This list includes the Roman names of countries, or significant regions, known to the Roman Empire.
Latin Name | Current Name |
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Achaea | Greece |
Africa | Tunisia |
Aegyptus | Egypt |
Albania | Georgia, Azerbaijan |
Anatolia | Turkey (East) |
Arabia | Arabian peninsula |
Ariana | Afghanistan, Iran (East) and Central Asia (West) |
Armenia | Armenia |
Armorica | Brittany |
Asia | Turkey (West) |
Baetica | Andalusia |
Batavia | Part of the Netherlands |
Belgae | Belgium and the Netherlands |
Bithynia | Turkey (North West) |
Bohemia | Czech Republic |
Borussia | Prussia |
Britannia | Britain |
Caledonia | Scotland |
Cambria | Wales |
Cilicia | Turkey (South East) |
Cornubia | Cornwall |
Creta | Crete |
Cyprus | Cyprus |
Cyrenaica | Libya (East) |
Dacia | Romania, Moldova |
Dalmatia | Montenegro |
Dania | Denmark |
Dalmatia | Croatia South, Bosnia and Herzegovina West and South |
D(i)ocle(ti)a | Montenegro |
Epirus | Epirus: composed of the Albania South and Greek Epirus |
Finnia | Finland |
Foenicia or Phoenicia | Lebanon |
Galatia | Turkey (Central) |
Gallaecia | Galicia and Portugal north |
Gallia | France |
Germania | Germany |
Graecia | Greece |
Helvetia | Switzerland |
Hibernia | Ireland |
Hispania | Spain |
Hungaria | Hungary |
Iaponia | Japan |
Iberia | Iberian peninsula |
India | India and the Indian subcontinent |
Islandia | Iceland |
Illyria, Illyricum | Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina South, Serbia South West, Montenegro, Albania North West |
Italia | Mainland Italy |
Iudaea | Judea |
Lappia | Lapland |
Lechia, Polonia | Poland |
Libani | Lebanon |
Libya | Eastern Libya, Western Egypt |
Lituania | Lithuania |
Livonia | Estonia and Latvia |
Lusitania | Portugal central and south |
Macedonia | Macedon: composed of the Republic of Macedonia and Greek Macedonia |
Mauretania | Morocco North, Algeria North West |
Melitae, Melitensium, Melitensis | Malta |
Moesia | Bulgaria, Serbia |
Noricum | mainly Austria South and Slovenia North |
Norvegia | Norway |
Numidia | Algeria North East |
Palaestina | Israel, Palestine |
Pannonia | Hungary, Croatia North, Slovenia North East |
Parthia | Iran |
Phoenicia | Lebanon |
Polonia, Lechia | Poland |
Pontus | Turkey North East |
Raetia | Switzerland North |
Ruthenia | Russia, Ukraine, Belarus |
Sarmatia | Eastern Europe: Poland, Ukraine, Russia |
Scandinavia | Scandinavian peninsula |
Scotia | Scotland |
Seres, Sinae | China |
Sicilia | Sicily |
Suecia | Sweden |
Syria | Syria |
Scythia | Ukraine |
Scythia Minor | Dobruja |
Tarraconensis | Spain North East |
Tartaria | Russia, Tartary |
Thracia | Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey |
Tingitania | Morocco |
Tripolitana | Libya |
Famous quotes containing the words latin names, latin, names and/or countries:
“But these young scholars, who invade our hills,
Bold as the engineer who fells the wood,
And travelling often in the cut he makes,
Love not the flower they pluck, and know it not
And all their botany is Latin names.
The old men studied magic in the flowers.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)
“They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis [a sheep].”
—Plutarch (46120)
“The instincts of merry England lingered on here with exceptional vitality, and the symbolic customs which tradition has attached to each season of the year were yet a reality on Egdon. Indeed, the impulses of all such outlandish hamlets are pagan still: in these spots homage to nature, self-adoration, frantic gaieties, fragments of Teutonic rites to divinities whose names are forgotten, seem in some way or other to have survived mediaeval doctrine.”
—Thomas Hardy (18401928)
“At the end of one millennium and nine centuries of Christianity, it remains an unshakable assumption of the law in all Christian countries and of the moral judgment of Christians everywhere that if a man and a woman, entering a room together, close the door behind them, the man will come out sadder and the woman wiser.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)