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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 names of countries - Wikipedia

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includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the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

  5. List of Latin names of regions - Wikipedia

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    Latin English name(s) [other name(s)] or [older name(s)] of subdivisions Alandia: Åland: Alberta: Alberta (prov.) Amazon (state) Amazonas, most pref. Amazon Angermannia: Ångermanland, Sweden Apulia: Apulia (Puglia) Arcadia: Arcadia (pref.), Greece Argolis: Argolis, Argolida (pref.), Greece Australia Australis: South Australia: Australia ...

  6. List of alternative country names - Wikipedia

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    Ireland (official, English), Éire (official Irish name), Irish Free State (1922–1937), Poblacht na hÉireann (official Irish description), Republic of Ireland (official English description), Saorstát Éireann (Irish 1922–1937), Erin, Banba, Fodla (three poetic names), Hibernia (Latin name, also poetic, often used in adjectives and ...

  7. List of Latin names of cities - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  8. Place names in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    The name of Ireland itself comes from the Irish name Éire, added to the Germanic word land. In mythology, Éire was an Irish goddess of the land and of sovereignty (see Ériu). In some cases, the official English or anglicised name is wholly different from the official Irish language name.

  9. Hiberno-Roman relations - Wikipedia

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    Rome never annexed Hibernia (the Latin name for Ireland) into the Roman Empire, but did exert influence on the island, although only a small amount of evidence of this has survived. [citation needed] This influence was expressed in three characteristic ways: commercial; cultural and religious; and military.