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    the modern countries of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands. Both Belgium and the Netherlands derived their names from earlier names for the region...
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    the region called the Low Countries (Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg) all have comparatively the same toponymy. Place names with Neder, Nieder, Nedre...
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    International Airport (South Korea) and Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (The Netherlands). Toponymy is one of the most common sources for the naming of airports. A...
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    Celtic toponymy is the study of place names wholly or partially of Celtic origin. These names are found throughout continental Europe, Britain, Ireland...
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  • Dutch names German names Norman toponymy (includes Old Norse placenames in Normandy) German toponymy Celtic toponymy Placenames in the United Kingdom...
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    traditionally known as Frisia, named after the Frisians, is a province of the Netherlands located in the country's northern part. It is situated west of Groningen...
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  • rankings of prime ministers of the Netherlands. An opinion poll conducted by the States General of the Netherlands in 2002 had the following results for...
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    Mastrique (archaic)) is a city and a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It is the capital and largest city of the province of Limburg. Maastricht...
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  • Barr, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France Bahr, Netherlands, hamlet in Gelderland, Netherlands Bahr (surname) Bahr (toponymy), a component of Arabic placenames meaning...
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  • seventeenth-century colonial province of the Republic of the Seven United Netherlands on northeastern coast of North America. The claimed territory were the...
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  • missionaries to the region, medieval and modern folklore and legend, and local toponymy. From ancient regional mythology, most names of ancient gods and goddesses...
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    ISBN 0-330-28121-6, US Edition: ISBN 0-517-55347-3) is a humorous dictionary of toponymy and etymology, written by Douglas Adams and John Lloyd, published in the...
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    Lists of Dutch inventions and discoveries (category Netherlands history-related lists)
    List of place names of Dutch origin Australian places with Dutch names Toponymy of New Netherland New Holland List of English words of Dutch origin Japanese...
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  • in the names of several countries or country subdivisions, indicates a toponymy - a land. The word derived from the Old English land, meaning "ground,...
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  • Vietnamese surname (equivalent to Sun) -ton, a common feature in British toponymy Ton, Trentino, Italy; a commune Tôň, a village in Slovakia Ton Pentre Tonga...
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    theology marked the beginning of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Toponymy of New Netherland Etymologies of place names in Hudson County, New Jersey...
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  • after famous people. For more on the general etymology of place names see toponymy. For other lists of eponyms (names derived from people) see eponym. Americas...
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    Patroon Rensselaerswyck Vriessendael Zwaanendael New Netherland settlements Toponymy of Bergen, New Netherland Karnoutsos, Carmela. "Pavonia". New Jersey City...
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    Bologna  Italy 1960 Sherbourne Kingston  Jamaica 1962 St Michael's Arnhem  Netherlands 1958 Upper Stoke Warsaw  Poland 1957 Wainbody Cork  Ireland 1958 Holbrooks...
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  • and as the language of culture among the elite.[citation needed] In the toponymy of New Netherland, a 17th-century province in North America, Dutchification...
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    Nordwestblock (category Archaeological cultures in the Netherlands)
    inheritance from Proto-Indo-European), or by analysis of place-names (toponymy and hydronymy). Broadly, this substrate area is sometimes called the North-West...
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  • AA (section Netherlands)
    or aa, a form of lava A term for "river" in German hydronymy, see Aach (toponymy) Aa (surname), a Scandinavian surname, including a list of people with...
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    Saxons (section Netherlands)
    needed] They can be traced in documents, but also in archeology and in toponymy. The Notitia Dignitatum mentions the Tribunus cohortis primae novae Armoricanae...
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    Baarle (category Belgium–Netherlands border)
    to Gotfried is now in the Netherlands. The title "Lord of Breda" is now held by Willem-Alexander, king of the Netherlands. The title "Duke of Brabant"...
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    Vuolteenaho, Jani (eds.). Critical toponymies: The contested politics of place naming. Ashgate. Kadmon, Naftalie (2004). "Toponymy and geopolitics: The political...
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    the end of the French age and at the beginning of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Beers became a separate municipality. In 1942, Great-Linden and Gassel...
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    Muscat (section Toponymy)
    National Transport Company buses. Mwasalat buses procured from VDL of the Netherlands and MAN of Germany have several hi-tech features, including free Wi-Fi...
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    Archived from the original on January 9, 2022. Retrieved July 24, 2011. "Toponymy section of the Lisbon Municipality website". Toponimia.cm-lisboa.pt. January...
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  • List of city name changes (category Lists of cities by toponymy)
    This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling...
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    (historical linguistics) Ethnology Folklore History Literature Onomastics (Toponymy) Religious studies (see Celtic Christianity) Political science Osborn Bergin...
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