Meaning of country names.

No, Egypt does not mean "land of the black people", it's an afrocentric myth produced by black racists. The word Qmt simply means "Black", but the last hieroglyph (the "X" in a cirkle) is a determinative and points out that it is a place. If it would have been "Land of black people", a determinative hieroglyph in the shape of a man and a woman would have preceeded the "X" hieroglyph

Btw Egypt had many names in antiquity, most common was Tauwi - "The two lands"

Origin of the word HUNGARY goes back to IX/X centuries, when Magyar tribes were settling Carpatian Basin and invading Europe. Their way of living and fighting, normal for steppe nomads, reminded people HUNS, so they called them Hungarians. Moreover Hungarians themselves thought they are offsprings of Huns or at last their relatives. Even nowadays name ATILLA is as popular as it was in middle ages.

Ugric tribes of Magyars during their migration met Turkish tribes ON - OGUR, which means 'ten arrows' or 'ten generations', and lived with them on the steppes for few centuries. That`s why other nations mixed their names. Even emperor Constantine Porphirogen in his 'De administrande imperio' called Hungarians 'Turks'.

Hungarians call their homeland MAGYARORSZAG, which means 'the land of Magyars'. The word Magyar goes from MAGYARAZAT - to explain, to talk with understanding, so Magyar is 'the one who understands'.

Many nations have their name after words which have something to do with talking, understanding or explaining. Let`s  take SLAVS. The root of their name is SLOVO / SLOWO which means 'a word'. From that noun they called themselves SLOWIANIE - 'people who use words'. Names SLOVAKIA and SLOVENIA also derives from that. 

POLAND = POLSKA is from the name POLANIE, one of the tribes of western Slavs, as Polish Ucrainian Canadian mentioned above. The etymology of the name Polanie goes from POLE = 'a field'. So, Polska means not only 'land of Polanie', but first of all 'the land of fields'.      

 I think that is wrong,  Egypt simply means Black land because the soil around the nile is  black. Egypt is also referred as the gift of the nile. But the original Egyptians were without doubt africans. After egypt open itself to the outside world, the pharaohs started to marry asians, somehow the royalty was less black afterward. By the time of the romans, the royalty was even white. The original population would have been something like btw the ethiopian and the nubians. The warrior like pharaohs usually came from the region near nubia to restore order each time the northern part was in anarchy.

 The black racist have exaggerated the matter ,however, although the original egyptians were africans, the country after Ramses reign was dynamic and interacting with asia.

ALBANIAThose who do not accept this view. Well I know your arguements already so......)

One of the first written evidences of the use of the word " Albanoi " as the name of an Illyrian tribe in what is now north-central Albania goes back to the 130 A.D., in a work of Tolomeo. Albanopolis of the Albani, a place located on the map of Ptolemy (3.12.20) and also named on an ancient family epitaph at Scupi, which has been identified with the Zg�rdhesh hill-fort near Kruja in northern Albania. Moreover, Arbanon is just likely to be the name of a district - the plain of the Mat has been suggested - rather than particular place. An indication of movement from higher altitudes in a much earlier period has been detected in the distribution of place-names ending in -esh that appears to derive from the latin -enisis or -esis, between the Shkumbin and the Mat, with a concentration between Elbasan and Kruja.

The term Albanoi may have been slowly spread to other Illyrian tribes until its usage became universal among all the Albanian people. According to the Albanian scholar Fa�k bey Konitza, the term "Albania" did not displace "Illyria" completely until the end of the fourteenth century. The word "Alba" or "Arba" seems to be connected with the town Arba (modern Rab, Croatia), in prehistoric times inhabited by the Illyrian Liburnians, first mentioned in 360 BC. The root of the name comes from Illyrian Arb ("dark", "green", "wooded") and is simply transposed into antique names of Arba, Arva, Arbia which are mentioned by the cartographers of the time.

The derivation of the name Albania is of considerable antiquity, dating back perhaps to the pre-Celtic alb (hill), from whence Alps, or possibly from the Indo-European albh (white), from whence albino and Albion. Approximately a millennium after, some Byzantine writers use the words �Albanon� and �Arbanon� to indicate the region of Kruja. Under the Angi�, in the XIII century, the names �Albania �and �Albanenses� indicate the whole country and all the population, as it is demonstrated by the works of many ancient Albanian writers such as Budi, Blanco and Bogdano. We first learn of Albanians in their native land as the Arbanites of Arbanon in Anna Comnenas' account (Alexiad 4) of the troubles in that region caused in the reign of her father Alexius I Comneus (1081- 1118) by the Normans. In �History� written in 1079-1080, Byzantine historian Michael Attaliates was first to refer to the Albanoi as having taken part in a revolt against Constantinople in 1043 and to the Arbanitai as subjects of the duke of Dyrrachium. The Italo-Albanians and the Albanian minorities (still present in Greece) have been called in different ways with the passing of the years: Arb�nuer, Arb�nor, Arb�nesh�, Arbresh�. There seems to be no doubt that the root Alb- or Arb- is earlier than Shqip-, from which the modern name of the state (Shqip�ria) derives, a name which appears only in the time of the Turkish invasions. The Albanian name of the country, Shqip�ria, translates into English as "Land of the Eagles", hence the two-headed bird on the national flag and emblem, and because of the large presence of these animals in the mountainous zones of Albania.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_and_history_of_the_name_ Albania

Russian Kitai corresponds to Engliah 'Cathay', though where they both come from I don't know.

They both come from a Mongolic-speaking nation in northern China called the Kitat, which in the early 10th century became a khanate and by 947 took the Chinese dynastic title of Liao.  The Chinese called them the Khitan, but our "Cathay" ultimately derived from the Arabo-Persian version, Khitai.  In 936 the new Chinese emperor gave them the regions of Tatung and Beijing.  It was conquered by the Tungusic Jurchen between 1114 and 1123.  Thus during the existence of this empire, the term spread westwards, where it was applied to the whole of China. 

Before the Bulgars there were the Huns whose core group bore Turkic names, and whose skeletal remains display physical characteristics which can be traced to Mongolia.  Although there had been several etymologies for the word bulgar , the Turkic meaning of "mixed ones" rather fits their situation.  They were in fact a confederacy of various tribes of various origins. 

Anywhere in the Balkans. Obviously I didn't mean no Turks around anywhere. I didn't think 'Bulgar' was applied to the Bulgars (!) before they arrived in the Balkans. However, after doing some poking around, I accept I'm wrong here.

Correct! Bulgaria means sth like land of a tribe which is formed from many tribes.