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Via Verde (literally "Green Lane") is an electronic toll collection system used in Portugal since April 1991. It is available at all toll roads and bridges in the country since 1995. Toll roads and bridges are operated by multiple operators, the main being Brisa - Auto-estradas de Portugal .
Meaning and notes Aguascalientes: Spanish: aguas calientes "Hot waters". When the city was first founded in 1575, it was given this name for the abundance of hot springs in the region, which still are exploited for numerous spas and for domestic use. The state was named after its capital city, Aguascalientes City. Baja California: Spanish ...
From Persian yasmin via Arabic. kan/jan = from Persian khan (خان) meaning "inn", derives from Middle Persian hʾn' (xān, “house”) an honorific title from Turko-Mongol, adapted to Persian; nenúfar: Water-lily. From Persian nilofer, niloofar, niloufar, via Arabic naylufar. roque = rook (chess piece), from Persian رخ rukh via Arabic ...
Spanish Haiti, a former name: Self-descriptive, translated from the Spanish name República del Haití Español chosen upon independence in 1821. The "Spanish" distinguished it from the adjacent French-speaking Haiti. For further etymology of "Haiti", see below.
Ashgabat derives from a folk etymology suggesting that the name is a dialect version of the Persian word of عشق (eshq meaning "love") and Persian آباد (ābād meaning "inhabited place" or "city", etymologically "abode"), and hence loosely translates as "the city of love" or "the city that love built".
An etymological dictionary discusses the etymology of the words listed. Often, large dictionaries, such as the Oxford English Dictionary and Webster's, will contain some etymological information, without aspiring to focus on etymology. [1] Etymological dictionaries are the product of research in historical linguistics. For many words in any ...
Florida Meaning land of flowers, Florida's verdant landscape was discovered by Ponce de León on Easter Sunday. The Pascua Florida holiday in early April commemorates this discovery, during the season when flowers are abundant across Florida. Montana from Latinized Spanish meaning "mountainous", also in Spanish "montaña" is the name of "mountain"
The Ojos Negros Greenway (la Vía Verde de Ojos Negros, in Spanish, also known as la Vía Minera), is a 160-kilometre greenway in Spain running between the village of Santa Eulalia del Campo in the province of Teruel in Aragón and the village of Algimia d'Alfara, in the province of Valencia in the Valencian Community.