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Satsuma Province

31.7586°N 130.4800°E · Q667475

One English word in this atlas traces back to Satsuma Province. It sits in Japan.

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satsumanoun · 19th century
Well attested

The orange is named for a former Japanese province.

Satsuma was a province in southern Kyūshū, abolished in the 1870s. The fruit reached the West under the old provincial name and kept it.

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