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    1. Ok-Sundae6553 on

      Not in Europe but since it’s naturally on the map and interesting; Africa used to be just what’s roughly Tunisia and evolved to become the whole African continent.

    3. Beermeneer532 on

      Wasn’t the term ‚europe‘ first used by iberian (muslim) scholars to describe the empire of Charlemagne? As such why is greece named europe?

    4. Momik on

      Interesting. A few others come to mind—Poland, Ruthenia, Lithuania, places calling themselves Roman.

    5. lndlml on

      Scandinavia originated from Scania (in Swedish Skåne) and it still exists as Skåne region in south of Sweden.

    8. Long-Requirement8372 on

      The bigger borders of „Finland“ don’t really make sense in comparison with the other maps, as they show only some of modern (or 1920-1940) Finland. We have called all of Finland „Finland“ since it has had defined political borders after 1809. All the other maps show the name’s meaning in its biggest geographical reach.

    11. DaleDenton08 on

      My favorite fact about medieval Bulgaria was that they simultaneously existed alongside another Bulgar state along the Volga, who also converted to Islam in 922.

    12. Lepetino on

      Yes, Finland included! Also in Finnish something similar happened to the name of Estonia: we call it “Viro”, which comes from an Estonian region called Viru.

    13. Royal-Strawberry-601 on

      Also Limburg, Groningen, Switzerland, India, Indonesia

      First two came from a city, in the case of Limburg quite far from what is now known as Limburg (2 provinces, one in Belgium, one in The Netherlands). Switzerland similar, quite a small city in fact. India is named after a single river. Indonesia after the same river (!)

    14. sjw_7 on

      You could add Scotland as well as it used to be much smaller than it currently is and just one of several kingdoms in what are now the current borders.

    17. V8-6-4 on

      That’s why the region comprising the dark part of Finland is called Finland proper.

    18. jetmcquack84 on

      Italy is wrong: it’s not from Calbria, but from central Italian tribes, between Abruzzo and Basilicata

    20. Electrical-Drink-183 on

      Also Saxony (that moved from the western part of modern Germany to the zones of leipzig and dresden today) and Calabria, which if now is the region that almost touches italy at the Romans’ time it was the one that it’s called Apulia now

    25. Zealousideal-Tax3806 on

      makes me think of learning about the reconquista in history class

    27. ale_93113 on

      This is not what Europe used to mean

      Europe used to mean JUST the coast between Euboea and Thessaloniki, which is much narrower than the map indicates

    28. LOB90 on

      Saxony also moved from where it was a thousand years ago with almost no overlap at all.

    29. VelvetGlade on

      The „Land of the Angles“ moved from southern Denmark to that one island next to Ireland.

    30. agekkeman on

      You could also include Holland, but that shift is very controversial on Reddit 

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