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A city in Florida, whose indigenous-derived early name of Ahapopka means "potato-eating place". Arab: A city in Marshall County, Alabama, pronounced AY-rabb, just as in a popular 1962 American novelty song... Arcade, Italy: A town in Veneto, Italy that has nothing to do with arcade game. Arcade, New York: A village in Wyoming County, New York.
Egypt is home to 20 of the most famous universities in the world and has brought the world many inventions, including the 365-day calendar, the sundial, and makeup to name a few. Related: Unsolved ...
Ibn Battuta, the Berber traveller, visited Jeddah during his world trip. He wrote the name of the city into his diary as "Juddah". The British Foreign Office and other branches of the British government used to use the older spelling of "Jedda", contrary to other English-speaking usage, but in 2007 changed to the spelling "Jeddah".
This is a list of the most common U.S. place names (cities, towns, villages, boroughs and census-designated places [CDP]), with the number of times that name occurs (in parentheses). [1] Some states have more than one occurrence of the same name. Cities with populations over 100,000 are in bold.
This is a list of lists on the cities of present-day nations, states and dependencies. Countries are listed in bold under their respective pages, whereas territories ...
Whether you have found memories of your trip to Italy (hello, Luca or Siena) or simply want a name that has a certain cosmopolitan flair to it, we’ve got you covered with our roundup of city ...
The full name is in both the seal and the flag of the city. The longest names for communes in France are Saint-Remy-en-Bouzemont-Saint-Genest-et-Isson, Marne (45 characters including hyphens), Saint-Germain-de-Tallevende-la-Lande-Vaumont, Calvados (44 characters), and Beaujeu-Saint-Vallier-Pierrejux-et-Quitteur, Haute-Saône (43 characters).
This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States