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== Namesakes ==
[[File:Raptus Europae.png|thumb|Europa and the bull, depicted as the continent's personification in ''[[:File:Nova et accurata totius Europæ descriptio.jpg|Nova et accurata totius Europæ descriptio]]'' by [[Frederik de Wit|Fredericus de Wit]] (1700)]]

=== Continent ===
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The name [[Europe]], as a geographical term, was used by [[Ancient Greece|Ancient Greek]] geographers such as [[Strabo]] to refer to part of [[Thrace]] below the [[Balkan Mountains]].<ref>Strabo, Geography [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197:book=8:chapter=1:section=1 8.1.1] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081008112916/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0197:book=8:chapter=1:section=1 |date=2008-10-08 }}.</ref> Later, under the Roman Empire the name was given to a Thracian [[Europa (Roman province)|province]]. Thrace or Thraike in Greek mythology, was the sister of a water nymph named Europa.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrace_(mythology) | title=Thrace (Mythology) }}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=April 2023}} Europa was also a surname given to the earth mother goddess Demeter.<ref>[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]], 9.39.4</ref>

It is derived from the [[Greek language|Greek]] word ''Eurōpē'' ({{lang|grc|Εὐρώπη}}) in all [[Romance languages]], [[Germanic languages]], [[Slavic languages]], [[Baltic languages]], [[Celtic languages]], [[Iranian languages]], [[Uralic languages]] ([[Hungarian language|Hungarian]] Európa, [[Finnish language|Finnish]] Eurooppa, [[Estonian language|Estonian]] Euroopa).
[[File:Imago Europae euronis.jpg|thumb|100px|left|Europa depicted on the 2013 ''Europa Series'' of euro banknotes]]
Jürgen Fischer, in ''Oriens-Occidens-Europa''<ref>Jürgen Fischer, ''Oriens–Occidens–Europa'' (Wiesbaden: Steiner) 1957.</ref> summarized how the name came into use, supplanting the ''[[Orient|oriens]]''–''[[Western world|occidens]]'' dichotomy of the [[later Roman Empire]], which was expressive of a divided empire, Latin in the West, Greek in the East.
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In the 8th century, ecclesiastical uses of "Europa" for the imperium of [[Charlemagne]] provide the source for the modern geographical term. The first use of the term ''[[Wikt:Europensis|Europenses]]'', to describe peoples of the Christian, western portion of the continent, appeared in the Hispanic Latin [[Mozarabic Chronicle of 754|Chronicle of 754]], sometimes attributed to an author called [[Isidorus Pacensis|Isidore Pacensis]]<ref>[[David Levering Lewis]], ''God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of Europe, 570 to 1215'', New York: W. W. Norton, 2008.</ref> in reference to the [[Battle of Tours]] fought against Muslim forces.

The European Union has also used Europa as a symbol of [[pan-European identity|pan-Europeanism]], notably by naming [[Europa (web portal)|its web portal]] after her{{citation needed|date=May 2024|reason=and not after the continents name in multiple languages?}} and depicting her on the Greek €2 coin and on several [[Euro gold and silver commemorative coins|gold and silver commemorative coins]] (e.g. the [[Euro gold and silver commemorative coins (Belgium)#2004 coinage|Belgian €10 European Expansion coin]]). Her name appeared on [[postage stamp]]s celebrating the [[Council of Europe]], which were first issued in 1956. The second series of [[euro banknotes]] is known as the Europa Series and bears her likeness in the watermark and hologram.
[[File:Europa - Perijove 45 (53255790801).png|thumb|upright|[[Europa (moon)|Europa]], a moon of [[Jupiter]]]]

==== Chemical element ====
The metal ''[[europium]]'', a [[rare-earth element]], was named in 1901 after the continent.<ref>{{cite web|title=Periodic Table: Europium|publisher=Royal Society of Chemistry|url=https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/63/europium|access-date=2021-11-05|archive-date=2012-01-24|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120124152019/https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/element/63/europium|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Moon of Jupiter ===
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The invention of the [[telescope]] revealed that the planet [[Jupiter]], clearly visible to the naked eye and known to humanity since prehistoric times, has an attendant family of moons. These were named for male and female lovers of the god and other mythological persons associated with him. The smallest of Jupiter's [[Galilean moon]]s was named after Europa.
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