European Countries by Etymology

When given a definition of a country's name, guess the country.

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Name Meaning	Country
Éiru, an old word for the matron goddess of the island	Ireland
Literally "land of the Greeks"	Greece
"Land of the Svea"	Sweden
"Warm port" in Latin	Portugal
One possible meaning is "shrub-covered land"	Andorra
Might be related to "khrebet," a word for "mountain chain"	Croatia
"Black Mountain"	Montenegro
Named after a Slavic tribe in central Bohemia	Czech Republic
"Land of the Franks"	France
Named for its icy fjords	Iceland
"Land of the Slavs"	Slovakia
"Land of the Slovenes"	Slovenia
Roman name for the northern part of Gaul	Belgium
Possibly a native name for "waterside dwellers"	Estonia
One theory is that it means "family kinship" and "alliance"	Serbia

Name Meaning	Country
"Land of young bulls"	Italy
"Lower" lands	Netherlands
Derived from an ancient tribe, known as the Latgalians	Latvia
"Field of blackbirds"	Kosovo
The Act of Union, by the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland	United Kingdom
"Land of the Sami"	Finland
"Eastern realm"	Austria
Might come from the river Bosna	Bosnia and Herzegovina
The historic Principality of Moldavia	Moldova
Derived from the name of an Etruscan settlement, Vatica or Vaticum	Vatican City
Likely means "borderland"	Ukraine
"Dane" + "border"	Denmark
The Greek word "meli," meaning honey	Malta
Name of its people, "ungari"	Hungary
Old Norse for "the men who row"	Russia

Name Meaning	Country
"Highlanders" in ancient Greek	North Macedonia
"Bright stone"	Liechtenstein
"Single house"	Monaco
"The Land of Fields"	Poland
Likely derived from the ancient Illyrian tribe	Albania
"Saint Marinus"	San Marino
One theory is that it derives from a verb meaning "to pour"	Lithuania
Literally "White Russia"	Belarus
"Citizen of the Roman Empire"	Romania
Named after one of its original cantons, called Schwyz	Switzerland
"Little castle"	Luxembourg
"The men from the Bolg"	Bulgaria
"Northern way"	Norway
From an ancient name for a tribe living east of the Rhine River	Germany
Comes from the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsula	Spain

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