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The name for the country Turkey is derived (via Old French Turquie) from the Medieval Latin Turchia, Turquia, from Medieval Greek Τουρκία, itself being Τούρκος (borrowed into Latin as Turcus, 'A Turk, Turkish'). It is first recorded in Middle English (as Turkye, Torke, later Turkie, Turky), attested in Chaucer, c. 1369.
In 1896, Sands, Taylor & Wood introduced a new brand of premium flour. George Wood had attended a performance of the musical King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, which inspired the name of the new product: King Arthur Flour. [6] The brand was introduced at the Boston Food Fair on September 10, 1896, to substantial commercial success. [4]
Bialy — bread roll named after the city of Białystok, Podlaskie; Korycinski cheese — the town of Korycin, Podlaskie '"Krakauer"' or Krakowska — sausage named after the city of Kraków, Lesser Poland; Obwarzanek krakowski — another bread named after Kraków; Paprykarz szczeciński— fish spread named after the city of Szczecin, West ...
AVALON is where King Arthur's sword, Excalibur, was made. The Excalibur Hotel and CASINO in Las Vegas, Nevada is named after King Arthur's sword, and has a medieval castle theme. MANE (26A: Lion's ...
A baker mixed flour and water into dough, shaped the spongy substance into a ball, and left the uncooked loaf near an oven. That was over 8,000 years ago.
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The country which was initially called (County of the) Ardennes named itself after its homonym capital city founded in 963. From Celtic Lucilem "small", German lützel , OHG luc(c)il , luz(z)il (cognate to English "little") and Germanic Burg : "castle" or "fortress", thus Lucilemburg : "little castle" or "little fortress".
Place name changes in Turkey have been undertaken, periodically, in bulk from 1913 to the present by successive Turkish governments. Thousands of names within the Turkish Republic or its predecessor the Ottoman Empire have been changed from their popular or historic alternatives in favour of recognizably Turkish names, as part of Turkification ...