https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberians (in present day Spain/Portugal)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Iberia (in present day Georgia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Eastern_Europe/)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galicia_(Spain/)
western asia doesn’t exist, it’s just the middle east /s
I find it quite funny that asia is the only continent with only south, east, and south east cardinal directions.
South Asia : Indian Subcontinent
East Asia : China, Korea, Japan
Southeast Asia : Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, etc (even Philippines)
Central Asia : Kazakhstan , other Turkic/Non Iran Iranic countriesWest asia just gets thrown into “middle East”. North Asia is basically Russia.
Some people deliberately say Western Asia instead of Middle East to avoid eurocentric terminology. Similarly, indigenous communities inside Russian colonies prefer North Asia over Siberia
indigenous communities inside Russian colonies prefer North Asia over Siberia
I didn’t know this, thanks! It makes me think about a documentary I watched (happy people of the taiga or something). I don’t remember this coming up, but that wasn’t what I remember that being about.
The title sounds like Russian propaganda
Couldn’t say, I looked it up, looks like it’s a Werner Herzog film. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_People:_A_Year_in_the_Taiga
western asia doesn’t exist, it’s just the middle east /s
It depends on where one assumes the European/Asian border. Our first Western German chancellor placed it much further west than the Ural:
When I arrive in the North German Plain near Magdeburg, Asia begins for me.
― Konrad AdenauerBased. Fuck placating the russians in pretending they’re “good enough” to be called European.
(No slight against Asia, I’m saying the russians aspire to be something they are not as part of trying to gain cachet they don’t deserve)
Asia, probably: “Fuck, we ain’t claiming them.”
And right next to Iberia, there was Albania for extra confusion
There doesn’t seem to be overlap from an etymological standpoint. Fascinating.
Galicia: Western Europe Eastern Europe
