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  2. List of river name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    The name may have come from French-Canadian traders and hunters who traveled along the river, or early explorers may have thought that the river flowed into Canada. Chattahoochee : from Creek cato hocce ( IPA: [tʃató hóːtʃːi] ) "marked rock".

  3. List of alternative names for European rivers - Wikipedia

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    Abhainn na Coiribe (English name translated in Irish), Galway River (Irish name translated into English), ... Albula and Rumon (former Latin names), Téivie ...

  4. Rivers of classical antiquity - Wikipedia

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    Following is a list of rivers of classical antiquity stating the Latin name, the equivalent English name, and also, in some cases, Greek and local name. The scope is intended to include, at least, rivers named and known widely in the Roman empire. This includes some rivers beyond the bounds of the Roman empire at its peak.

  5. Elbe - Wikipedia

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    Albis or Albia are old medieval names for the river Elbe. First attested in Latin as Albis, the name Elbe means "river" or "river-bed" and is nothing more than the High German version of a word found elsewhere in Germanic; cf. Old Norse river name Elfr, Swedish älv "river", Norwegian elv "river", Old English river name elf, and Middle Low ...

  6. Tiber - Wikipedia

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    The Tiber (/ ˈ t aɪ b ər / TY-bər; Italian: Tevere; [1] Latin: Tiberis [2]) is the third-longest river in Italy and the longest in Central Italy, rising in the Apennine Mountains in Emilia-Romagna and flowing 406 km (252 mi) through Tuscany, Umbria, and Lazio, where it is joined by the River Aniene, to the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Ostia and ...

  7. Garonne - Wikipedia

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    [12] [13] [14] From Aigualluts to the confluence with the main river at the bed of the upper Garonne valley at 800 metres (2,600 ft) above sea level, the Joèu has run for 12.4 kilometres (7.7 mi) (16 kilometres more to get to the French border), carrying 2.16 cubic metres per second (76 cu ft/s) of water, whilst the main river is carrying 17.7 ...

  8. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    The river was originally named Bakká, "Bank River", and then a farm nearby was named Bakkárholt, "Bank River Hill". The river was then later renamed after the farm as Bakkárholtsá, which translates to "Bank River Hill River" [4] Most river names in the Sundanese portion of Indonesia start with the prefix ci-, which is Sundanese for "river

  9. Rubicon - Wikipedia

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    The Rubicon (Latin: Rubico; Italian: Rubicone [rubiˈkoːne]; [1] Romagnol: Rubicôn [rubiˈkoːŋ]) is a shallow river in northeastern Italy, just south of Cesena and north of Rimini. It was known as Fiumicino until 1933, when it was identified with the ancient river Rubicon, famously crossed by Julius Caesar in 49 BC.