Europe is name after a phonecian princess

[rajputprincess]

Her name was princess europa there are story that zeus took bull form and later kidnapped her Europe is name after her according to many people.

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[Pandur]

Turn off your ZUCC Z69 and stop acting retarded.

[Ülev]

not at all!

from Latin euro - east, pa(rt/rs) - east part = conquered territories (with introduced new religion etc.)

eurus, euri
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noun

declension: 2nd declension
gender: masculine

Definitions:

east (or south east) wind
the east

Age: In use throughout the ages/unknown
Area: All or none
Geography: All or none
Frequency: For Dictionary, in top 20,000 words
Source: General, unknown or too common to say

http://latin-dictionary.net/search/english/east

so basically Europe is a therm given to conquered (by Roman Empire) lands - east of that empire