The Atlas Of True Names

[theweaselking]

Maps with place names traced etymologically and translated into English.

Comments

[cosmiccat.livejournal.com]

UNFORDABLE RIVER TOWN.

I like how Pakistan apparently translates to "Land of Five Rivers, Horsemen, And Turtles". I feel better about the ridiculous place-names in my D&D games now, knowing that the real world is just as silly.

[aeduna.livejournal.com]

Due to a lack of interest in fish (and possibly an aneurism), I once named a country in a D&D game what I thought sounded like Sal-mon.

[awesomelies.livejournal.com]

Kinda-sorta. It actually means "land of the pure" but is a patch-up of the country's constituent parts Punjab, Afghan, Kashmir, Sind and Baluchistan, some bits of which refer to rivers, horsemen and whatnot.