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Rome: the eternal city Florence: cradle of Renaissance Venice: the Most Serene Milan: the Fashion capital Naples: city of Parthenope Bologna: the learned. the fat, and the red Pisa: the glorious. Agrigento: la città dei templi (The city of temples) [2] Alatri: la Città dei Ciclopi (the City of Cyclopes) [3] Anagni: la città dei papi (The ...
It has been among the too 100 names for newborn girls in New South Wales, Australia since 2016 and among the top 50 names since 2019. [10] Florence was the 30th most popular name for newborn girls in Canada in 2021 and the fourth most popular name given to baby girls in French speaking Quebec, Canada in 2021 [11] [12] It dropped to 35th in ...
Other sources of foreign names transferred to the U.S. are the Bible and ancient history. Biblically sourced names are widespread and are sometimes the result of naming a settlement after its church. Names from ancient history can also be found in a number of places, although a concentration of them can be found in upstate New York.
Not all Irish given names have English equivalents, though most names have an anglicised form. Some Irish names have false cognates, i.e. names that look similar but are not etymologically related, e.g. Áine is commonly accepted as the Irish equivalent of the etymologically unrelated names Anna and Anne.
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Florence (given name), a given name (including a list of people with the name) Drayton Florence (born 1980), American football player; Franklin Florence (1934-2023), American civil rights activist; Gillian Florence, Canadian rugby union player; Hércules Florence (1804–1879), French/Brazilian artist and inventor of photography
Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name. Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms also refer to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. Additionally, sometimes the use of one or more additional words is optional.
However, if colloquial usage does differ, we should prefer actual American usage to the official name. Similarly, its GEOnet server normally presents local official usage in the country concerned (for example, Frankfurt am Main); in a handful of cases, like Florence, it has a conventional name field.