Belur, a city in Karnataka state of India. Indium gets its name from the indigo color seen in its spectrum, the Latin indicum meaning "of India", which makes it indirectly named after India. Americium was named after the Americas. Europium was named after Europe. Berkelium was named after American city Berkeley. Tennessine and Californium were named after American states Tennessee and California respectively. Dubnium and Moscovium were named after Russia's Dubna and Moscow cities. Several places in Scandinavia have elements named after them. Yttrium, terbium, erbium, and ytterbium are all named for the Swedish village of Ytterby, where their ores were first found. Hafnium is named after Hafnia, the Latin name for Copenhagen. Holmium is named after Holmia, Latin for the Swedish capital Stockholm. Scandium comes from the Latin word for Scandinavia. Thulium is from the Ancient Greek word for the remote Arctic land that the Romans called ultima Thule. A number of other elements are named after classical words for various places. Ruthenium is from the Latin name for the region including Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. Lutetium is named after Lutetia, the Latin name for Paris. Copper's name comes from an Old English word derived from the Latin name for the island of Cyprus. The names of both magnesium and manganese derive from the Greek region of Magnesia. Astronomical objects The naming of elements from astronomical objects stems from the ancient association of metals with the various planets and their gods, as follows: mercury with Mercury; copper with Venus; iron with Mars (named for the Roman god of war); tin with Jupiter (named for the Roman king of the gods); and lead with Saturn (named for the ancient, slow god who was the father of Jupiter). The Sun and the Moon were associated with gold and silver, respectively. A few other elements are directly named for astronomical bodies, including planets, dwarf planets, asteroids, the Earth, the Sun, and the Moon. Uranium, neptunium, plutonium, cerium, and palladium were named after Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Ceres, and Pallas, respectively. The name selenium comes from the Greek word for the Moon (Σελήνη, Selene). Similarly, the name helium is derived from the Greek word for the Sun (Ἢλιος, Helios), as the first evidence for helium came in the form of distinctive emission lines from the Sun that were not explainable by any of the known elements in the 1870s. Tellurium is named after the