Names of Indonesia Oceania and Maritime Southeast Asia. During that era, the East Indies portion now called "Indonesia" fell under Dutch colonial control and therefore was referred to as Dutch East Indies. Insulindia or Insulinde, is an archaic geographical term for Maritime Southeast Asia, encompassing the entire area situated between Australasia and Indochina. More common in Portuguese and Spanish, it is a combined word (portmanteau) from "insula" ("island") and "india" (India). "Indonesia" derives from the Latin and Greek "Indus" (Ἰνδός), and the Greek "nésos" (νῆσος), meaning "island". The name dates to the 18th century, far predating the formation of independent Indonesia. In 1850,
Indian people In early Vedic literature, the term "Āryāvarta" (Sanskrit: आर्यावर्त) was in popular use before "Bhārata". The Manusmṛti (2.22) gives the name "Āryāvarta" to "the tract between the Himalaya and the Vindhya ranges, from the Eastern (Bay of Bengal) to the Western Sea (Arabian Sea)". While the word Indian and India is derived from Greek ("Indía"), via Latin "India". "Indía" in Koine Greek denoted the region beyond the Indus () river, since Herodotus (5th century BC) , "hē Indikē chōrē"; "the Indian land", , "Indos", "an Indian", from Old Persian "Hinduš" and medieval term Hindustani. The name is derived ultimately from