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 | | For example, C. Mucius, later known as Scaevola, was a Roman hero who sacrificed his right hand in an ancient war. | | | The agnomen might refer to high political office that an ancestor had held, such as Marcus Porcius Cato Censor. | | | Peter Corso could be Publius Corso and his sister would be known as Corsina. |
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http://www.dl.ket.org/latin1/things/romanlife/romannam.htm
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| | Roman |
| | Usages relating to the people and society of Rome | | | Romans is often short for the Epistle to the Romans, one of the books of the New Testament of the Christian Bible. | | | Roman sites in the United Kingdom — any Roman site open to the public. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/R/Roman.htm
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| | Place Names of Alberta, Volume IV, Northern Alberta |
| | Archaeological evidence shows first nations people have been in this part of the world for at least 12,000 years. | | | The third group to have an impact on toponomy was the Roman Catholic missionaries who came primarily from the French order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate. | | | The motives for naming places are primarily directional, and although we tend to name things in predictable fashion, the reasons may be as individual as the person naming them. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/uofc/departments/UP/1-895176/1-895176-59-X.html
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| | Place names and their origins. Antimoon Forum |
| | Otherwise, I find what you have to say very interesting. | | | Connecticut is an Indian name that has been Anglicised. | | | Just thought i would give a bit of information on place names in America and some of their origins. |
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http://www.antimoon.com/forum/2003/2348.htm
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| | Place-names in The Danelaw |
| | This re-naming would sometimes be done by people who were resident outside that particular settlement, as a way of identifying it. | | | In their turn, the Scandinavians also fortified some towns, some of which also acquired one of these elements as part of their name. | | | -TOFT The Scandinavian -toft or -tofts is found in several places in The Danelaw. |
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http://www.viking.no/e/england/danelaw/epl-danelaw.htm
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| | List of Roman place names in Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | This list includes only names documented from Roman times. | | | This page was last modified 16:47, 31 August 2005. | | | Moreover one of the principal authorities, Ptolemy, wrote in Greek so names that he records need to be transliterated back into Latin to reveal the original form. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Roman_place_names_in_Britain
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| | Place-names (from Germanic religion and mythology) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The theophoric place-names of Norway and Sweden are richer and have been carefully sifted. | | | Nonprofit organization dedicated to the study of myths and their effects on culture and society. | | | Theophoric place-names (derived from or compounded with the name of a god) are found in all Germanic lands. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-65398?tocId=65398
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| | Place names |
| | Normally the Luxembourg place names that can be found on the road maps and official modern documents are the French ones. | | | names ending in -ingen/ange, -weiler and -dorf were founded in the early Middle Ages (5th - 9th centuries) | | | Isolated houses, not constituting an agglomeration, have not been consistently considered for this list. |
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http://www.igd-leo.lu/igd-leo/onomastics/villages/villages.html
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| | Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Geography: Place Names |
| | A Political World Gazetteer - An outline of the world's political divisions, organized by continent, nation, national subdivision, and further geographic areas. | | | UNGEGN - United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names. | | | Geographical Names - Cornucopia from the Geography Department of Laurentian University, Ontario including an investigation of the relationship between the author's name, Pitblado, and place names. |
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http://dmoz.org/Science/Social_Sciences/Geography/Place_Names
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| | The Whole Basque Place-Name List |
| | Nevertheless, some basque speaking people living in these places prefere the basque spelling. | | | The names that appear here are those aproved by Euskaltzaindia, the Basque Language Academy, regardless of which is their official name. | | | This is important to declinate the name according to basque grammar, but you don't have to worry about it otherwise. |
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http://www.geocities.com/CollegePark/5062/topo2.html
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| | Place Names |
| | This is an attempt at a list of Roman place names, which is naturally still set to grow. | | | Although it must be a name which I can somehow verify, in order to prevent hoaxers. | | | If you know of any names, - your hometown perhaps, - which is not on this list, then please get in touch by e-mail. |
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http://www.roman-empire.net/diverse/places.html
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| | Those Darn Russian Place Names |
| | In unfortunate reality it could have been named after Молотов, Молотово, Молотовск, Молотовск, or even Молотовка It could also have been named after a landmark such as a canyon or a mountain. | | | If we knew that the hypothetical Молотовская формация were named after the village of Молот we would call it the Molot Formation. | | | As with place names, English has conventional forms for some geographic adjectives. |
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http://www.rmconner.com/transedt/placenam.htm
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| | The American Empire |
| | I know of no mention of China in their deliberations, even though there was an admiration among many for Chinese civilization. | | | The Chinese had no similar "civilized" threat from their neighbors, though, like the Romans, they were beset from time to time by incursions of 'barbarians'". | | | Hank Greely says: "I dislike the comparison between the US today and the Roman Empire, either as a description or as an aspiration, which I think is held by some of those who make it. |
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http://www.stanford.edu/group/wais/USA/us_americanempire11903.html
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| | Mark Moxon, Travel Writer: Cyprus: Place Names in Cyprus |
| | The only place where I use the old version in preference is in the article on Nicosia, because nobody I've met uses the new version, and the internationally accepted name for the city is still Nicosia. | | | In the north, all Greek writing has been obliterated from signposts, and place names have officially been changed to reflect the Turkish occupation of that part of the island. | | | But to make things really confusing, the Cypriot government adopted a new transliteration scheme in 1994 that totally changed the way Cypriot place names are written in the Roman alphabet. |
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http://www.moxon.net/cyprus/place_names_in_cyprus.html
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| | toponymy: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | The name, however, most likely is derived from an older language, such as Pelasgian, which was unknown to those who explained its origin. | | | Toponymy is the taxonomic study of place names, their origins and their meanings. | | | It can be argued that the first toponymists were the storytellers and poets who explained the origin of certain place names in order to elucidate their tales; sometimes place names served as the basis for the legends themselves. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/toponymy
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| | Crieff, Comrie, Auchterarder - Perthshire. Meanings of Place Names |
| | Place names tend to be used long after their meaning is understood by the people who live in an area. | | | The family probably took their name from Drymen in Stirlingshire. | | | From Gaelic, Pictish, British and Scots - A list of meanings of some of the towns, villages and other place names of Strathearn. |
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http://www.strathearn.com/ge/place_names.htm
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| | Korean Language, Etiquette and Dining |
| | Instead they use his title, position, trade, profession, scholastic rank or some honorific form such as "teacher." Parents often are addressed as the equivalent of "Jimmy's mommy" or "Susie's daddy," rather than "Mrs. | | | If at all possible, Koreans avoid calling a person directly by his name. | | | Korean names usually have three parts: the family or surname placed first, and a name identifying the generation, alternating each generation to second or third place with th given personal name. |
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http://lrs.ed.uiuc.edu/students/d-moon1/Kname.html
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| | Place Names in the British Countryside - Countrylovers.co.uk |
| | Generally you will find that place names combine two or three of these as, for example, in Kirkby which means church village. | | | Like every part of the world Britain's place names have a story to tell, and reflect the history of our island. | | | The list below - which is by no means comprehensive - gives some modern prefix and suffixes you will find in Britain's place names. |
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http://www.countrylovers.co.uk/places/placnams.htm
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| | Roman Gask Project |
| | The site facilitates searches for modern or Roman place names, major research topics or annual reports or press releases. | | | You can also search for authors and co-authors of major papers and excavation reports. | | | This description will be used in the table of contents, various indexes and as a subheading on the standalone page banner. |
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http://www.unc.edu/awmc/web-romangaskproject.html
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| | Roman Place Names |
| | The authoritative work on the subject of Romano-British placenames is currently - Rivet, A L F and Smith, Colin, The Place Names of Roman Britain, Batsford, 1979 - but this I believe is long out of print. | | | A quick reference to Romano-British placenames and their modern loci - far from complete, but it might be of some help. | | | In square brackets are the names as they occur in various sources, [Iter= a particular Antonine Itinerary |
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http://www.btinternet.com/~britannica/roname.html
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| | RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Resources for the Rare Materials Cataloger |
| | Arizona State University Library's Place Name Servers--Place name sites for many countries. | | | Roman Numeral Date Conversion Table For the Years A.D. 1400-2000 (years only) | | | RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee Latin Place Names--This contains AACR2 forms when these have been established. |
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http://lib.nmsu.edu/rarecat
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| | KryssTal : London Place Names |
| | This Living Under the Moon Ring is owned by KryssTal : The Origin of London Place Names | | | An essay on the origin and history of the includes a section on the origin of British Place Names. | | | [Writing] [Words and Names] [The World's Most Spken Languages] [UK and USA English] |
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http://www.krysstal.com/londname.html
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| | Mythology-Greek & Roman |
| | Rare Names from Greek Mythology and Roman Mythology | | | A Substantial Portion of Mythological Greek and Roman Names is an Extract from Kids Almanac on Infoplease | | | [Rare Greek and Roman Names from A to D] |
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http://www.nameandfame.org/greek.html
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| | Learn more about List of Roman place names in Britain in the online encyclopedia. |
| | A list of Roman place names in Britain (also includes Ireland, Faeroe Islands, and Iceland.) and their contemporary equivalents. | | | Learn more about List of Roman place names in Britain in the online encyclopedia. | | | Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get. |
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http://www.onlineencyclopedia.org/l/li/list_of_roman_place_names_in_britain.html
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| | Latin names of regions - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch |
| | This is NOT a duplication of Roman provincial names. | | | Here are list of principalities and regions written in the Latin language and English and other names on the right. | | | 1 - Latinized form of a Greek derived name |
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http://encyclopedia.worldsearch.com/latin_names_of_regions.htm
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| | Ancient Names |
| | Under the documentation rules of the SCA, the Bible can be used as a source for names, but a name which can be found in the Bible but not in a book of medieval names is not likely to be reasonably period. | | | This page maintained by Jim Trigg (known in the SCA as Blaise de Cormeilles), | | | Until the SCA has an official start date, books on Roman names will be needed. |
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http://www.s-gabriel.org/docs/ancient.html
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| | The page you are looking for might have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable. | | | Open IIS Help, which is accessible in IIS Manager (inetmgr), and search for topics titled Web Site Setup, Common Administrative Tasks, and About Custom Error Messages. | | | Make sure that the Web site address displayed in the address bar of your browser is spelled and formatted correctly. |
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http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_roman_place_names...
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| | Tasmanian Place Names 3 |
| | And here come some names you're bound to know, because they're all famed for various reasons in their original settings or remind you of something else. | | | Now some rose names - Rose Bay, Rosebery, Rosegarland, Roses Tier, Rosevale, Rosevears, Rosny, Primrose and Primrose Sands. | | | I hasten to add that these places are all *lovely*. |
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http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/tasmania_apple_isle/89964
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| | Drumburgh |
| | I believe Mais, the epigraphically attested form, is British for moss - 'a swamp, a morass, a bog, esp. a peat bog along the Scottish border.' The name Mais 'the moss' is suitable for Drumburgh (NY2659). | | | But, alas, such an etymology does little to seal the assignment. | | | The order of the Rudge Cup, the Amiens patera, and the Ravenna Cosmography follows a sequence along Hadrian's Wall. |
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http://www.romanmap.com/htm/names/Drumburgh.htm
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| | Christianity in England, Irland og Skotland 3rd part |
| | A part of the content of this file is reproduced in Roman - Modern Names | | | Area(s) ruled or controlled by the Romans & its capital | | | Great Roads with English names used for centuries |
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http://www.jmarcussen.dk/historie/Religion/relhist/england3.html
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| | Augustus And The Early Roman Empire |
| | Ancient Navigation and Shipbuilding in the Greek and Roman World | | | Diotima: Materials for the Study of Women and Gender in the Ancient World | | | Ancient Roman Place Names and their Modern Equivalents |
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http://wcw.emory.edu/WorldClasses/rome/research.html
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| | AAcurrent |
| | By R.W. Rennison [These are the now-disappeared bridge over the Pandon Dene, which New Bridge Street is named after; Byker Bridge; and the modern Glasshouse Bridge.] | | | A matter of pegs and labels: a review of some of the prehistoric pottery from the Milfield Basin. | | | Medieval cross slab grave covers in Northumberland, 2: Newcastle and South East Northumberland. |
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http://museums.ncl.ac.uk/Socantiqs/aacurrent.htm
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| | The Roman Empire |
| | Due to requests there is now a format A2 map for sale. | | | A card cut-out Roman legionary helmet to wear ! |
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http://www.roman-empire.net
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| | Find in a Library: The place-names of Roman Britain |
| | Find in a Library: The place-names of Roman Britain | | | WorldCat is provided by OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. on behalf of its member libraries. |
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http://www.worldcatlibraries.org/wcpa/ow/85f5f59716302847.html
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