Not completeley related to the OP's request, but I found an interesting story I have kept in my computer files.
Spain in Greek is
«Ισπανία» [is.paˈni.a] (fem.) which comes for the Latin Hispania (in Koine Greek and in Katharevousa Greek, the initial -I- takes the rough breathing mark (spiritus asper): «
Ἱσπανία»), but there's an alternative (pseudo-)etymology for the origin of the name of Spain.
The pseudepigraphic "Plutarchs' About Rivers, Mountains and things found in them" (book 16: Nile), reads about the origin of the name of Spain:
«Ζεὺς δι' ἐρωτικὴν ἐπιθυμίαν ἐκ Λύκτου πόλεως Κρητικῆς, Ἄργην νύμφην ἁρπάσας ἀπήνεγκεν εἰς ὄρος τῆς Αἰγύπτου, Ἄργιλλον καλούμενον· καὶ ἐγέννησεν ἐξ αὐτῆς υἱὸν, καλούμενον Διόνυσον· ὃς ἀκμάσας εἰς τιμὴν τῆς μητρὸς τὸν λόφον Ἄργιλλον μετωνόμασεν· στρατολογήσας δὲ Πᾶνας καὶ Σατύρους, [τοῖς] ἰδίοις σκήπτροις Ἰνδοὺς ὑπέταξεν· νικήσας δὲ καὶ Ἰβηρίαν, Πᾶνα κατέλιπεν ἐπιμελητὴν τῶν τόπων, ὃς τὴν χώραν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ
Πανίαν μετωνόμασεν· ἣν οἱ μεταγενέστεροι παραγώγως,
Σπανίαν προσηγόρευσαν».
English translation: "Zeus, through an erotic yearning, having abducted the nymph Arge from Lyctus, a Cretan city, carried her off to a mountain of Egypt called Argillus. He produced from her a son called Dionysus, who, when he had grown, in honour of his mother renamed the crest Argillus. When he had mustered pans and satyrs, he subjugated India, and, having conquered Iberia too, he left Pan behind as overseer of the regions. From him, he renamed the territory
Pania, which the later generations by a slight change, named
Spania."
So, when someone wanted to visit the land of the god Pan, Pania, s/he travelled
«Ἐς Πανία» (to Pania) > *Ἐσπανία > Ηispania/España.
A nice fairy tale to put the kids to bed
