enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. List of people, clan, and place names in Germanic heroic ...

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people,_clan,_and...

    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.

  3. List of fictional settlements - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_settlements

    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.

  4. List of fictional towns in literature - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_towns_in...

    It is a rural town founded in Douglas County, Wisconsin as a logging settlement in 1887. It was renamed following the 1890 disappearance of founder and storyteller Jackson Sloth and his family, said to have fallen in a sinkhole that no-one can find twice. The town is rich with folktales and paranormal activity, especially around holidays.

  5. Category:Gothic cities and towns - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Gothic_cities_and...

    Pages in category "Gothic cities and towns" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Árheimar; O.

  6. List of tautological place names - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tautological_place...

    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.

  7. How do places get their names? Here are the origins of 22 ...

    www.aol.com/places-names-origins-22-north...

    The town's name comes from the large estate established by the Satterthwaite family in 1844, which was located along the banks of the Passaic River. Oradell. Jun 1, 2024; Haworth, NJ, United ...

  8. List of fictional towns in animation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_towns_in...

    Duck Town is a large town which resembles a city, and a town where SwaySway and Buhdeuce deliver a lot of their bread to. Everybody living in Duck Town is a photorealistic duck. Duck Town is said to contain a bad area called the "Lower Yeast Side" (a spoof of New York City's Lower East Side.) Ducktown Sitting Ducks: Cartoon Network

  9. List of German names for places in the Czech Republic

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_German_names_for...

    Some place names were merely Germanized versions of the original Czech names, as seen e.g. from their etymology. The compromise of 1867 marked a recognition of the need for bilingualism in areas where an important portion of the population used another language; the procedure was imposed by official instructions in 1871. [1]