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The name Australia was specifically applied to the continent for the first time in 1794. [5] The name Australia (pronounced / ə ˈ s t r eɪ l i ə / in Australian English [6]) is derived from the Latin australis, meaning ' southern ', and specifically from the hypothetical Terra Australis postulated in pre-modern geography.
The first written mention of the name Austria is found in the work Historia Langobardorum by Paolo Diacono and dates back to 796. The name Austria is a latinization of German Österreich (that is, the spelling of the name Austria approximates, for the benefit of Latin speakers, the sound of the German name Österreich).
The meaning and origin of name of Latvian people is unclear, however the root lat-/let- is associated with several Baltic hydronyms and might share common origin with the Liet-part of neighbouring Lithuania (Lietuva, see below) and name of Latgalians – one of the Baltic tribes that are considered ancestors of modern Latvian people.
There are thousands of Austrian Australians, with many tracing their history to ancestors who arrived in the gold rush during the 1850s. Others came in the aftermath of World War I; during the war, non-naturalised Austro-Hungarians in Australia were interned. The 1920 Immigration Act prevented the arrival of more Austrians, and by 1933 just 286 ...
The name derives from the Bandjalang word meaning "camping place". Aboriginal names of suburbs of Brisbane , derived from the Turrbal language . Place names in Australia have names originating in the Australian Aboriginal languages for three main reasons: [ citation needed ]
The term Austrian in these times was used for identifying subjects of the Domus Austriae, the House of Austria, as the dynasty was called in Europe, regardless of their ethnic ancestry. Although not formally a united state, the lands ruled by the Habsburgs would sometimes be known by the name "Austria".
The human history of Australia, however, commences with the arrival of the first ancestors of Aboriginal Australians by sea from Maritime Southeast Asia between 50,000 and 65,000 years ago, and continues to the present day multicultural democracy. Aboriginal Australians settled throughout continental Australia and many nearby islands.
The name Australia (pronounced / ə ˈ s t r eɪ l i ə / in Australian English) [29] is derived from the Latin Terra Australis Incognita (' unknown southern land '), a name used for a hypothetical continent in the Southern Hemisphere since ancient times. [30] Several 16th-century cartographers used the word Australia on maps, but not to ...