | |
Origins of Roman name, from which the modern name is derived are unknown, but there are many theories: | |
According to Aristotle and Thucydides: Eponym from Italus, legendary king of the Oenotrians | |
From the ancient Greek for 'single-dwelling' According to an ancient myth, Hercules passed through the area and turned away the previous gods | |
From medieval Romance Portucale, from Latin Portus Cale Portus is the Latin for 'port,' but the meaning of Cale is debated | |
'Black Mountain' in the Venetian dialect of Italian | |
'Land of the Slavs' in South Slavic languages Etymology of Slav itself remains uncertain | |
For the possibly legendary stonemason Marinus of Arbe who fled to the area's Mount Titano around AD 301 or 305 | |
From either the Greek for 'honey' | |
Named after an ancient kingdom Name derives ultimately from the ancient Greek adjective makednós | |
Literally means 'Field of Blackbird' | |
The name was first mentioned in Greek, meaning 'land of the ____' | |
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