comment here that I'm always in love with Finland and Scandinavia, but never about what was to Scandinavia, I bet there are many people who do not know what is right, and the origin of the word in this sense created this post, hope you like ^ ^
WHAT?
Scandinavia is a geographical and historical region of northern Europe and that includes, in the strictest sense, Sweden and Norway, although many geographers also include Denmark and, more rarely, Finland, the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Whatever definition is used, it is considered the Scandinavian peninsula as a core principal of Scandinavia. The set gives Scandinavia + Finland is the designation Fennoscandia (In English: Fenno-Scandia).
Due to the successive waves of glaciation, Scandinavia was repeatedly depopulated and devoid of terrestrial fauna and flora over time. The scholars point to as the birthplace of some of the Germanic peoples and the Vikings.
As a purely historical and geographical region, Scandinavia does not match any defined political boundaries. The use of the term is often uncertain, sometimes including and sometimes excluding countries bordering the peninsula scanned.
In contrast to the ambiguity surrounding the term Scandinavia, the term "Nordic countries" is used to refer with certainty the number of countries formed by Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Iceland, including their associated territories (Greenland, Faroe Islands and Åland). Those countries are members of the Nordic Council.
ORIGIN OF TERM
The terms "Scandinavia" and "Scania (Skåne) have the same etymology. The earliest known source for the term "Scandinavia" is the Natural History of Pliny the Elder dating from the first century AD Other references to region are found in Pytheas, Pomponio Mela, Tacitus, Ptolemy, Procopius and Jordanes.
It is believed that the name used by Pliny to be of West Germanic origin, originally referring to Skåne. According to some of the leading scholars of the subject, the Germanic root can be reconstructed as * Skaðan ("danger" or "damage"), while the second segment of the term is reconstructed as * awjo ("ground water" or "island"). The name "Scandinavia" would then mean "dangerous island," perhaps a reference to the treacherous shoals around of Skåne.
was widespread among the classic authors of the century, the belief that Scandinavia was an island. This idea, along with Scandia that Pliny used for a group of northern islands, dominated descriptions of Scandinavia in classical texts over the centuries. The "Scandinavia" of Pliny was perhaps one of the islands "Scandia". This idea was taken up by Ptolemy, who used the term "Skandia" for the largest and easternmost of the three islands "Scandia" which he said were at the eastern Jutland. Ptolemy referred to the entire "island" of Scandinavia by the name "Scandia", including to areas much farther north of the current Skåne, but not lists of Scandinavian tribes Pliny's nor Ptolemy included the Suio mentioned by Tacitus. Some of the early Swedish scholars loved us then, the argument that the texts contained Suio but were later removed by mistake.
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