Latin names of European cities - Latin names of European cities Until the Modern Era, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking. During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde. These studies have, in turn, contributed to the study of Genealogy. For genealogists and historians of pre-Modern Europe, knowing alternate names of places is vital to extracting information from both public and private records. Even specialists in this field point out, however, that the information can be easily taken out of context, since there is a great deal of repetition of place-names throughout Europe; reliance purely on apparent connections should therefore be tempered with valid historical methodology. One caveat that must be observed, however, is.
Latin names of European rivers - Latin names of European rivers Following is a list of rivers stating the Latin and equivalent English name. Latin English, (other) and older names Achelous¹ Achelous/Acheloos Albis Elbe (Labe, Łaba) Alpheus¹ Alpheus River (Alfeiós/Alpheiós, Vardar) Alutus Olt Anisus Enns Borysthenes Dnieper (Dniepr) Cephissus¹ (Athenae) Cephissus River (Athens) (Kephissós, Kifissós) Cephissus¹ (Boeotia) Cephissus River (Boeotia) Cephissus¹ (Eleusis) Cephissus River (Eleusis) Colapis Kolpa (Kupa) Crisus Criş Danuvius Upper Danube (Donau, Donava, Dunărea) Dierna Cerna Durius Douro (Duero) Dravus Drave (Drau, Drava, Dráva) Garumna Garonne Hierasus Siret Hypanis Boh Iberus Ebre (Ebro) Ister Lower Danube (Donau, Donava, Dunărea) Korkoras Krka Ligara, Ligera Loire Maris Mureş Matrona Marne Moenus Main Natiso Natisone Natissis Noteć Oenus Inn Ordessos Argeş Peneus¹ (Elea) Peneus River (Elia) (Pineiós/Peneós) Peneus¹ (Tempe) Peneus River (Tempe) (Pineiós/Peneiós).
Latin names of cities - Latin names of cities Users of Neo-Latin have taken the Latin language to places the Romans never went; hence a need arose to make Latin names of cities that did not exist when Latin was a living language. The first places that needed Latin names were encountered by Bible translators, who had a need to figure out what to call the many place names in the Bible in Latin. They either reworked the place names into Latin or Greek shapes; in one version, Jerusalem becomes Hierosolyma. Or, they adopted them directly, often treating the new place names as indeclinable nouns; here Jerusalem is brought over as Ierusalem. Similar strategies are used with United States and North America and other place names that Latin writers needed to.
List of European cities with alternative names - List of European cities with alternative names Most cities in Europe have alternative names in different languages. Some cities have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons. This article attempts to give all known alternative names for all major European cities. It also includes some smaller towns that are important because of their location or history. For the purposes of this article, Europe includes Turkey, Cyprus and all the republics of the former Soviet Union. This article does not offer any opinion about what the "original", "official," "real" or "correct" name of any city is or was. Cities are listed alphabetically by their current best-known name in English. The English version is followed by variants in other languages, in alphabetical order by language, and then.
Latin names of regions - Latin names of regions Here are list of principalities and regions written in the Latin language and English and other names on the right. This is NOT a duplication of Roman provincial names. cty. - county dept. - department dist. - district isl. -island kdom. - kingdom pen - peninsula pref. - prefecture prin. - principality prphy. - periphery prov. - province reg. - region state - state Latin English name(s) [other name(s)] or [older name(s)] of Subdivisions Acarnania¹ Acarnania (fmr dept?, dist.) Aemilia et Romania Emilia-Romagna Aetolia¹ Aetolia (fmr. dept.?, dist.) Aetoloacarnania¹ Aetoloacarnania, Aitolio-Akarnania (pref.) Africa Australis South Africa Amazon (state) Amazonas, most pref. Amazon (state) Apulia Apulia, Puglia Arcadia¹ Arcadia (pref.), Greece Argolis¹ Argolis, Argolida (pref.), Greece Australia Borealis South Australia Australia Occidentalis Western.
Latin names of mountains - Latin names of mountains Mountains like Hymettus have a Latinized Greek origin Hymettos. Here are a list of mountains that are found in the Latin language. Latin English name, [other name(s)], [older name(s)], [state/province/region], [nation or state], [continent] Aegaleus¹ Mount Aegaleus, Piraeus, Greece Aenos Mount Ainos, Kefallinia/Cephallonia, Greece Aetna¹ Mount Etna, Sicily Alpis (ranges) Alps, France to Austria Alpis Australia? Australian Alps, New South Wales Andes (ranges) Andes, Chile to Colombia Aroania¹ Mount Aroania/Chelmos, Greece Atlas¹ (ranges) Atlas Mountains, NW Africa Caucasus Caucasus mountains, Georgia to Azerbaijan Cyllene¹ Mount Cyllene, Kylléne Dalmatia (Alpis) Dalmatian Mountains, Damlatia, S Croatia, West Balkans Dirphys¹ Mount Dirphys, Greece Elbrus Mount Elbrus, Caucasus Erymanthus¹ Mount Erymanthus (Olonos) Helicon¹ Mount Helicon, Greece Hymettus¹ Mount Hymettus, Greece Minthe¹ Mount Minthe, Elia, Greece Oenoe¹.
Latin names of islands - Latin names of islands Here are some listings of islands in Latin, and English on the right. Latin [English], [other name], [older name], [island chain/region], [state/nation] Aegina Aegina, Greece (Aigina) Insulis Aeolium? Aeolian Islands Amorgos Amorgos, Aegean, Greece Andros¹ Andros Anticosti Ile d'Anticosti, Quebec Anticythera¹ Anticythera, Cythera, Greece Antipoda¹ Antipodes Insula Australis? South Island, New Zealand Balearica Balearic Islands Insula Borealis? North Island, New Zealand Britannia Britain Calymnus¹, Calymnos¹ Kalymnos, Dodecanese, Aegean, Greece Canaris Insula Canary Islands Carpathos¹ Carpathos, Dodecanese, Greece Cassos¹ Cassos, Dodecanese, Greece Cauda? Cauda (Gauda/Gaf(v)da), Greece Cephallenia¹ Kefallinia, Cephallonia Corcyra Corfu, Ionian, Greece (Kerkyra) Corsica Corsica Cos¹ Cos, Dodecanese, Aegean, Greece Creta Crete (Kriti/Krete) Cuba Cuba Cyclades Ins. Cyclades Cyprus Cyprus (Kypros) Cynthos¹ Cynthos, Cyclades, Aegean, Greece Cythera¹ Cythera, Kythera, Greece Delos¹ Delos,.
Roman place names - Roman place names Provincial place names in the Roman Empire: Roman Name Current Name Achaea Greece, except Epirus, Acarnania and Thessaly Africa Tunisia Aegyptus Egypt Albion England Anatolia Turkey East Arabia Sinai peninsula and Arabian peninsula Armenia Armenia Asia Turkey West Baetica Spain South Belgica Belgium Brittania England Bythnia Turkey North West Caledonia Scotland Cambria Wales Cilicia Turkey South East Cyprus Cyprus Cyrenaica Libya East Dacia Romania, Moldova Dalmatia Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina West Galatia Turkey Central Gaul France Germania Germany Helvetia Switzerland Hibernia Ireland Illyricum Bosnia and Herzegovina South, Yugoslavia South West, Albania North West Italia Mainland Italy Judea Israel Lusitania Portugal Mauretania Morocco Moesia Yugoslavia (Serbia), Bulgaria Noricum mainly Austria South and Slovenia North Pannonia Hungary, Croatia North, Slovenia North East Pontus Turkey North East Raetia.
Latin - Latin Alternate meanings: See Latin (disambiguation) Latin was the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. It gained great importance as the formal language of the Roman Empire. All Romance languages descend from a Latin parent, and many words based on Latin are found in other modern languages such as English. Moreover, in the Western world, Latin was a lingua franca, the learned language for scientific and political affairs, for more than a thousand years, being eventually replaced by French in the 18th century and English in the late 19th. It remains the formal language of the Roman Catholic Church to this day, which includes being the official national language of the Vatican. It is also still used to furnish the names used.
List of Roman place names in Britain - List of Roman place names in Britain A list of Roman place names in Britain (also includes Ireland, Faeroe Islands, and Iceland.) and their contemporary equivalents. Region/state names Latin English name [other name] Caledonia Scotland Cambria Wales Hibernia Ireland City names Latin English names, [other name] Aquae Sulis Bath Ardotalia Gamesley, Glossop. Derbyshire Calcaria Tadcaster,North Yorkshire Calleva Silchester Camulodunum Colchester Cantabria Cambridge Corinium Cirencester Corstopitum Corbridge Deva Chester Dubris Dover Dunelm Durham Durocobrivis Dunstable Durocornovium Swindon Durovernum Cantiacorum Canterbury Eboracum York Garrianonum Burgh Castle Glevum Colonia Gloucester Halifacium, Hortonium Halifax Isca Exeter Isca Silurium Caerleon Lactodorum Towcester Lindum Colonia Lincoln Londinium London Mamucium Manchester Mediolanum Whitchurch, Shropshire Noviomagus Chichester Oxonia Oxford Ratae Coritanorum Leicester Segontium Caernarfon Venta Belgarum Winchester Verulamium St Albans Viroconium Wroxeter, Shropshire Vindolanda Chesterholm partial list.
Kievan Rus' - Viking and Slavic, warriors subdued the various Eastern Slavic tribes. In 907, he led an attack against Constantinople, and in 911 he signed a commercial treaty with the Byzantine Empire as an equal partner. The new Slavic Kievan state prospered because it controlled the trade route from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea and because it had an abundant supply of furs, wax, honey, and slaves for export. Historians have debated the role of the Varangians in the establishment of Kievan Rus'. Some Russian historians have stressed the Slavic influence in the development of the state. Although Slavic tribes had formed their own regional jurisdictions by 860, the Varangians initiated Kievan Rus' which was named after them (Rus' is etymologically identical to the Finnish and Estonian names for Sweden: Ruotsi.
History of Turkey - Reforms 2 Politics in the era of Kemal 3 After Atatürk 4 1990s Atatürk's Reforms On March 3, 1924, the National Assembly abolished the ministry of sacred law, all schools were placed under the ministry of education and a new constitution was approved on April 20, 1924. For the next 10 years, there was a steady process of secular westernization, guided by Mustafa Kemal. Some of the reforms: Latin alphabet replaces Arabic script. May 24, 1928 (?) The wearing of a fez, a traditional Muslim hat, is outlawed. All people are required to adopt family names. The family names are selected from a list of "approved" ethnically Turkish names and become hereditary. Mustafa Kemal himself is given the name Atatürk (Father Turk) and all others are banned from using this name..
History of Africa - and update as required. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Origins of the Name 2 Prehistory 3 Neolithic North Africa and Phoenician and Greek colonization 4 Islamic North Africa 5 Sub-Saharan Africa: Medieval empires 6 European exploration and conquest 6.1 Portuguese 6.2 19th Century European explorers 6.3 Partition among European Powers 6.4 Conflicting ambitions of the European powers 6.5 The Berlin Conference of 1884-85 7 Africa at the start of the 20th century 8 Africa Between the World Wars 9 World War II Era 10 1940s - 1990s 11 History of African Nations 11.6 Central Africa 11.7 Eastern Africa 11.8 Northern Africa 11.9 Southern Africa 11.10 Western Africa Origins of the Name The name Africa came into European use through the Romans, who administered as the province of Africa the territory formerly.
Gentleman - Gentleman The term gentleman (from Latin gentilis (belonging to a race or gens) and "man", cognate with the French word gentilhomme, the Spanish gentil hombre, and the Italian gentil huomo), in its original and strict signification, denoted a man of good family, the Latin generosus (its invariable translation in English-Latin documents). In this sense the word equates with the French gentilhomme (nobleman), which latter term was in Great Britain long confined to the peerage. The term gentry (from the Old French genterise for gentelise) has much of the significance of the French noblesse or of the German Adel. This was what the rebels under John Ball in the 14th century meant when they repeated: When Adam delved and Eve span, Who was then the gentleman? John Selden in Titles.
American roots music - served as the basis of music later developed in the United States, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and jazz. This article is the first in the Music of the United States series. '''American roots music: Native American, European and African melting pot''' 1940s and 50s 1960s and 70s 1980s to the present African-American music Native American music Latin, Tejano, Hawaiian, Cajun, Puerto Rican and other immigrants Roots musical forms reached their most expressive and varied forms in the first two to three decades of the 20th century. The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl were extremely important in disseminating these musical styles to the rest of the country, as Delta blues masters, itinerant honky tonk singers and Latino and Cajun musicians spread to cities like Chicago, Los Angeles and.
Augusta - Augusta County, Virginia, United States of America Other meanings: Augusta (plant) Augusta, derived from Augustus the emperor, is also in the Latin names of some ancient towns: Augusta Perusia: Perugia Augusta Praetoria Salassorum: Aosta, Italy Augusta Taurinorum: Turin, Italy Augusta Treverorum: Trier, Germany Augusta Vindelicorum Augsburg, Germany Augusta Raurica: Kaiseraugst (Augst), Switzerland See also: Latin names of European cities The Italian helicopter manufacturer, that has developed commercial links with both Bell in the USA and Westlands of England, is instead called Agusta. This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page..
Bernard of Clairvaux - Citeaux, however, Clairvaux soon became the most important Cistercian house, owing to the fame and influence of Bernard. His saintly character, his self mortification-- of so severe a character that his friend, William of Champeaux, bishop of Châlons, thought it right to remonstrate with him-- and above all, his marvelous power as a preacher, soon made him famous, and drew crowds of pilgrims to Clairvaux. His miracles were noised abroad, and sick folk were brought from near and far to be healed by his touch. Before long the abbot, who had intended to devote his life to the work of his monastery, was drawn into the affairs of the great world. When in 1124 Pope Honorius II mounted the chair of St Peter, Bernard was already reckoned among the greatest of.
Castle - refers to the Rook chess piece, and the chess move castling. The Castle (from the Latin castellum, diminutive of castra), is a fort, a camp and the logical development of a Fortified enclosure. However a number of large Chateau-like mansions are also called castles. A castle is a small self-contained fortress, usually of the middle ages, though the term is sometimes used of prehistoric earthworks (e.g. Hollingbury Castle, Maiden Castle), and sometimes of citadels (like the castles of Badajoz and Burgos) or small detached forts d'arrêt in modern times. It is also often applied to the principal mansion of a prince or nobleman, and in France (as chateau) to any country seat, this use being a relic of the feudal age. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Medieval European castles 1.1 Influence.
Chicago, Illinois - of rotting marshland onions that used to cover it. Four ships called the USS Chicago were named after the city by the U.S. Navy. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 1.1 Important Historical Events 1.2 Important Citizens or people born here 1.3 Nicknames 2 Geography 2.4 Major Neighborhoods & Areas 2.5 See Also 3 Demographics 4 Government 4.6 City Departments 4.7 Municipal Flag of Chicago 4.8 Sister Cities 4.9 See Also 5 Communications & Media 5.10 Broadcast Television Stations 5.11 Radio Stations 5.12 Newspapers 5.13 Community Newspapers 5.14 Business, Legal, Entertainment and Other Local Periodicals 6 Arts & Culture 6.15 Novels set in Chicago 6.16 Musicals set in Chicago 6.17 Movies & TV Shows set in Chicago 7 Famous Attractions, Landmarks & Areas of Interest 8 Colleges & Universities 9 Business.
Club - other article subjects named club see club (disambiguation). A club (in Greek usually: Mupia, in Latin sodalitas) consists of an association of people not united together by any natural ties of kinship, real or supposed. For modern clubs see below. This article begins with an account of Greek and Roman clubs. Such clubs occur in all ancient states of which we have any detailed knowledge, and seem to have dated in one form or another from a very early period. One may reasonably suppose, in the absence of certain information, that the rigid system of groups of kin, i.e. family, gens, phratria, etc., affording no principle of association beyond the maintenance of society as it then existed, may itself have suggested the formation of groups of a more elastic and expansive.
