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European Country Names Explained

One of them means land of the rabbits

Watts takes the whole map in one pass, and the pleasure is how rarely the answer is grand. One country is named for its rabbits. Germany collected a different name from each neighbour that met a different tribe first. The Dutch turn out not to live where their name says. And the word cravat is a French mangling of Hrvat — Croat — after the scarves their cavalry wore.

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