Which would explain it. So the early explorer who named the place was
an Ancient Greek, maybe even Alexander.
On 7/5/2015 11:55 AM, Bob W-PDML wrote:
It's been called India since the time of the ancient Greeks.
B
On 5 Jul 2015, at 16:51, P.J. Alling <[email protected]> wrote:
One small point, I don't think it was the British who named the whole place India, it was
the Portuguese Spanish or Italians, (I'm a bit hazy on that, I could look it up I
suppose), some early explorer wanted to know what the land was called and some local gave
the name for local area that sounded to the foreigner something like "India",
which most Europeans picked up for the entire sub continent. [...]
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