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Names of places in Asia

  • Mainland Southeast AsiaIn 1804, a Danish-French geographer named Conrad Malte-Brun wrote about the area as Indo-China. He used this phrase to describe the region lying between…
  • Names of IstanbulThe earliest known name for the site of modern Istanbul was Lygos. Pliny the Elder recorded this designation in his writings, though the origin and meaning…