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Thread #47235   Message #706509
Posted By: Wilfried Schaum
08-May-02 - 02:57 AM
Thread Name: BS: countries that named themselves
Subject: RE: BS: countries that named themselves
Objection, Bob. This may be right with jungle tribes, but not with countries civilized since more than 2000 years. My county's name was derived from its central river long ago and given by its inhabitants. In a letter from the pope to St Boniface the latinized form is used, but you clearly can see that the name was in use in its true German form more than 1300 years ago.

Wilfried