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Slava
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Africa

Postby Slava » Sat Feb 11, 2023 8:27 am

I realized I had no idea why Africa is called Africa, so I looked on the Internot and came up with this. So many theories it's hard to pick just one. I lean toward the Latin root myself, but then again, we don't know where the seed of that root came from.

The root of Europe is rather misty, too.
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