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English
Etymology
From Europe + Asia.
Proper noun
Europasia
- Synonym of Eurasia
1884 April 10, “Belfast Naturalists’ Field Club”, in The Belfast News-Letter, year CXLVII, number 21,443, Belfast, page 8, column 3:In conclusion, Mr. Gardner said—I think we may assume that the old land upon which this flora grew formed a part of the continent of Europasia as it existed in eocene times, and, further, that it formed or was not distant from its western coast line.
1887, Elias Loomis, Contributions to Meteorology. Areas of high pressure. Their magnitude and direction of movement. Relation of areas of high pressure to areas of low pressure., page 14:The long duration of areas of high pressure over Europasia appears to be due to the favorable conditions for the formation of such areas which prevail in this part of the world during the winter months. During this period, areas of low pressure of extreme violence prevail almost uninterruptedly over the Atlantic Ocean, and the air which here ascends moves eastward and settles down over Europasia.
1928, “an English Europasian”, “The Races”, in Russia in Resurrection: A Summary of the Views and of the Aims of a New Party in Russia, London: George Routledge & Sons, Ltd., page 18:The Great, Little and White Russians still occupy their original sites about the Moskva, the Dnieper and the Pripet, respectively numbering some 56,000,000, 22,000,000, and 6,000,000, the Great Russians predominating and mingling with the other races all over Europasia.
2016, James T. Carson, “Who Was First and When?: The Diasporic Implications of Indigeneity”, in Amitava Chowdhury, Donald Harman Akenson, editors, Between Dispersion and Belonging: Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice, McGill-Queen’s University Press, →ISBN, page 112:Over two million years a species of archaic human we know as Homo erectus emerged and left its African homeland in one or more waves to search farther afield. They spread across much of what we know now as Europasia where they formed small hunting and gathering societies that moved with the seasons to exploit different floral and faunal resources.