It may be a continuation of the Assyrian Armânum which was conquered by Naram-Sin in 2200 BC and has been identified with an Akkadian colony in the Diarbekr region.
Latinized from Greek Armenía ( Ἀρμενία), "Land of the Armenioi" ( Αρμένιοι) attested in the 5th century BC, from Old Persian Armina ( ) attested in the late 6th century BC, of uncertain origin. Main articles: Etymology of Armenia and Armenia (name) Etymology unknown. One folk etymology holds that it derives from the Biblical Endor, a name bestowed by Louis le Debonnaire after defeating the Moors in the "wild valleys of Hell". Andorra was established as part of Charlemagne's Marca Hispanica and its name may derive from Arabic ad-Darra ( الدرا, "the Forest") or Navarro-Aragonese andurrial ("scrubland"). Algiers or Algier, former names: As above. (These islands joined the mainland in 1525.) An alternate theory traces the Arabic further back to a transcription of the Berber Ldzayer in reference to Ziri ibn Manad, founder of the Zirid dynasty, whose son Buluggin ibn Ziri resettled the city. This was a truncated form of the city's older name, Jazā’ir Banī Māzġānna ( جزائر بني مازغان, "Islands of the sons of Mazġannā"), which referred to four islands off the city's coast which were held by a local Sanhaja tribe. The city's name derives from French Alger, itself from Catalan Aldjère, from the Ottoman Turkish Cezayir and Arabic al-Jazāʼir ( الجزائر, "the Islands"). Main articles: Etymology of Algeria and Etymology of Algiers "Land of Algiers", a Latinization of French colonial name l'Algérie adopted in 1839. A popular pseudoetymology ("Land of the Eagles") erroneously derives it instead from shqiponjë ("eagle"). Shqipëri, its modern endonym: "Land of the Understanding", from the Albanian adverb shqip, "understanding each other". Arnavutluk, its Ottoman Turkish name: "Land of the Albanians", a metathesis from Byzantine Greek Arbanitai and the Turkish locative suffix -lik or -luk. An Arbanitai were mentioned in Attaliates's History as subjects of the Duke of Dyrrachium, near modern Durrës. Arbëri, its medieval endonym: "Land of the Albanians" in Albanian, presumably from the same source as above by way of rhotacism. The demonym has been supposed to ultimately originate from Latin alba ("white") or from the proposed Proto-Indo-European * alb ("hill") or * alb- ("white"). Both may be survivals of the earlier Illyrian tribe, the Albani of the Albanopolis northeast of modern Durrës which appears in Ptolemy around AD 150. In her Alexiad, Anna Comnena also mentions a settlement called Albanon or Arbanon. Main articles: Names of the Albanians and Albania and Albania (toponym) "Land of the Albanians", Latinized from Byzantine Greek Albanía (Αλβανία), land of the rebel Albanoi (Αλβανοι) mentioned in Michael Attaliates The History around AD 1080. The Hindu Rigveda praises Kubhā as an "ideal city." Albania The city has also been linked to the Kabolitae ( Ancient Greek: Καβωλῖται, Kabōlîtai) and Cabura ( Κάβουρα, Káboura). Kabulistan, a former name: "Land of Kabul", a city probably deriving its name from the nearby Kabul River which was known in Sanskrit and Avestan as the Kubhā, possibly from Scythian ku ("water"). The modern Constitution of Afghanistan, however, states that the word "Afghan" shall apply to every citizen of Afghanistan. The last part of the name, " -stan" is a Persian suffix for "place of." Therefore, "Afghanistan" translates to "land of the Afghans," or "land of the Pashtuns" in a historical sense. The Persian form of the name, Afġān was first attested in the 10th-century geography book Hudud al-'Alam. Historically, the ethnonym Afghān was used to refer to ethnic Pashtuns. Aśvakan literally means "horsemen", "horse breeders", or " cavalrymen" (from aśva or aspa, the Sanskrit and Avestan words for " horse"). Main article: Name of Afghanistan "Land of the Afghans", the root name " Afghān" is, according to some scholars, derived from the name of the Aśvakan or Assakan, ancient inhabitants of the Hindu Kush region.
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