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The place type in the list for Scotland records all inhabited areas as City. According to British government definitions, there are only eight Scottish cities; [1] they are Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Inverness, Perth and Stirling. The other locations may be described by such terms as town, burgh, village, hamlet ...
While a number of biblical place names like Jerusalem, Athens, Damascus, Alexandria, Babylon and Rome have been used for centuries, some have changed over the years. Many place names in the Land of Israel, Holy Land and Palestine are Arabised forms of ancient Hebrew and Canaanite place-names used during biblical times [1][2][3] or later Aramaic ...
This is a list of traditional Hebrew place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history (and beliefs) of Canaanite religion, Abrahamic religion and Hebrew culture and the (pre-Modern or directly associated Modern) Hebrew (and intelligible Canaanite) names given to them. Places whose official names include a (Modern) Hebrew form.
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.
A selection of entry changes were selected by BBC News in 2018, and they were: [5] Use Abermo in Welsh for Barmouth, over the two Welsh names Abermaw and Y Bermo. Use Aber-porth over Aberporth in both Welsh and English. Use Dyfnant over Dynfant, in Welsh. Use Penlle'r-gaer over Penllergaer in both Welsh and English.
Umatilla, multiple places named for the Umatilla people. Umpqua, multiple places named for the Umpqua people. Willamette, multiple places from the Clackamas name for the Columbia River. Yachats / Yachats River, uncertain origin. Yamhill, multiple places named for a band of the Kalapuya people.
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types. [1][2][3][4] Toponym is the general term for a proper name of any geographical feature, [5] and full scope of the term also includes proper names of all ...
This is a list of Greek place names as they exist in the Greek language. Places involved in the history of Greek culture, including: Historic Greek regions, including: Ancient Greece, including colonies and contacted peoples. Hellenistic world, including successor states and contacted peoples. Roman Empire and Byzantine Empire, including ...