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One thing I can't help but find odd is that there are a lot of Christians named Jesus (or some variant of it), but hardly any Muslims named Muhammad. Is there a reason for that?

Forgive me if the answer is obvious, I belong to neither religion, but why is that the case?

OTL, the Frankish empire was split into 3 kingdoms: East, West, and Middle Francia. East Francia became Germany, west Francia became France. Central Francia collapsed, and so was only remembered by its initial, and very unoriginal, name. Suppose the Frankish Empire was split differently, and...

I mean, it's all nice and dandy to call new colonised places after whatever king is on the throne at the time (way too many French Louises by the way), but I wonder what other names could inspire the Frenchies (apart from "Nouvelle France" ofc) to describe this vast territory they claim as theirs.

eh, might as well just get to the point. Etymology The name India as used by most European languages came from Latin: India, which came from ancient Greek: Ινδία (Indía) which is from Ινδός (Indós) [ the Indus river], which was borrowed from old Persian: (Hindūš), modern Farsi: هند‎‎ (Hend)...

In the historical example the annexed counties would have become a part of the city of San Francisco acting like New York City's outer boroughs, New York however has the advantage of the central borough, Manhattan, having a distinct name and identity to the city as a whole. The proposal went...

I like geography, if you'd couldn't tell. I also like naming things, particularly places. Etymology has always interested me, and it bothers me when a region has an exceptionally boring name (Southeast Asian Islands, for example) that you need cardinal directions and geologic features just to...

Without being derived from Hispania, like España/Spain is, what names could the area we know as modern-day Spain have (whether it be for a Hispano-Roman state that was never conquered by Muslims, a surviving Al-Andalus, or post-Reconquista)?