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Modernized name Names in medieval languages Name meaning and/or identification Notes Hald (North and South) Old English: Hæleþan: The Hæleþan were a people mentioned in Widsith, line 81. The name Halla herred is attested in the Doomesday book of Valdemar II of Denmark for an area at the Randers Fjord in north Jutland.
Barataria: island kingdom, presumably somewhere in the Mediterranean. The setting for Act II of the operetta The Gondoliers, by Gilbert and Sullivan. Mervo: an island principality in the Mediterranean in the novel The Prince and Betty by P. G. Wodehouse; Mypos: island nation around the Greek isles, home of Balki from Perfect Strangers
A kingdom located, as the name suggests, far far away. Inspired by Hollywood, it is a medieval monarchy and home to several fairy tale creatures/characters. Farfelu, The Most Royal Kingdom of The Kingdom of Farfelu: Surrealistic place in the novel by André Malraux. [89] Faricia, Federal Socialist Republic of Ninja Gaiden series
Name Capital State type Existed Alba (Scotland) Clogher Kingdom 900–1286 AD Cait: Tribal kingdom 25–871 AD Ce: Tribal kingdom 1st century–900 AD Dal Riada: Dunadd Kingdom 501–878 AD Fortriu: Tribal kingdom 1–850 AD Galloway: Kingdom c. 1000–1234 AD Gododdin: Kingdom 5th–8th centuries AD Mann and Isles: Kingdom 848–1266 AD Moray ...
Latveria: a kingdom in the Fantastic Four comic-book series ruled by tyrannical Doctor Doom. Latvislavia: fictional European country in Donald Duck. Known of its national football team. Laurania: the republic in Savrola (A Tale of the Revolution in Laurania) by Winston Churchill. Laurentia: kingdom in the stage musical King's Rhapsody and ...
A medieval field name in Bristol in England, euphemised in the seventeenth-century to 'Pucking Grove'. Fugging: The name of two different villages in Austria, both of which had to be renamed from Fucking: one in Lower Austria, which was renamed in 1836, and one in Upper Austria, renamed in 2021 after
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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 .