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includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references.As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the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

  3. 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 ...

  4. List of Latin names of cities - Wikipedia

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    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".

  5. List of Latin names of countries - Wikipedia

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    List of Latin names of countries. 6 languages. ... or significant regions, known to the Roman Empire. Latin Name ... Ireland: Hispania [3] Spain: Hungaria: Hungary:

  6. Place names in Ireland - Wikipedia

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    Pursuant to the Official Languages Act 2003 and the advice of the Coimisiún Logainmneacha (Place-Names Commission), the Placenames (Centres of Population and Districts) Order 2005 was issued, listing the equivalent in the Irish language of place-names specified in the Order with its English form. The Irish words then had the same meaning and ...

  7. List of national capital city name etymologies - Wikipedia

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    Poznań is known as Posen in German, and was officially called Haupt- und Residenzstadt Posen ("Capital and Residence City of Poznań") between 20 August 1910 and 28 November 1918. The Latin names of the city are Posnania and Civitas Posnaniensis. Its Yiddish name is פּױזן, or Poyzn.

  8. List of Irish place names in other countries - Wikipedia

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    The following places in countries other than Ireland are named after places in Ireland. Massive emigration, often called the Irish diaspora, from Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in many towns and regions being named or renamed after places in Ireland. The following place names sometimes share strong ties with the original place ...

  9. Ireland - Wikipedia

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    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 ...