sunnykerr

Name 20 countries and the meaning of their name

1. Gabon ("cloak"; anglicized from the Portuguese Gabão, bestowed on the Komo River estuary for its supposed resemblance to a gabão)
2. Portugal (From medieval Romance Portucale, from Latin Portus Cale or the Latin calēre)
3. Belgium (derived from Gallia Belgica, a Roman province in the northernmost part of Gaul that before Roman invasion in 100 BC, was inhabited by the Belgae, a mix of Celtic and Germanic peoples.)
4. Belarus ("White Russia", a compound of the Belarussian bel- (бел-, "white") and Rus (Русь, Rus') adopted in 1991. The meaning is "Russian" in the cultural and historic but not national sense)
5. Hungary (Turkic: on-ogur, "(people of the) ten arrows" – in other words, "alliance of the ten tribes")
6. Saudi Arabia ("Arabia of the Sauds", in reference to the ruling dynasty. The dynasty itself takes its name from its patriach Saud, whose name means "constellation")
7. Canada ("Village", from Iroquoian Kanada, adopted for the entire Canadian Confederation in 1867).
8. Australia ("Southern Land" in New Latin, adapted from the legendary pseudo-geographical Terra Australis Incognita -- "Unknown Southern Land" -- dating back to the Roman era)
9. Austria ("Eastern March", Latinized as early as 1147 from German Österreich, from Old High German Ostarrîchi (996) or Osterrîche (998), from Medieval Latin Marchia Orientalis, an eastern prefecture for the Duchy of Bavaria established in 976.)
10. Iraq (One theory is that it is derived from the city of Erech/Uruk near the river Euphrates. Some archaeologists regard Uruk as the first major Sumerian city. However, it is more plausible that name is derived from the Middle Persian word Erak, meaning "lowlands")
11. Benin (The English name comes from a Portuguese transcription (Benin) of a local corruption (Bini) of the Itsekiri form (Ubinu) of the Yoruba Ile-Ibinu ("Home of Vexation"), a name bestowed on the Edo capital by the irate Ife oba Oranyan in the 12th century.)
12. Ecuador ("Equator" in Spanish, truncated from the Spanish República del Ecuador, from the former Ecuador Department of Gran Colombia established in 1824 as a division of the former territory of the Royal Audience of Quito)
13. Rwanda ("Land", from the Kinyarwanda kwanda ("expand"), as eventually applied to the Tutsi Nyiginya mwamis descended from Ruganzu Ndori or the speakers of Kinyarwanda.)
14. Guatemala ("Forest", from the Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān (lit. "Place of Many Trees"), a translation of the K'iche' K'ii'chee' (lit. "Many Trees").)
15. Haiti (From Taíno/Arawak, Hayiti or Hayti, meaning "mountainous land", originally Hayiti.)
16. Marshall Islands (Named after British Captain John Marshall, who first documented the existence of the islands in 1788)
17. Chad ("Lake", from Lake Chad in the country's southwest, whose name derives from the Kanuri tsade ("lake").)

quaist

Thanks for the new thread

I like the fact that we now have a title for the List Game, too.

Name 20 countries and the meaning of their name

1. Gabon ("cloak"; anglicized from the Portuguese Gabão, bestowed on the Komo River estuary for its supposed resemblance to a gabão)
2. Portugal (From medieval Romance Portucale, from Latin Portus Cale or the Latin calēre)
3. Belgium (derived from Gallia Belgica, a Roman province in the northernmost part of Gaul that before Roman invasion in 100 BC, was inhabited by the Belgae, a mix of Celtic and Germanic peoples.)
4. Belarus ("White Russia", a compound of the Belarussian bel- (бел-, "white") and Rus (Русь, Rus') adopted in 1991. The meaning is "Russian" in the cultural and historic but not national sense)
5. Hungary (Turkic: on-ogur, "(people of the) ten arrows" – in other words, "alliance of the ten tribes")
6. Saudi Arabia ("Arabia of the Sauds", in reference to the ruling dynasty. The dynasty itself takes its name from its patriach Saud, whose name means "constellation")
7. Canada ("Village", from Iroquoian Kanada, adopted for the entire Canadian Confederation in 1867).
8. Australia ("Southern Land" in New Latin, adapted from the legendary pseudo-geographical Terra Australis Incognita -- "Unknown Southern Land" -- dating back to the Roman era)
9. Austria ("Eastern March", Latinized as early as 1147 from German Österreich, from Old High German Ostarrîchi (996) or Osterrîche (998), from Medieval Latin Marchia Orientalis, an eastern prefecture for the Duchy of Bavaria established in 976.)
10. Iraq (One theory is that it is derived from the city of Erech/Uruk near the river Euphrates. Some archaeologists regard Uruk as the first major Sumerian city. However, it is more plausible that name is derived from the Middle Persian word Erak, meaning "lowlands")
11. Benin (The English name comes from a Portuguese transcription (Benin) of a local corruption (Bini) of the Itsekiri form (Ubinu) of the Yoruba Ile-Ibinu ("Home of Vexation"), a name bestowed on the Edo capital by the irate Ife oba Oranyan in the 12th century.)
12. Ecuador ("Equator" in Spanish, truncated from the Spanish República del Ecuador, from the former Ecuador Department of Gran Colombia established in 1824 as a division of the former territory of the Royal Audience of Quito)
13. Rwanda ("Land", from the Kinyarwanda kwanda ("expand"), as eventually applied to the Tutsi Nyiginya mwamis descended from Ruganzu Ndori or the speakers of Kinyarwanda.)
14. Guatemala ("Forest", from the Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān (lit. "Place of Many Trees"), a translation of the K'iche' K'ii'chee' (lit. "Many Trees").)
15. Haiti (From Taíno/Arawak, Hayiti or Hayti, meaning "mountainous land", originally Hayiti.)
16. Marshall Islands (Named after British Captain John Marshall, who first documented the existence of the islands in 1788)
17. Chad ("Lake", from Lake Chad in the country's southwest, whose name derives from the Kanuri tsade ("lake").)
18. Kazakhstan ("Land of the Kazakhs", an amalgam of Kazakh qazaq (Қазақ, "nomad", "free") and Persian -stan ("land").)

sunnykerr

I thought it might invite people to come in and post.

Got the idea from the Survivor thread, actually.

Name 20 countries and the meaning of their name

1. Gabon ("cloak"; anglicized from the Portuguese Gabão, bestowed on the Komo River estuary for its supposed resemblance to a gabão)
2. Portugal (From medieval Romance Portucale, from Latin Portus Cale or the Latin calēre)
3. Belgium (derived from Gallia Belgica, a Roman province in the northernmost part of Gaul that before Roman invasion in 100 BC, was inhabited by the Belgae, a mix of Celtic and Germanic peoples.)
4. Belarus ("White Russia", a compound of the Belarussian bel- (бел-, "white") and Rus (Русь, Rus') adopted in 1991. The meaning is "Russian" in the cultural and historic but not national sense)
5. Hungary (Turkic: on-ogur, "(people of the) ten arrows" – in other words, "alliance of the ten tribes")
6. Saudi Arabia ("Arabia of the Sauds", in reference to the ruling dynasty. The dynasty itself takes its name from its patriach Saud, whose name means "constellation")
7. Canada ("Village", from Iroquoian Kanada, adopted for the entire Canadian Confederation in 1867).
8. Australia ("Southern Land" in New Latin, adapted from the legendary pseudo-geographical Terra Australis Incognita -- "Unknown Southern Land" -- dating back to the Roman era)
9. Austria ("Eastern March", Latinized as early as 1147 from German Österreich, from Old High German Ostarrîchi (996) or Osterrîche (998), from Medieval Latin Marchia Orientalis, an eastern prefecture for the Duchy of Bavaria established in 976.)
10. Iraq (One theory is that it is derived from the city of Erech/Uruk near the river Euphrates. Some archaeologists regard Uruk as the first major Sumerian city. However, it is more plausible that name is derived from the Middle Persian word Erak, meaning "lowlands")
11. Benin (The English name comes from a Portuguese transcription (Benin) of a local corruption (Bini) of the Itsekiri form (Ubinu) of the Yoruba Ile-Ibinu ("Home of Vexation"), a name bestowed on the Edo capital by the irate Ife oba Oranyan in the 12th century.)
12. Ecuador ("Equator" in Spanish, truncated from the Spanish República del Ecuador, from the former Ecuador Department of Gran Colombia established in 1824 as a division of the former territory of the Royal Audience of Quito)
13. Rwanda ("Land", from the Kinyarwanda kwanda ("expand"), as eventually applied to the Tutsi Nyiginya mwamis descended from Ruganzu Ndori or the speakers of Kinyarwanda.)
14. Guatemala ("Forest", from the Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān (lit. "Place of Many Trees"), a translation of the K'iche' K'ii'chee' (lit. "Many Trees").)
15. Haiti (From Taíno/Arawak, Hayiti or Hayti, meaning "mountainous land", originally Hayiti.)
16. Marshall Islands (Named after British Captain John Marshall, who first documented the existence of the islands in 1788)
17. Chad ("Lake", from Lake Chad in the country's southwest, whose name derives from the Kanuri tsade ("lake").)
18. Kazakhstan ("Land of the Kazakhs", an amalgam of Kazakh qazaq (Қазақ, "nomad", "free") and Persian -stan ("land").)
19. France ("Land of the Franks", Anglicized from Late Latin Francia, from Old Frankish Franko. The name "Frank" itself has been derived from the historic framea javelin.)

sunnykerr

Anyone else want to bring us home?

I can, of course.

quaist

If you don't mind and already have a sparking idea, Sunny, that'd be great.

I'm once again stagnating in one of my uncreative phases

sunnykerr

Name 20 countries and the meaning of their name

1. Gabon ("cloak"; anglicized from the Portuguese Gabão, bestowed on the Komo River estuary for its supposed resemblance to a gabão)
2. Portugal (From medieval Romance Portucale, from Latin Portus Cale or the Latin calēre)
3. Belgium (derived from Gallia Belgica, a Roman province in the northernmost part of Gaul that before Roman invasion in 100 BC, was inhabited by the Belgae, a mix of Celtic and Germanic peoples.)
4. Belarus ("White Russia", a compound of the Belarussian bel- (бел-, "white") and Rus (Русь, Rus') adopted in 1991. The meaning is "Russian" in the cultural and historic but not national sense)
5. Hungary (Turkic: on-ogur, "(people of the) ten arrows" – in other words, "alliance of the ten tribes")
6. Saudi Arabia ("Arabia of the Sauds", in reference to the ruling dynasty. The dynasty itself takes its name from its patriach Saud, whose name means "constellation")
7. Canada ("Village", from Iroquoian Kanada, adopted for the entire Canadian Confederation in 1867).
8. Australia ("Southern Land" in New Latin, adapted from the legendary pseudo-geographical Terra Australis Incognita -- "Unknown Southern Land" -- dating back to the Roman era)
9. Austria ("Eastern March", Latinized as early as 1147 from German Österreich, from Old High German Ostarrîchi (996) or Osterrîche (998), from Medieval Latin Marchia Orientalis, an eastern prefecture for the Duchy of Bavaria established in 976.)
10. Iraq (One theory is that it is derived from the city of Erech/Uruk near the river Euphrates. Some archaeologists regard Uruk as the first major Sumerian city. However, it is more plausible that name is derived from the Middle Persian word Erak, meaning "lowlands")
11. Benin (The English name comes from a Portuguese transcription (Benin) of a local corruption (Bini) of the Itsekiri form (Ubinu) of the Yoruba Ile-Ibinu ("Home of Vexation"), a name bestowed on the Edo capital by the irate Ife oba Oranyan in the 12th century.)
12. Ecuador ("Equator" in Spanish, truncated from the Spanish República del Ecuador, from the former Ecuador Department of Gran Colombia established in 1824 as a division of the former territory of the Royal Audience of Quito)
13. Rwanda ("Land", from the Kinyarwanda kwanda ("expand"), as eventually applied to the Tutsi Nyiginya mwamis descended from Ruganzu Ndori or the speakers of Kinyarwanda.)
14. Guatemala ("Forest", from the Nahuatl Cuauhtēmallān (lit. "Place of Many Trees"), a translation of the K'iche' K'ii'chee' (lit. "Many Trees").)
15. Haiti (From Taíno/Arawak, Hayiti or Hayti, meaning "mountainous land", originally Hayiti.)
16. Marshall Islands (Named after British Captain John Marshall, who first documented the existence of the islands in 1788)
17. Chad ("Lake", from Lake Chad in the country's southwest, whose name derives from the Kanuri tsade ("lake").)
18. Kazakhstan ("Land of the Kazakhs", an amalgam of Kazakh qazaq (Қазақ, "nomad", "free") and Persian -stan ("land").)
19. France ("Land of the Franks", Anglicized from Late Latin Francia, from Old Frankish Franko. The name "Frank" itself has been derived from the historic framea javelin.)
20. Bangladesh ("Country of Bengal", a compound of Bengali Bangla (Bengali: বাংলা, "Bengal") and -desh (দেশ, "country") which appeared in Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's 1971 declaration of independence for East Pakistan.)

sunnykerr

Name 20 monarchs who were murdered

1. Selim III - d. 1807 - reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire

quaist

Great new list, thanks for that!

Though to be honest, I'd have suspected the Wikipedia list to be way longer than that -- luckily, apparently not as many monarchs were murdered throughout history as I thought

Name 20 monarchs who were murdered

1. Selim III - d. 1807 - reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
2. Moctezuma II - d. 1520 - ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan

sunnykerr

Glad you like it. I wracked my brain quite a lot to come up with something.

Name 20 monarchs who were murdered

1. Selim III - d. 1807 - reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
2. Moctezuma II - d. 1520 - ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan
3. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (aka Emperor Jacques I of Haiti) - d. 1806 - leader of the Haitian Revolution and first ruler of an independent Haiti

quaist

With each new list, it's getting harder to come up with something we haven't already had before

Name 20 monarchs who were murdered

1. Selim III - d. 1807 - reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
2. Moctezuma II - d. 1520 - ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan
3. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (aka Emperor Jacques I of Haiti) - d. 1806 - leader of the Haitian Revolution and first ruler of an independent Haiti
4. Alexander IV of Macedon - d. 309 BC - son of Alexander the Great

sunnykerr

Name 20 monarchs who were murdered

1. Selim III - d. 1807 - reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
2. Moctezuma II - d. 1520 - ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan
3. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (aka Emperor Jacques I of Haiti) - d. 1806 - leader of the Haitian Revolution and first ruler of an independent Haiti
4. Alexander IV of Macedon - d. 309 BC - son of Alexander the Great
5. Cuilén mac Ildulb - d. 971 - one of three known sons of King Indulf (of Scotland)

quaist

Name 20 monarchs who were murdered

1. Selim III - d. 1807 - reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
2. Moctezuma II - d. 1520 - ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan
3. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (aka Emperor Jacques I of Haiti) - d. 1806 - leader of the Haitian Revolution and first ruler of an independent Haiti
4. Alexander IV of Macedon - d. 309 BC - son of Alexander the Great
5. Cuilén mac Ildulb - d. 971 - one of three known sons of King Indulf (of Scotland)
6. Henry IV of France - d. 1610 - first French monarch of the House of Bourbon

sunnykerr

Name 20 monarchs who were murdered

1. Selim III - d. 1807 - reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
2. Moctezuma II - d. 1520 - ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan
3. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (aka Emperor Jacques I of Haiti) - d. 1806 - leader of the Haitian Revolution and first ruler of an independent Haiti
4. Alexander IV of Macedon - d. 309 BC - son of Alexander the Great
5. Cuilén mac Ildulb - d. 971 - one of three known sons of King Indulf (of Scotland)
6. Henry IV of France - d. 1610 - first French monarch of the House of Bourbon
7. Niels, King of Denmark - d. 1134 - presumed to have been the youngest son of King Sweyn II Estridson

quaist

Name 20 monarchs who were murdered

1. Selim III - d. 1807 - reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
2. Moctezuma II - d. 1520 - ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan
3. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (aka Emperor Jacques I of Haiti) - d. 1806 - leader of the Haitian Revolution and first ruler of an independent Haiti
4. Alexander IV of Macedon - d. 309 BC - son of Alexander the Great
5. Cuilén mac Ildulb - d. 971 - one of three known sons of King Indulf (of Scotland)
6. Henry IV of France - d. 1610 - first French monarch of the House of Bourbon
7. Niels, King of Denmark - d. 1134 - presumed to have been the youngest son of King Sweyn II Estridson
8. Theodoric II - d. 466 - the eighth King of Visigoths from 453 to 466

sunnykerr

Name 20 monarchs who were murdered

1. Selim III - d. 1807 - reform-minded Sultan of the Ottoman Empire
2. Moctezuma II - d. 1520 - ninth tlatoani or ruler of Tenochtitlan
3. Jean-Jacques Dessalines (aka Emperor Jacques I of Haiti) - d. 1806 - leader of the Haitian Revolution and first ruler of an independent Haiti
4. Alexander IV of Macedon - d. 309 BC - son of Alexander the Great
5. Cuilén mac Ildulb - d. 971 - one of three known sons of King Indulf (of Scotland)
6. Henry IV of France - d. 1610 - first French monarch of the House of Bourbon
7. Niels, King of Denmark - d. 1134 - presumed to have been the youngest son of King Sweyn II Estridson
8. Theodoric II - d. 466 - the eighth King of Visigoths from 453 to 466
9. Edward II of England - d. 1327 - sixth Plantagenet king