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   Ethnonym

   An ethnonym (from the Greek: ἔθνος, éthnos, "nation" and ὄνομα, ónoma, "name") is the name applied to a given ethnic group. Ethnonyms can be divided into two categories: exonyms (where the name of the ethnic group has been created by another group of people) and autonyms or endonyms (where the name is created and used by the ethnic group itself).
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   Name of Poland

   The ethnonyms for the Poles (people) and Poland (their country) include endonyms (the way Polish people refer to themselves and their country) and exonyms (the way other peoples refer to the Poles and their country). Endonyms and most exonyms for Poles and Poland derive from the name of the West Slavic tribe of Polans (Polanie), while in some languages the exonyms for Poland derive from the name of another tribe – the Lendians (Lędzianie).
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   List of geographic names of Iranian origin

   This is a list of geographic names of Iranian origin. ... According to the Azerbaijan Development Gateway, the name of the town goes back to the ethnonym of the Sakas, who reached the territory of modern day Azerbaijan in the 7th century B.C. and populated it for several centuries.
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   Names of China

   Manchu: Nikan was a Manchu ethnonym of unknown origin that referred specifically to the ethnic group known in English as the Han Chinese; the stem of this word was also conjugated as a verb, nikara(-mbi), and used to mean "to speak the Chinese language." ... 3 Sometimes included in Oceania, and also known as Timor-Leste.
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   Albanians

   Ethnonym ... Kastrioti's strongholds included Kruja, Shkodra, Durres, Lezha, Petrela, Koxhaxhik and Berat.
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   Nivkhs

   The Nivkhs (also Nivkh, Nivkhi, or Gilyak; ethnonym: Nivxi; language, нивхгу - Nivxgu) are an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the region of the Amur River estuary in Russia's Khabarovsk Krai. Nivkh were mainly fishermen, hunters, and dog breeders. The Nivkh were semi-nomadic living near the coasts in the summer and wintering inland along streams and rivers to catch salmon.
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   Demonym

   See also: Ethnonym ... There will often be differences between endonyms (terms used by groups themselves) and exonyms (terms used by outsiders to describe a group).
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   Donghu people

   Donghu (simplified Chinese: 东胡; traditional Chinese: 東胡; pinyin: Dōnghú; Wade-Giles: Tung-hu; literally: "Eastern Foreigners" or "Eastern 'Barbarians'") was the name of a normadic tribal confederation that existed from early Zhou Dynasty crica 1100 BC to Han Dynasty circa 150 BC when the confederation was destroyed by Xiongnu. ... Whether or not it had originally been an ethnonym, such a designation had been lost by the Warring States period.
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   Arvanites

   Arvanites (Greek: Αρβανίτες, Arvanitika: Arbëreshë or Αρbε̰ρεσ̈ε̰) are a population group in Greece who traditionally speak Arvanitika, a dialect of Albanian. ... The name Arvanites and its equivalents go back to an old ethnonym that used in Greek to refer to Albanians.
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    Byzantine Greeks

    In modern times, the Greek people still use the ethnonym Romaioi or rather Romioi to refer to themselves. ... This society included various classes of people that were neither exclusive nor immutable.

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