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  2. Hibernia - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. List of Latin place names in Continental Europe, Ireland and ...

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    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includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the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.

  4. List of Latin names of countries - Wikipedia

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    List of Latin names of countries. 6 languages. ... or significant regions, known to the Roman Empire. Latin Name ... Ireland: Hispania [3] Spain: Hungaria: Hungary:

  5. Ireland - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Great Ireland - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. List of Latin place names in Britain - Wikipedia

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    Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place — for example, there were several Roman cities whose names began with Colonia and then a more descriptive term. During the Middle Ages, these were often shortened to just Colonia. One of these, Colonia Agrippinensis, retains the name today in the form of Cologne (from French, German Köln).

  8. List of state and territory name etymologies of the United ...

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    Virginia: 1584: Latin: Virginia 'Country of the Virgin', after Elizabeth I of England, who was known as the "Virgin Queen" because she never married. [103] Washington: February 22, 1872: English: Washington: After George Washington, [104] whose surname was in turn derived from the town of Washington in historic County Durham, England.

  9. Geography of Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The oldest known Irish rock is about 1.7 billion years old and is found on Inishtrahull Island off the north coast of Inishowen [4] [5] and on the mainland at Annagh Head on the Mullet Peninsula. [6] The newer formations are the drumlins and glacial valleys as a result of the last ice age, and the sinkholes and cave formations in the limestone ...