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Then Europe, the continent, was defined later by this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Tatishchev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Tatishchev
by narag 10y ago
Then Europe, the continent, was defined later by this guy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Tatishchev https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Tatishchev
- gus_massa 10y agoThe Wikipedia article doesn't say anything about the story of the name of Europe. Do you have a link about it?
- narag 10y agoNot in English, sorry. He was the author of some kind of paper to defend that Russia was part of Europe, not Asia. Edit: Oh, I'd read too fast. The history of the name is in the article for Europe that mnl linked above. This guy didn't invent the name that, as mnl noted, was used since... forever. He just happened to define what we call Europe today. In classical Greece it was used to mean the lands west and north of Greece. They didn't know of, let's say, Scandinavia.
- mnl 10y agoHuh? It's a geographical term for the mass of land that has been in use since the classical antiquity: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#Etymology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe#Etymology
- narag 10y agoThe meaning at the time was not so inclusive though.
- thaumasiotes 10y agoSimilarly, "Asia" has been used since antiquity as a term for the Near East, but for almost all of that time it certainly did not refer to what we now call "the continent of Asia". Are you more likely to think of Asia as containing Syria or China?