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Why Do So Many Countries End in “-stan”?

mentalflossr:

Who put the bomp in the bomp bah bomp bah bomp? Who put the -stan in Afghanistan? I don’t know about the former, but we can thank the Proto-Indo-Europeans for the latter.

— 8 months ago with 49 notes
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    I have always wondered this. Now I know why.
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    Lol this reminded me of the flag quiz my college friends and I spent one whole weekend evening on.
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