What are some possible names your country had/ could've had ?

¿What about The United Kingdom of Great Galicia and Aragon? or UK for short

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Melita I guess.

We could have potentially been named Columbia but Colombia stole the name first.

Why others call you Turks?

>Columbia (Latin, poetic), Freedonia, Appalachia, Alleghany (names proposed after American Revolutionary War), United States (short form), Usonia (used by James Duff Law and popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright),

So yes, we actually we're almost named Freedonia.

Realistically speaking spain should be called the United Kingdom of Castille, Leon, Aragón and Navarra

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found an interesting thing
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_alternative_country_names
>Freedonia
yikes
Columbia sounds okay but then it would be confused wtih british columbia canada

In almost all cases because of irrational butthurt.

Slovenia could be called Kranjska, which would translate to English as Carniola. And we could have a Cyprus-like flag of a green linden leaf on a white background and be A FKN LEAF. Though in reality ppl were waving our current 'Russian' flag and agitating for a projected polity named Slovenia as early as 1848, so not really.

in greece we call you Γαλλία (Gallia) :D

Helvetia

Germany or Sweden

Slightly possible would be 'Scandinavia'... but not really

Yeah, I guess 'Denmark'
kek
...or 'North Sea country'

Whatever tribe would be dominant above all others + land/reich suffix. Could've been saxons, franks, suebi, burgundians or langobards at one point in time

Alamans were the most known people west of germany , so Alemannia could've been a possibility, like we call you in france and spain

I'd make us Estland in English too, Estonia sounds like a fictional fairytale land

-land = germanic/english generic country name
-onia = beautiful latin toponym

Alemannia = schwaben = suebi

Bohemia or Lands of Bohemian crown are vastly superior names to Czech republic or Czechia desu

We call you Švabi colloquially and sort of pejoratively (a Nazi soldier in every Slovenian's family story from WWII is invariably a Švab rather than a Nemec), but the funny thing is that this was not due to the fame of Swabia so much as that the word is a 20th century borrowing from Serbian, which nation had contact primarily with Danube Swabians who moved into their neighbourhood during the Habsburg resettling of Hungary. The Germans here were always Bavarians, or better Austrians with a great many South Tyrolean settlers, from whom many great figures among my countrymen were descended.

Nimtsätä sounds like it could be a Finnish verb. Pretty interesting.

Croatia and Dalmatia was interchangeably used for our medieval state, although Dalmatia is a region within Croatia now. Also, we often referred to our language as Illyrian, and Austrian Germans did the same, and the region used Illyria as a name, so that's another possibility.

Our native name is Hrvatska, but archaic spelling also had Horvatska.

tl;dr
1) Dalmatia
2) Illyria
3) Horvatska instead of Hrvatska

I would have preferred Liburnia over Dalmatia, since ancient Liburnians were actually semi-civilised while the Dalmatae were basically hill savages.

You know, it's often said that Horvat is one of the most popular surnames here as well in some other nearby country, but another surname that's at the very top here is Bizjak (also Bezjak), which is an old Slovenian term for a Kajkavian speaker. It fell out of use sometime in the 19th century, but the term remains something like the third most common surname here.

Oh, and there is a region in Gorizia county in Italy, around Monfalcone (or Tržič), that's called Bisiaccaria, or Bizjakarija. So that could be an alternative name for Croatia, since your capital is in Zagreb and all, on Kajkavian land.

Lechia - Lechistan - Lechland

Would sound better than Poland imo, Poland comes from Pole, which means Fields, which is pretty lame, while Lech is a legendary founder of Poland.

Shit sorry, meant to reply to OP

Saturnia(Virgil called Italy 'Saturnia Tellus' i.e land of Saturn)
Romania(obvious)
Ostrogotia/Lombardia(were either of the kingdoms successful in keeping united bar unifying the peninsula, kinda like 'France' aka land of the Franks)

Polje (dialectally pole) does mean field, now that you mention it. It's also the folksy name for the local mental hospital due to the district it's located in, so saying that someone went or belongs 'u pole' does not have good connotations here, I'm sorry to say.

Pannonia
Hunnia
Western Ukraine

> What are some possible names your country had/ could've had ?
> If you could rename your country what would you call it?
Зoлoтaя Opдa/Golden Horde. Glory to Sky-Father! Pan-turanism ftw.

Lusitania is the latin/poetic name for our country, even if the original region doesn't cover the whole thing.

I guess there's a possibility we could've carried the name Galicia/Galiza with us, given that we held the biggest cities when we broke off (as well as the former capital), but it wasn't in the cards.

Ophiussa was the greek name for the valleys around the Tagus as well.

We were also the first united kingdom (or Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves), I believe.

All pretty good names, although I don't hate Portugal either.

Francie Occidentale (Western Francia)
Gaule

i guess that's it

that's pretty cool
I learned that Greeks still call France "Gallia"

Occitania could've also been the name if the south had won. Burgundia/Provencia/Brittania as well, I guess, but that's pushing it a ton.

I guess we could have been called Saxonland instead of Anglaland if Saxons outnumbered Angles instead of vice versa

So far so good!
Can we get some of the not named countries?

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Éire
Erin
Hibernia
Scotia

>Francie Occidentale (Western Francia)

I'm surprised that you didn't rename yourself that in the past just to troll the Germans, which was one of the main preoccupations of the French between the revolution and WWII imo.

Häme, Karjala or Satakunta.

I might like Satakunta the best.

Actual proposed names for Canada:
>Anglia
Medieval Latin for England
>Albionoria
Albion (great britain) of the north
>Borealia
North land, as opposed to Australia's southern land
>Cabotia
After explorer John Cabot
>Colonia
The colony
>Efisga
Acronym for English, French, Irish, Scottish, German, Aboriginal
>Hochelega
Old Indian name for Montréal
>Laurentia
After the laurentian sheild (crust plate)
>Mesopelagia
Land between the seas
>New Albion
New England
>Norland
North land
>Superior
After Lake Superior
>Tupona
The United Provinces of North America
>Transatlantica
Land across the Atlantic
>Ursalia
Land of bears
>Vesperia
Land of the evening star
>Victorialand
After Queen Victoria

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You can fill a lot with the Latin names for the closest regions:
Britannia, Caledonia, Hibernia, Helvetica, Barbaria, Peonia, Hipania, etc.

>Freedonia
What could have been
Imagine all the memeing

That's interesting, we call them "szwaby" too. Also "szkopy", not sure what the etymology is for that one though.

Updated!
well yeah the latin names are available but i want to hear first hand from the people living there :v
also the latin names often name broad geographical areas since there wasnt "countries" there, for example Hispania

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Based. t.Satakuntian

Though I would say that Häme or Karjala (Tavastia or Karelia in English respectively) would've been more likely since those were the foremost and original tribes from which the rest of the Finnish tribes are derived, in addition to Finland Proper.

That the term is a borrowing from Serbian is just my conjecture and I have never read such an opinion anyway. But it's the only way I can reconcile the existence of this phrase here with the fact that the Germans were very territorially conscious in the past and that it is unlikely that a German who was not Swabian would ever think to refer to himself as such. But I must be wrong if you call them the same who never had contact with Swabians at all.

Or maybe my conjecture is correct for us but in your case Szwab is a back-formation coined by one of the many Poles who historically had contact with the French and thus knew the term Allemande.

Ostfrankenreich (lat .Francia Orientalis) for Germany

andalusia should've been renamed betica after the reconquista and granada iliberri

africa maybe

>if the south had won.
won what?

> Burgundia
if you manage to actually define it
>Provencia
it's in occitania
>Brittania
it was and existed for a long time

i don't see how that would troll them, that would acknowledge their existence
taking the name of Francia alone has probably been pissing them off for a millenia already

I guess Sapmi if the Samis had managed to take over

We should have kept the name Palestine

Belgium/Lotharingia

The Grand Dutchy of Lowlands

or

Oranjeland

That's neat.
Also, in the modern version of Latin, France is called "Francogallorum" pretty cool if you ask me.

Illyria probably
or just Dalmatia after the Roman region

go fuck your mother

Sweden should also have 'Denmark'... and Denmark should have 'Sweden'

But this is all a bit "geo political" (including Norway), and not ACTUAL different names the country itself could have had (cos then Russia should have 'Germany', and Germany should have 'Russia'. France should have 'England', Hungary should have 'Austria' etc).

So, remove 'Denmark' from Norway. The only possible name for Norway ever has been 'Norway' (The Way to the North - North Way).

>Vistula Veneti
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vistula_Veneti

L*chia is lame and unreasonable

Some Kosovars call Kosovo Dardania after the Roman province but were forbidden to name the country Dardania cus of the UN