The United States sponsored UN resolutions condemning the Soviet invasion, and called. ‘Myan’ means swift and ‘mar’ tough or strong. The day after the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down due to arson, President Hindenburg issues the Decree for the. On November 4, Soviet forces moved into Hungary and suppressed the revolt. Named Burma for the nation’s largest ethnic group, the Burmans, it’s a slow adaptation from Portuguese and previously various Indian language words and a colloquial oral version of the old Burmese word Mranma, which became Myanmar. Myanmar, or Burma, has a complicated history for one of the more complimentary translations in this world map – Swift and Strong. Azerbaijan’s intriguing Protected by Fire moniker refers to an Azerbaijani phrase and cultural concept denoting its entire geography - the metaphysical realm of mortals.

But rather than the sea it likely refers to its location astride Euphrates and Tigris rivers. The world’s biggest and most populated continent is unsurprisingly rife with extraordinary and intriguing place names.Īlmost landlocked Iraq, with a tiny 36-mile-long coastline, can be interpreted as Beside the Water from the Arabic al-’irāq.

Multicultural Asia offers extraordinary names derived from many languages.

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