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Town Name Origin Notes Azure City The Order of the Stick: Fictional capital of a country of the same name, the setting for a large portion of the Webcomic The Order of the Stick. Brigadoon Brigadoon: Brigadoon is a village in the Scottish Highlands, the setting of the musical of the same name. Chako Paul City [23] Chinese press agencies
Imrryr, also known as the Dreaming City and Imrryr the Beautiful, was the capital city of Melniboné for a 10,000-year-old dynasty until the last emperor, Elric of Melniboné, burnt it to the ground. Prior to its destruction, Imrryr had tall towers that shone with many different colors in the light of the sun, and a seaport that was one of the ...
Latin being an inflected language, names in a Latin context may have different word-endings to those shown here, which are given in the nominative case. For instance Roma (Rome) may appear as Romae meaning "at Rome" (), "of Rome" or "to/for Rome" (), as Romam meaning "Rome" as a direct object (), or indeed as Romā with a long a, probably not indicated in the orthography, meaning "by, with or ...
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.
Laistrygon. Home to a tribe of giant cannibals that Odysseus encountered on his way back home from the Trojan War . Meropis. A gigantic island created purely as a parody of Plato 's Atlantis . Mount Olympus. "Olympos" was the name of the home of the Twelve Olympian gods of the ancient Greek world.
Ancient (bracketed) and modern places in the Iberian peninsula which have names containing the Celtic elements -brigā or -bris < -brixs 'hill, hillfort'. The Celtic toponymy of Galicia is the whole of the ancient or modern place, river, or mountain names which were originated inside a Celtic language, and thus have Celtic etymology, and which are or were located inside the limits of modern ...
Khujand. Alexandria the Furthest, Khüjand, Khodzhent, Khudchand, Chodjend, Ispisar, Leninabad, Leninobod. Alexandria on the Indus. at the confluence of the Indus and Chenab rivers, Pakistan, 13 km from modern Uch. abandoned. Uch, Uch Sharif, Alexandria at the Head of the Punjab. Alexandria on the Oxus.
Bikili (s) Decebal's friend (Dio Cassius) [18] Blegissa. Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] Blaesus. Child of a soldier of cohors I Aelia Dacorum [19] Blaikisa. Ostracon of Dacian cavalry recruited after the Roman conquest and stationed in East Egypt [12] Brasus.