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  2. List of short place names - Wikipedia

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    Ý, Vietnamese name for Italy; Å, a village in Andøy Municipality in Nordland, Norway. Å is Danish, Norwegian and Swedish for "brook" or "small river". Å, a village in Moskenes Municipality in Nordland, Norway; Å, a village in Orkland Municipality in Trøndelag, Norway; Å, a village in Åfjord Municipality in Trøndelag, Norway

  3. List of fictional settlements - Wikipedia

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    A fictional town located in the fictional Midwestern state of North Yankton, based on North Dakota. The town's name, which is named after the German military leader Erich Ludendorff, alludes to Bismarck, the state capital of North Dakota, named after the German military leader and statesman Otto Von Bismarck. Midgar Final Fantasy VII

  4. List of fictional towns in literature - Wikipedia

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    In the novel Death on the Nile, Malton-under-Wode is a country village. Located in the village is the estate Wode Hall, previously owned by Sir George Wode. He sold it to the rich heiress Linnet Ridgeway, due to financial difficulties. Manawaka, Manitoba: Margaret Laurence: The Stone Angel: The town is also used in Daniel Poliquin's novel L ...

  5. Wikipedia:Unusual place names - Wikipedia

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    The name of four villages in Estonia. Means "penis" in Finnish and Estonian. Kullimaa: The name of two villages in Estonia. Means "land of penis" in Finnish and Estonian. Kumi: A town in Uganda that the Finns might find amusing. "Kumi" means either "rubber" or "eraser" but is also a slang term for a condom. Kumler: A ghost town in Illinois ...

  6. List of generic forms in place names in the British Isles

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    This article lists a number of common generic forms in place names in the British Isles, their meanings and some examples of their use. The study of place names is called toponymy ; for a more detailed examination of this subject in relation to British and Irish place names, refer to Toponymy in the United Kingdom and Ireland .

  7. List of fictional towns in animation - Wikipedia

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    Duck Town is a large town which resembles a city, and a town where SwaySway and Buhdeuce deliver a lot of their bread to. Everybody living in Duck Town is a photorealistic duck. Duck Town is said to contain a bad area called the "Lower Yeast Side" (a spoof of New York City's Lower East Side.) Ducktown Sitting Ducks: Cartoon Network

  8. List of Hebrew exonyms - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of traditional Hebrew place names. This list includes: 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.

  9. Abhartach - Wikipedia

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    Abhartach (pronounced [ˈəuɾˠt̪ˠəx]; Irish for 'dwarf'), also Avartagh, is an early Irish legend, which was first collected in Patrick Weston Joyce's The Origin and History of Irish Names of Places (1870). [1] Abhartach should not be confused with the similarly named Abartach, a figure associated with Fionn mac Cumhaill.