List of nations by name etymology: Difference between revisions

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|[[Mount Augusta (CivMC)|Mount Augusta]]
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|German
|Approximate meaning of "Mountain Fortress".
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|[[Birmingham]]
|English
|Named after the city of Birmingham, England.
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|[[Blackrock]]
|English
|Named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlackRock BlackRock, Inc.]
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|[[Camiseo]]
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|Chungunese Sultanate
|English
|Named after the perennial Reddit meme "Big Chungus".
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|Crystalis
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|Falkorst
|Scottish?
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|Flesh Hive
|English
|Meat
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|Fljora
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|Georgia
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| Liyue Dynasty
|Chinese
| Based off the entity of the same name in the Chinese mobile game "Genshin Impact".
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|[[Lopreonia]]
|Middle English
|Founder used [https://www.fantasynamegenerators.com/ Fantasy Name Generator] and picked it.
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|Mercury
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|French
| Named after the country.
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|Mondstadt
|German
| Based off the entity of the same name in the Chinese mobile game "Genshin Impact".
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|[[Myra]]
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|English
| Named after the U.S. state.
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| Roman Spanish Federation
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|Rozia
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|S.C.U.M.
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|Sovereign
|English
|Presumably named after a head of state, or a ruler.
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|Tenants' Toil
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| Named after the concept of geopoltical entities.
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|[[{{flag|Holy Truidencian Empire]]}}
|Toontown
|None
|English
|Presumably named after the video game ''ToonTown''.
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|[[Holy Truidencian Empire]]
|English
| Cross between [[Imperial Truidence]] and the Holy Roman Empire.
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|[[Winterbourne]]
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|Z'teppekhov Horde
|Cyrillic?
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|[[São Tomé]]
|Portuguese
|Portugese
| Named after an island that makes up part of the nation of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Tom%C3%A9_and_Pr%C3%ADncipe São Tomé and Príncipe]
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|{{flag|Imperial Truidence}}
|None
|English
|Named by a random name generator.
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|{{flag|Icenia (CivClassic 2.0)|name=Icenia}}
|Latin
|Named after the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceni Iceni tribe] of Roman Britain.<ref>https://www.reddit.com/r/IcenianHistory/comments/dirrxj/on_the_origin_and_name_of_icenia/</ref>
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|Named after a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia region of Greece] that the city of Sparta resided in.
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|{{flag|Lambat (CivClassic 2.0)|name=Lambat}}
| Tagalog (Filipino)
| Translates to "fishing net", in an [https://discord.com/channels/810436686021394492/846374210979758100/890490336047161394 undisclosed reference].
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|{{flag|Lusitania (CivClassic 2.0)|name=Lusitania}}
|Latin
|Named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusitania an ancient Roman province in what is now Portugal] due to it's heavy basis on Portuguese customs.
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|{{flag|Mount September}}
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|[[Mount Augusta (CivClassic 2.0)|Mount Augusta]] plus one month.
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|[[Mount Augusta (CivClassic 2.0)|Mount Augusta]]