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Huh? 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://e
by mnl 10y ago
Huh? 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?