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Some countries whose endonyms are not like their English exonyms (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Korea is called Korea because of Goryeo, which was one of the historical unifying states that brought together the Later Three Kingdoms...

It's a little hard to explain because the kingdoms would often "unify" (aka conquer) the other kingdoms, eventually fall, and the later kingdoms would often adopt those previous names. Would be here all day trying to explain it.

But yeah, Goguryeo, one of the Kingdoms, romanized their name to "Koryo" which was later also used by Goryeo. Goryeo was named as an adaptation of Goguryeo so... yeah. Confusing.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Was there someplace called Silla or similar?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yes, Silla was a kingdom, and then it became the main ruling kingdom for a while, and then it fragmented again, but one of the fragments was still called Silla... :)