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  2. List of Latin names of cities - Wikipedia

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    Little is known about how Romans adapted foreign place names to Latin form, but there is evidence of the practices of Bible translators.They reworked some names into Latin or Greek shapes; in one version, Yerushalem (tentative reconstruction of a more ancient Hebrew version of the name) becomes Hierosolyma, doubtlessly influenced by Greek ἱερος (hieros), "holy".

  3. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    Name of a few places in Mexico as well as a municipality in Spain. "Matamoros" translates to "killer of Moors" in Spanish. Matanzas: Name of a handful of places. The name means "massacre" or "slaughter" in Spanish. Maton Abajo: A barrio in Cayey, Puerto Rico, next to Maton Arriba. Maton means killer in Spanish and arriba and abajo mean up and ...

  4. Place names considered unusual - Wikipedia

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    Fucking, Austria.The village was renamed on 1 January 2021 to "Fugging" [1] Hell, Norway.The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including ...

  5. List of city nicknames in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Reno, Nevada proudly displays its nickname as "The Biggest Little City in the World" on a large sign above a downtown street.. This partial list of city nicknames in the United States compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities are known by (or have been known by historically), officially and unofficially, to municipal governments, local people, outsiders or their tourism boards ...

  6. List of place names of Native American origin in the United ...

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    Anacostia – from the Piscataway name Anakwashtank, meaning 'a place of traders'. [35] Originally the name of a village of the Piscataway tribe on the Anacostia River. Also rendered as Nacochtank or Nacostine. Takoma – originally the name of Mount Rainier, from Lushootseed [təqʷúbəʔ] (earlier *təqʷúməʔ), 'snow-covered mountain'. [36]

  7. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

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    The following is a list of place names often used tautologically, plus the languages from which the non-English name elements have come. Tautological place names are systematically generated in languages such as English and Russian, where the type of the feature is systematically added to a name regardless of whether it contains it already.

  8. List of Latin place names used as specific names - Wikipedia

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    The name Heliconia indica invokes two locations: Heliconia refers to Mount Helicon, [1] and indica means 'from India'. [2] A list of place names, used in Latin descriptions and, after the development of binomial nomenclature, as specific names in the natural sciences.

  9. List of city and town nicknames in the United Kingdom

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    "Gunchester" – name attached to the city by media in the 1990s because of the high incidence of gun crime in south Manchester. [130] [131] "Madchester" [132] – the name arising from a musical scene in the city in the late 1980s and early 1990s; and which has been attributed to Shaun Ryder, of the Happy Mondays [133] "Manc" - abbreviation of ...