Naples. And English is the odd one, not Italian. Most languages use exonyms. Germans call Venice Venedig and Estonia Estland, the French call Spain l’Espagne. T

Naples. And English is the odd one, not Italian. Most languages use exonyms. Germans call Venice Venedig and Estonia Estland, the French call Spain l’Espagne. The same process of translation for names was completely normal across Europe well into the 1800s.