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>>15148012
Please, explain what you mean by "Politically defined" and also by whom, you very pleasant anon.

I am confident in the accuracy of my description.

The origin story of Scania (Skåne) is not how the term Scandinavia came to be, regardless of how many pop-cultural history books you have read that states that little dinner party fact. While the terms are similar, the region and its nations were described as Scandinavia due to the mountain range. There were no real "politics" involved. There was a cultural, intra-nationalist movement that described it as such and used the name of the mountain range. While a few speakers of the movement of the time (one Dane and two Swedes [on record as far as we can know today, right now]) referred to Pliny the Elder's description of the "Danish"/"Norwegian"/"Swedish" area as Scania, it was clear in multiple documents that the naming suggestion came from the mountain range. No politics involved, tough guy.