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This is a list of fictional settlements, including fictional towns, villages, and cities, organized by each city's medium.This list should include only well-referenced, notable examples of fictional towns, cities, settlements and villages that are integral to a work of fiction and substantively depicted therein.
Modernized name Names in medieval languages Name meaning and/or identification Notes Hald (North and South) Old English: Hæleþan: The Hæleþan were a people mentioned in Widsith, line 81. The name Halla herred is attested in the Doomesday book of Valdemar II of Denmark for an area at the Randers Fjord in north Jutland.
The female warrior samurai Hangaku Gozen in a woodblock print by Yoshitoshi (c. 1885). The peasant Joan of Arc (Jeanne d'Arc) led the French army to important victories in the Hundred Years' War. The only direct portrait of Joan of Arc has not survived; this artist's interpretation was painted between AD 1450 and 1500.
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Name Description Aaru: The heavenly paradise often referred to as the Field Of Reeds, is an underworld realm where Osiris rules in ancient Egyptian mythology. Akhet: An Egyptian hieroglyph that represents the sun rising over a mountain. It is translated as "horizon" or "the place in the sky where the sun rises". [1] Benben
In the novel Death on the Nile, Malton-under-Wode is a country village. Located in the village is the estate Wode Hall, previously owned by Sir George Wode. He sold it to the rich heiress Linnet Ridgeway, due to financial difficulties. Manawaka, Manitoba: Margaret Laurence: The Stone Angel: The town is also used in Daniel Poliquin's novel L ...
The town itself is based on the census-designated place of Hanapepe, Hawai’i along the southern shores of the real life Kauai. [5] Konohagakure, Land of Fire Naruto: TV Tokyo: Literally Village Hidden by Tree Leaves. A fictional village where kids learned to be ninjas, and instead of a president, mayor, etc., there is a hokage. L ; Lake ...
The world in which Final Fantasy X and Final Fantasy X-2 take place. Final Fantasy X: 2001: V Temerant: Patrick Rothfuss: The setting for The Name of the Wind and The Wise Man's Fear. The Name of the Wind: 2007: N Tékumel: M. A. R. Barker: A technological world is suddenly cast into a "pocket dimension".