Names of Themiclesia

Names of Themiclesia are terms that have been applied to the current state of Themiclesia, any of its historical predecessors, the territory they occupy, or the people who live on it.

Protohistoric exonyms

In the protohistory of Themiclesia, various terms have been applied to the land that is now Themiclesia.

Endonyms prior to unification

The early Themiclesian states that emerge from the Dark Ages have been described as city states, where all political activity was carried out within an urbanized, defensibe area, the city, but where the surrounding country remained intimately connected with the city through agrarian economics and political spoils. The early state also encompassed permanent and temporary colonies for the extraction of natural resources or agriculture, usually some distance away and directly controlled by leaders of clans for its own benefit. In the contemporary language, there was no term summarizing all these things, a deficiency noted by historians as illuminating of the way early Themiclesians thought of states.

The Shinasthana term, inherited from Proto-Meng, for "city" was ′rep (邑), and many texts from all ages use this word to describe both the physical city itself as well as everything under its control. Oracular divinations about entering (入邑) and leaving the city (出邑) were common from the beginning of the historical period.