anatopism

Etymology
From and ; apparently by analogy with anachronism.

Noun

 * 1)  A thing that is out of its proper place; the geographic counterpart to anachronism.
 * A war elephant described rampaging through Tenochtitlan in a novel about the Aztec Empire would be an anatopism.
 * 1) * 1836: Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge, Esq., M. A., ed, The Literary Remains of Samuel Taylor Coleridge:
 * and can find no associates in size at a less distance than two centuries; and in arranging which the puzzled librarian must commit an anachronism in order to avoid an anatopism.

Translations

 * Hungarian:
 * Portuguese: anatopismo