Alternative History:Alternate Names

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You will find here alternate name for countries in OTL that could be used in alternate histories. These were either briefly used or proposed around the time of creation but discarded. Feel free to add entries but try to refrain from adding personnal suggestions.

Contents 1 Argentina 2 Austria 3 Canada 4 China 5 Colombia 6 Ecuador 7 Ethiopia 8 France 9 Germany 10 Ghana 11 Iran 12 Russia 13 Spain 14 Sweden 15 United Kingdom 16 United States 17 Venezuela

[edit] Argentina

• Rio de La Plata

[edit] Austria

• United States of Greater Austria was proposed in 1906
• Ostmark (East March) - medieval name, and the name under Nazis

[edit] Canada

• Acadia, the French colony

The names proposed for the Dominion formed in 1867:

• Albertsland (after Prince Albert)
• Albionora ("northern Albion"),
• Borealia (from a latin word meaning north)
• Britannia
• Cabotia (after John Cabot, one of the early european navigator to land in modern day Canada)
• Colonia
• Efisga (a combination of the first letters of England, France, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Aboriginal lands)
• Hochelaga (a name used on early map to represent a large part of modern day central Canada, also former name of Montreal)
• Norland
• Superior
• Transatlantia ("over the atlantic" from the british point of view)
• Tupona (an acrostic for the United Provinces of North America)
• Victorialand (after queen victoria)

In addition, "Kingdom of Canada" was the prefered name among Canadians. "Dominion" was chosen largely as a result of American objections.

[edit] China

• Zhonghua, Zhongguo, Chinese
• Sin, Sinae, Hebrew and Latin respectively
• Kina, Hina, Shina, variants of "China"
• Ser, Seres, the ancient Greek and Roman name for the north-western part of China; the word "silk" ultimately comes from it)
• Cathay (English), Cataya, Kitai (Latin), Kitad (Mongolian), Kitay (Russian), from the Khitan people who lived in Northern China, introduced by Marco Polo
• Chuka, Chugoku, Kara, Morokoshi, Japanese names

[edit] Colombia

• New Granada (Nueva Granada in Spanish)
• Gran Colombia Name of the federation of Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela

[edit] Ecuador

• Quito

[edit] Ethiopia

• Abyssinia name for the Ethiopian Empire which in OTL existed between 1270-1975

[edit] France

• Gaul, Gallia - Roman name

[edit] Germany

• Germania, the name in Latin
• Deutschland, the name in German
• Dutchland, English rendering of the name above, later applied to the Netherlands only
• Teutonia, alternative name in Latin, perceived as Latinate form of Deutschland
• Alemannia, Allemagne, Almaniya etc., the names adopted in most Romance and Muslim languages
• East Francia, a name for Germany during the Carolingian era
• Saxony, one of the dominating states, whose name is applied to whole Germany in some Finnish languages
• Prussia, the dominating state in the 19th century; the name was informally applied to the German Empire
• Niemcy, Nimechchyna etc. (literally "the country of the mute"), the names adopted in most Slavic languages
• Swabia, after an important ancient tribe, informal name in some South Slavic languages
• Suðrvegr (i.e. "south way"), the name used by Vikings (opposite to Norway)
• Tedeschia, informal name in Italian (after tedesco, the adjective for "German")
• The Hunnic Empire, an ancient empire traditionally associated with the Germans
• The Holy Roman Empire, the Union of the German states in the Middle Ages
• Union of German Countries was proposed for a confederation in 1948

[edit] Ghana

• Ashanti - kingdom occupying approximately same area as Ghana
• Gold Coast name of the former British colony in Ghana

[edit] Iran

• Persia

[edit] Russia

• Rus or Rus’, the oldest name (since pre-Christianity times)
• Ruscia or Ruthenia, Latinate forms of the oldest name
• Urus, Oros, Urys, Orys etc., the name used by the Mongol and Tatar conquerors in 13th-15th centuries
• Muscovy or Moscovia, the centralised principality/kingdom with the centre in Moscow since 14th century eventually conquering whole Russia, as opposed to the other Russian states
• Great(er) Russia, Russia Magna, Makra Rosia, or Velikorossia, as opposed to other Russian nations (Ukraine ("Small Russia") and Belarus) in English, Latin, Greek, and Russian respectively
• Black Russia, Russia Nigra, as opposed to Belarus ("White Russia")
• White Russia, Russia Alba, sometimes, probably as opposed to the areas occupied by the Poles and Lithuanians
• Rossia or Rossiya, the name in Russian

[edit] Spain

• Iberia, after pre-Roman inhabitants of the peninsula
• Hispania, Latin name
• Al-Andalus, Spain under Arabs
• Castile, the largest kingdom until it united with Aragon
• Pyrenean Peninsula, alternative name of the peninsula
• España, Spanish name

[edit] Sweden

• Svea Rike

[edit] United Kingdom

• Albion Name applied to Great Britain by Pliny the Elder. All the islands of Britain were known as "the Britanniae"
• Britain, Britannia

[edit] United States

• Vinland
• Columbia
• Fredonia
• Appalachia
• Amerigo Vespucci-land
• Usonia
• Gringoland
• Washingtonia
• USONA (United States Of North America)
• Hesperia ("Land of Evening/Sunset"), as one of the countries the Romans located beyond the Ocean)
• New England

[edit] Venezuela

• El Libertador, after Simón Bolívar the Liberator, proposed name
• Klein-Venedig, failed German colony