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The Kingdom of Ireland created the title Rex Hiberniae, King of Ireland, for use in Latin texts. Gerardus Mercator called Ireland "Hybernia" on his world map of 1541. [3] In 1642, the motto of the Irish Confederates, a Catholic-landlord administration that ruled much of Ireland until 1650, was Pro Deo, Rege et Patria, Hibernia Unanimis, 'For ...
Continental and Ireland; Iberia; ... Regions; Rivers; This list includes the Roman names of countries, or significant regions, known to the Roman Empire. Latin Name
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includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the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.
A minority, approximately 13,000, retained the Irish Volunteers' name and opposed Ireland's involvement in the war. [86] Sackville Street (now O'Connell Street), Dublin, after the 1916 Easter Rising. The Easter Rising of 1916 was carried out by the latter group together with a smaller socialist militia, the Irish Citizen Army. The British ...
Ireland (Ancient Greek: Ἰουερνία, romanized: Iouernía [1]: 142 [3] or Latin: Hibernia) was known to the Romans and may have been partially colonised by them. [2] Tacitus mentioned the island in his writings as "a small country in comparison with Britain, but larger than the islands of the Mediterranean. In soil and climate, and in the ...
Here is a list of principalities and regions written in the Latin language and English and other names on the right. This is NOT a duplication of Roman provincial names.. cty. - county
Little is known about how Romans adapted foreign place names to Latin form, but there is evidence of the practices of Bible translators.They reworked some names into Latin or Greek shapes; in one version, Yerushalem (tentative reconstruction of a more ancient Hebrew version of the name) becomes Hierosolyma, doubtlessly influenced by Greek ἱερος (hieros), "holy".
Dublin (/ ˈ d ʌ b l ɪ n / ⓘ; Irish: Baile Átha Cliath, [10] pronounced [ˈbˠalʲə aːhə ˈclʲiə] or [ˌbʲlʲaː ˈclʲiə]) is the capital city of Ireland. [11] [12] On a bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the province of Leinster, bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, a part of the Wicklow Mountains range.