Alternative History:Alternate Names

You will find here alternate name for countries in OTL that could be used in alternate histories. These were either briefly used or proposed around the time of creation but discarded. Feel free to add entries but try to refrain from adding personal suggestions.

Argentina

 * Rio de La Plata

Austria

 * United States of Greater Austria was proposed in 1906.
 * Ostmark (East March) - medieval name, and the name under Nazis.

Canada

 * Acadia, the French colony.

The names proposed for the Dominion formed in 1867:

In addition, "Kingdom of Canada" was the prefered name among Canadians. "Dominion" was chosen largely as a result of American objections.
 * Albertsland (after Prince Albert).
 * Albionora ("northern Albion").
 * Borealia (from a latin word meaning north).
 * Britannia
 * Cabotia (after John Cabot, one of the early european navigator to land in modern day Canada).
 * Colonia
 * Efisga (a combination of the first letters of England, France, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Aboriginal lands).
 * Hochelaga (a name used on early map to represent a large part of modern day central Canada, also former name of Montreal).
 * Norland
 * Superior
 * Transatlantia ("over the atlantic" from the british point of view).
 * Tupona (an acrostic for the United Provinces of North America).
 * Victorialand (after queen victoria)

China

 * Zhonghua, Zhongguo, Chinese.
 * Sin, Sinae, Hebrew and Latin respectively.
 * Kina, Hina, Shina, variants of "China".
 * Ser, Seres, the ancient Greek and Roman name for the north-western part of China; the word "silk" ultimately comes from it).
 * Cathay (English), Cataya, Kitai (Latin), Kitad (Mongolian), Kitay (Russian), from the Khitan people who lived in Northern China, introduced by Marco Polo.
 * Chuka, Chugoku, Kara, Morokoshi, Japanese names.

Colombia

 * New Granada (Nueva Granada in Spanish).
 * Gran Colombia Name of the federation of Ecuador, Colombia, and Venezuela.

Ecuador

 * Quito

Ethiopia

 * Abyssinia name for the Ethiopian Empire which in OTL existed between 1270-1975.

France

 * Gaul, Gallia - Roman name.

Germany

 * Germania, the name in Latin.
 * Deutschland, the name in German.
 * Dutchland, English rendering of the name above, later applied to the Netherlands only. See also: Low Countries.
 * Teutonia, alternative name in Latin, perceived as Latinate form of Deutschland.
 * Alemannia, Allemagne, Almaniya etc., the names adopted in most Romance and Muslim languages.
 * East Francia, a name for Germany during the Carolingian era.
 * Saxony, one of the dominating states, whose name is applied to whole Germany in some Finnish languages.
 * Prussia, the dominating state in the 19th century; the name was informally applied to the German Empire.
 * Niemcy, Nimechchyna etc. (literally "the country of the mute"), the names adopted in most Slavic languages.
 * Swabia, after an important ancient tribe, informal name in some South Slavic languages.
 * Suðrvegr (i.e. "south way"), the name used by Vikings (opposite to Norway)
 * Tedeschia, informal name in Italian (after tedesco, the adjective for "German").
 * The Hunnic Empire, an ancient empire traditionally associated with the Germans.
 * The Holy Roman Empire, the Union of the German states in the Middle Ages.
 * Union of German Countries was proposed for a confederation in 1948.

Ghana

 * Ashanti - kingdom occupying approximately same area as Ghana.
 * Gold Coast former European name for Ghana.

Iran

 * Aryana, "land of the Aryans". Identical in meaning to "Iran".
 * Persia

Low Countries

 * Batavia, name derived from an old tribe that lived in the northern Low Countries. Historically used by the Dutch "Batavian Republic".
 * Belgica, historical Latin province. Later used as Latin name for the Low Countries. After 1830 solely referring to the southern parts of which.
 * Belgium, België, Belgique, Respectively the Anglicized, Dutch and French versions of "Belgica".
 * Benelux, acronym of Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. First formally used in 1955.
 * Dietsland, Dietschland, derived from a Middle Dutch word for "Dutch" that has fallen into disuse. Was popular among Dutch and Flemish National Socialists during World War II. Still used by right wing advocates of Greater or Whole Netherlandism.
 * Dutchland, Thiogne, Anglicized and French versions of "Dietsland". See also: Germany.
 * Flanders, until the Dutch revolts the dominant region in the Low Countries. Often erroneously applied to the whole of the Low Countries. Unlikely candidate to be formally adopted as such without outside interference. Currently applied to the Dutch speaking halve of Belgium.
 * Holland, dominant region in the Northern Netherlands after the Dutch revolts. Often erroneously applied to the whole of the Northern Netherlands. Unlikely candidate to be formally adopted as such without outside interference (e.g. the Napoleonic Kingdom of Holland).
 * Lower Lotharingia, Lothier, early medieval name for the Low Countries, including parts of the German Rhineland and Palatinate.
 * Netherlands, synonymous with "Low Countries". After 1830 solely referring to the Northern Netherlands.
 * Wallonia, name referring to the francophone part of the Low Countries.

Portugal

 * Lusitania, after the Roman province.
 * Olissiponia, after the Roman name of the city of Lisbon.

Russia

 * Rus or Rus’, the oldest name (since pre-Christianity times).
 * Ruscia or Ruthenia, Latinate forms of the oldest name.
 * Urus, Oros, Urys, Orys etc., the name used by the Mongol and Tatar conquerors in 13th-15th centuries.
 * Muscovy or Moscovia, the centralised principality/kingdom with the centre in Moscow since 14th century eventually conquering whole Russia, as opposed to the other Russian states.
 * Great(er) Russia, Russia Magna, Makra Rosia, or Velikorossia, as opposed to other Russian nations (Ukraine ("Small Russia") and Belarus) in English, Latin, Greek, and Russian respectively.
 * Black Russia, Russia Nigra, as opposed to Belarus ("White Russia").
 * White Russia, Russia Alba, sometimes, probably as opposed to the areas occupied by the Poles and Lithuanians.
 * Rossia or Rossiya, the name in Russian.
 * Hyperborea, Scythia, antique names sometimes applied to Russia in poetry.
 * Siberia, Sibir (in Russian), the name of the largest region of Russia (Asian part of Russia).
 * The Soviet Union, the Soviets, the names of the Communist state that existed in Russia in the 20th century.

South Africa

 * Azania, term used in place of "South Africa" by some opponents of the white-minority rule.

Spain

 * Iberia, after pre-Roman inhabitants of the peninsula.
 * Hispania, Latin name.
 * Al-Andalus, Spain under Arabs.
 * Castile, the largest kingdom until it united with Aragon.
 * Asturias, León, Navarra, Aragón, other mediaeval kingdoms.
 * Baetica or Hispania Baetica or Hispania Ulterior ("Farther Spain") (Southern Spain); Hispania Tarraconensis or Hispania Citerior ("Closer Spain") (North-East Spain); Gallaecia (North-West Spain), the names of the Roman provinces in Spain
 * Visigothic Kingdom, covered most of the present-day Spain (418–721).
 * Pyrenean Peninsula, alternative name of the peninsula.
 * España, Spanish name.

Sweden

 * Svea Rike

United Kingdom

 * Albion Name applied to Great Britain by Pliny the Elder. All the islands of Britain were known as "the Britanniae".
 * Britain, Britannia.

United States

 * Vinland
 * Columbia
 * Fredonia
 * Appalachia
 * Amerigo Vespucci-land
 * Usonia
 * Gringoland
 * Washingtonia
 * USONA (United States Of North America)
 * Hesperia ("Land of Evening/Sunset"), as one of the countries the Romans located beyond the Ocean).
 * New England

Ukraine

 * Ukrayina, the name in Ukrainian
 * Small Russia or Small Ruthenia, Little Russia or Little Ruthenia, Malorossia (in Russian/Ukrainian), Mikra Rosia (in Greek), Russia Minor or Russia Parva (in Latin), Mala Rus’ (in Old Slavic), as opposed to Russia (Great Russia)
 * Zaporozhia, Zaporozhzhya (in Ukrainian), Zaporozhye (in Russian) ("The land below the rapids (of the Dnieper River)"), the land of the Ukrainian Cossacks (south-eastern Ukraine).
 * Rus’, self-name in the Middle Ages (shared with Russia).
 * Galicia, Halychyna (in Ukrainian), the most influential Ukrainian principality in the middle ages; later the name of the Ukrainian region within the Austrian Empire, and a Ukrainian entity that existed during the German Occupation in 1941-1944 (north-western Ukraine).
 * New Russia, Novorossia, Novorossiya (in Russian), Novorosiya (in Ukrainian), the land of the southern Ukrainian (formerly Crimean) lands, colonised by the Russian Empire in the 18th-19th centuries.
 * Scythia, Sarmatia, after the names of the ancient peoples that dwelt in the region.

Venezuela

 * El Libertador, after Simón Bolívar the Liberator, proposed name.
 * Klein-Venedig, failed German colony.

Zimbabwe

 * (Southern) Rhodesia, name used during white-minority rule. Rhodesia originally had a broader meaning that included modern day Zambia.