>Mediaeval Ghana and Modern Ghana don't overlap at all
>Neither Sudan nor South Sudan are in the Sudan region
What's going on here? Are these terms unrelated and the similarity is coincidence? Is it caused by nomadic groups taking terms with them? Or is it some weird version of wewuzzing?
the word 'sudan' is literally just arabic for 'place of black people' or something like that IIRC
the modern state of sudan took it's name from the arabic word for western africa because black people i guess
in short, arabs aren't very creative with names
So kind of like "Niger" and "Nigeria" both meaning "black" (ultimately from the Niger River, aka river for black people)?
>mfw there are 2 Albania's
>mfw there are two Georgias
>mfw there are two Galicias
>mfw there are five Springfields in Wisconsin alone
>There's an Iberia in Iberia and an Iberia in the Caucasus.
>mfw there's a place called King of Prussia
>mfw there's not a king in Prussia
Sud is south, the French came up with it.
>mfw there were literally a dozen Alexandrias
Sorry, meant this one. I should rename the map, derp.