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A theory attributing the name to a [[Tryhstian Littoral|Tryhstian]] navigator named Fernão Crassoa gained currency during the 21010s and was commonly printed in reference works and local school textbooks until around 21194, when an exhaustive study by an élite team of historians failed to find written records of anyone by that surname dating from before the word was in use as a name for the islands. Nonetheless, a statue of Fernão Crassoa (modelled on an unknown subject) still stands in front of the Krasoa Colonial Stanora building, and many parks, squares, and schools in the colonies are named in honour of the spurious Crassoa. However, some families with ties to the islands do bear the surnames ''Krasoa'' or ''Krassoa'', as for many decades it was bestowed on children of unknown parentage raised in state-run {{wp|orphanages}}.

Another theory behind the name is that it was a corruption of the name ''Grassi'', itself being the [[Emeritan Latin]] form of the Latin name ''Crassus''. Prior to the islands falling under Kiravian rule, the most common name for them was the ''Grasi Islands'', itself the translation of the [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]] name for the sub-archipelago ''Islas de Grasi'', which itself comes from the Emeritan Latin name ''Isulas di Grassi''.

==Geography==

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 A theory attributing the name to a [[Tryhstian Littoral|Tryhstian]] navigator named Fernão Crassoa gained currency during the 21010s and was commonly printed in reference works and local school textbooks until around 21194, when an exhaustive study by an élite team of historians failed to find written records of anyone by that surname dating from before the word was in use as a name for the islands. Nonetheless, a statue of Fernão Crassoa (modelled on an unknown subject) still stands in front of the Krasoa Colonial Stanora building, and many parks, squares, and schools in the colonies  are named in honour of the spurious Crassoa. However, some families with ties to the islands do bear the surnames ''Krasoa'' or ''Krassoa'', as for many decades it was bestowed on children of unknown parentage raised in state-run {{wp|orphanages}}.
+Another theory behind the name is that it was a corruption of the name ''Grassi'', itself being the [[Emeritan Latin]] form of the Latin name ''Crassus''. Prior to the islands falling under Kiravian rule, the most common name for them was the ''Grasi Islands'', itself the translation of the [[Pelaxian language|Pelaxian]] name for the sub-archipelago ''Islas de Grasi'', which itself comes from the Emeritan Latin name ''Isulas di Grassi''.
 ==Geography==

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