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There is a reference in Gildas to Caer Grawnt indicating an earlier Brythonic origin. The name of the city became Cambridge due to the Norman influence within the city in the 12th century. The name of the river Cam within Cambridge is a backwards derivation. Cheshire: CH Ancient Old English: Legeceasterscīr, later Ceasterscīr [1] Shire of ...
The county has formed the upper tier of local government over much of the United Kingdom at one time or another, [1] and has been used for a variety of other purposes, such as for Lord Lieutenants, land registration and postal delivery. This list of 184 counties is split by constituent country, time period and purpose.
Chapman codes have no mapping, postal or administrative use. They can however be useful for disambiguation by postal services where a full county name or traditional abbreviation is not supplied after a place name which has more than one occurrence, a particular problem where these are post towns such as Richmond.
Where an adjective is a link, the link is to the language or dialect of the same name. (Reference: Ethnologue, Languages of the World) Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms refer also to various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words. (Sometimes, the use of one or more additional words is optional.)
The smallest county (Dickinson) has a land area of 381 sq mi (990 km 2), while the largest (Kossuth) has an area 973 sq mi (2,520 km 2). Polk County is the most densely populated county at 864/sq mi (333.5/km 2), an increase in density from 2010 when it was 655.5/sq mi (253.08/km 2). [7]
Keokuk County – named after the Sauk chief Keokuk. City of Keokuk; Mahaska County; Muscatine County; Osceola County – named after the Seminole leader Osceola. City of Osceola; Pocahontas County; Pottawattamie County; Poweshiek County; Sac County – named after the Sac/Sauk and Fox people. City of Sac City, Iowa; Sioux County – named ...
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He helped search for Hurricane Katrina victims in 2005. As a puppy, Jake was abandoned with a broken leg and dislocated hip, but as an adult became one of fewer than 200 U.S. government-certified rescue dogs, and described by a member of the 9/11 Federal search and rescue teams as "a world class rescue dog".