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The name took on popularity with the success of the Irish Patriot Party. At a time when Palladian classical architecture and design were being adopted in northern Europe, Hibernia was a useful word to describe Ireland with overtones of classical style and civility, including by the prosperous Anglo-Irish Ascendancy who were taught Latin at ...
This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era.
List of Latin names of countries. 6 languages. ... or significant regions, known to the Roman Empire. Latin Name ... Ireland: Hispania [3] Spain: Hungaria: Hungary:
The new Anglo-Irish ruling class became known as the Protestant Ascendancy. Half-hanging of suspected United Irishmen. The "Great Frost" struck Ireland and the rest of Europe between December 1739 and September 1741, after a decade of relatively mild winters. The winters destroyed stored crops of potatoes and other staples, and the poor summers ...
Great Ireland (Old Norse: Írland hit mikla or Írland it mikla), also known as White Men's Land (Hvítramannaland) or Land of the White People, [1] and in Latin similarly as Hibernia Major and Albania, was a land said by various Norsemen to be located near Vinland. [2]
Long Island was once a peninsula connected to North America during the great Ice Ages, and includes two large peninsulas at its east end: the South Fork and the North Fork. Cumberland Head Coney Island was an island until it was expanded through land reclamation into the Coney Island Creek , thus becoming a peninsula.
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PlacenamesNI.org, Northern Ireland Place-name Project; Placenames in the North of Ireland, Geography in Action, website for the Northern Ireland Geography Curriculum; The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places Vol.1 (1912 ed.) Vol.2 (1922 ed.) Vol.3 (1922 ed.) by P.W. Joyce, on the Internet Archive