Samuel
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>île-de-france
>landlocked region
what did they mean by this
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Halil OzercanDenizli is a city in Turkey and literally means "the one with the sea" in Turkish.
Here is its map
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alyIt’s even stupider when you learn by island they just mean the fertile flood plain of the Seine
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Olivier Simard-CasanovaIt’s an ancestral secret only passed from generation to generation among us, the French
1 5Olivier Simard-CasanovaSo I dove into the rabbit hole and it turns out that even us don’t have a clue about why it’s named like that
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Signez · Stan SignoudEven worse: people living there (like me) are called "franciliens". It isn't confusing at all for foreigners that a name that literally starts with "france" only refers to 1/6 of the country population
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