Home›Nonfiction and Documentary Prose›Place of OriginBrowse ByPlace of OriginPlace of origin names where a genre was first written. Wikipedia records that "the first work to be labelled as Gothic was Horace Walpole's 1764 novel The Castle of Otranto," a single English novel that gave an entire genre its name. This dimension shows which places have given the world their own genres of writing.Place of OriginComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)Place of OriginFilter Results10 entriesArea (sq km)All132,049 (1)186,447 (1)242,500 (1)377,975 (1)3,287,263 (1)9,572,900 (1)9,866,632 (1)20,111,457 (1)Dissolution or End YearAll1453 (1)Independence or Founding YearAll395 (1)1776 (1)1801 (1)1832 (1)1947 (1)1949 (1)PopulationAll9,267,000 (1)15,431,980 (1)17,000,000 (1)69,414,000 (1)122,587,000 (1)340,587,000 (1)656,098,097 (1)1,210,854,977 (1)1,407,698,000 (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 10Byzantine EmpirePlace of Origin1 entryChinaPlace of Origin1 entryGreecePlace of Origin4 entriesIndiaPlace of Origin1 entryJapanPlace of Origin1 entryLatin AmericaPlace of Origin2 entriesMesopotamiaPlace of Origin1 entryNew EnglandPlace of Origin1 entryUnited KingdomPlace of Origin4 entriesUnited StatesPlace of Origin5 entriesComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.