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   Kyrgyzstan

   The ethnonym "Kyrgyz", after which the country is named, is thought to originally mean either "forty girls" or "forty tribes", presumably referring to the epic hero Manas who, as legend has it, unified forty tribes against the Khitans. ... The mountainous region of the Tian Shan covers over 80% of the country (Kyrgyzstan is occasionally referred to as "the Switzerland of Central Asia", as a result), with the remainder made up of valleys and basins.
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   Uokil

   In the Middle Asia, the ethnonym Uokil left its trace in a name of a hero Vekil in the Oguz epos "Kitab-i dedem Korkut" . ... The text of the Uigur Eletmish-Kagan (d. 759) funeral monument referred to the "Igil people", using determinative qara - "blackness" (qara igil bodun, in the Mogoin Shine Usu monument, line 14).
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   List of etymologies of country subdivision names

   Chechnya: the Russian ethnonym Chechen probably derives from the name of the ancient village of Chechana or Chechen-aul. ... Kharkiv Oblast: from the city Kharkiv, legendarily named for the mythical Ukrainian folk-hero Kharko (died ca 1737)
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   List of geographic names of Iranian origin

   Named after the Iranian Azeri hero Babak Khorramdin ... 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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   List of country name etymologies

   The ethnonym Hunni (referring to the Huns) has influenced the Latin (and English) spelling. ... A recent and romantic descriptive name, "Pearl of the Orient Seas", derives from the poem, Mi Ultimo Adios, written by Philippine nationalist hero José Rizal.
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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 Nivkhs suffered severely from the Cossack conquest and imposition of the Tsarist Russians referred as kinrsh (devils) by the Nivkh.
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   East Danes

   East Dane is an Anglo-Saxon ethnonym which was used in the epic Beowulf as a kenning for the Geats, the people of Götaland without Scania in southern Sweden. ... Thus the Heardings named that hero.
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   Tatars

   Tatars (Tatar: Tatarlar/Татарлар), sometimes spelled Tartars, are a Turkic ethnic group numbering 10 million in the late 20th Century, including all subgroups of Tatar people, such as Crimean Tatars, Volga Tatars, and Lipka Tatars. ... Some voices even advocate the change of the ethnonym from "Tatars" to "Bulgars" - a movement known as Bulgarism.
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   Götaland

   The name Götaland is probably a plural construction and means the "lands of the Geats", where Göta- is the genitive plural of the ethnonym Göt (Geat). ... Geatland is the land in which the medieval hero of the poem, Beowulf, is said to have lived.
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    Arvanites

    The name Arvanites and its equivalents go back to an old ethnonym that used in Greek to refer to Albanians. It originally referred to the inhabitants of that region Arvanon (Άρβανον) or Arvana (Άρβανα), and then to all Albanian-speakers.

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• List of country name etymologies,
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• East Danes,
• Tatars,
• Götaland,
• Arvanites

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