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	Roman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Roman Republic — 509 BC to 44 BC — traditionally lasted as a representative government of Rome and its territories from 509 BC until the establishment of the Roman Empire, typically placed at 44 BC or 27 BC.
		Roman road — as a military, commercial, and political expedient, Romans became adept at constructing long straight roads and were essential for the growth of their empire.
		Roman type is a typographic term referring both to a particular family of fonts, the most famous and common of which is Times New Roman, and to a style of typeface (resembling classical Roman lettering) used in most font families.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/R/Roman.htm (1020 words)

	List of Roman place names in Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and mis-spellings of the Latin names.
		Moreover one of the principal authorities, Ptolemy, wrote in Greek so names that he records need to be transliterated back into Latin to reveal the original form.
		Note that in general only one source is shown below for each name, although many of the names are recorded in more than one of the sources.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Roman_place_names_in_Britain (166 words)

	Place names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Signposts at the entrance of villages and towns bear the French name and underneath in italics the Luxembourgish name in case it differs.
		Frequently records abroad regarding emigrated Luxembourgers bear the place names in Luxembourgish language, as indicated by the Luxembourg speaker, usually more or less corrupted by a clerk not familiar with alien phonetics and spelling.
		Names ending with -macher and the place name Mecher denote an Roman origin as they are derived from the Latin word "maceria" meaning wall (cf.
	www.igd-leo.lu /igd-leo/onomastics/villages/villages.html (406 words)

	Place-names in The Danelaw
		The suffix is usually a sort of description of the place - whether it was a village, a new 'daughter' settlement hacked out of the woodland, a solitary farm and so on.
		The English contribution to the hybrid name is frequently one of the suffixes -ham, -ton or -ley.
		Many -by names are to be found in Yorkshire (especially in the east), around the Mersey and the Lancashire coast, and in the central Midlands.
	www.viking.no /e/england/danelaw/epl-danelaw.htm (982 words)

	Those Darn Russian Place Names
		Place names can torment Russian translators, because Russian grammar and the diversity of naming conventions make it hard to find their best English expression.
		Place names whose native language does not use a Roman alphabet, e.g., Chinese, present special difficulties.
		In unfortunate reality it could have been named after Молотов, Молотово, Молотовск, Молотовск, or even Молотовка It could also have been named after a landmark such as a canyon or a mountain.
	www.rmconner.com /transedt/placenam.htm (1406 words)

	Place-names (from Germanic religion and mythology) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Theophoric place-names (derived from or compounded with the name of a god) are found in all Germanic lands.
		Prior to the conquest of Canaan (Palestine) by the Israelites in the 12th–11th century BC, the high places served as shrines of the Canaanite fertility deities, the Baals (Lords) and the Asherot (Semitic goddesses).
		In Malaysia, names and titles are as diverse as the population.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-65398?tocId=65398 (831 words)

	Place Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This is an attempt at a list of Roman place names, which is naturally still set to grow.
		Also please consider that later latinizations of place names, for places like Moskow for example, will not be placed on the list.
		It is the Roman names of places which are sought.
	www.roman-empire.net /diverse/places.html (130 words)

	Korean Language, Etiquette and Dining (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Korean names usually have three parts: the family or surname placed first, and a name identifying the generation, alternating each generation to second or third place with th given personal name.
		There are only around 200 family names in Korea and the five most frequent - Kim Pa(r)k, Yi (Lee), Choi (Choe) and Oh - cover about 70 percent of the population.
		Family names are traditional clan names and each has a village from which it comes.
	lrs.ed.uiuc.edu /students/d-moon1/Kname.html (235 words)

	Latin I
		The second name was the nomen gentile or clan name.
		The third name, the cognomen, was the name of the family branch.
		Here are the full names (as well as the short forms we generally use today) of some famous Romans.
	www.dl.ket.org /latin1/things/romanlife/romannam.htm (564 words)

	The Whole Basque Place-Name List
		The names that appear here are those aproved by Euskaltzaindia, the Basque Language Academy, regardless of which is their official name.
		Sometimes, the valley name is used to distinguish homonymous places.
		This is important to declinate the name according to basque grammar, but you don't have to worry about it otherwise.
	www.geocities.com /CollegePark/5062/topo2.html (389 words)

	The American Empire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Hank Greely says: "I dislike the comparison between the US today and the Roman Empire, either as a description or as an aspiration, which I think is held by some of those who make it.
		And further that the Romans never had complete security on their eastern frontier as they regularly were challenged by various Persian dynasties.
		RH: Certainly the Founding Fathers though in terms of the Roman Empire, as is evident even in the Roman place names given some cities.
	www.stanford.edu /group/wais/USA/us_americanempire11903.html (267 words)

	Place Names in the British Countryside - Countrylovers.co.uk
		Like every part of the world Britain's place names have a story to tell, and reflect the history of our island.
		Place names fall basically into three types - topographical (describing landscape features), habitative (defining a settlement), or folk (referring to a people or tribe).
		Generally you will find that place names combine two or three of these as, for example, in Kirkby which means church village.
	www.countrylovers.co.uk /places/placnams.htm (175 words)

	Mark Moxon, Travel Writer: Cyprus: Place Names in Cyprus
		In the north, all Greek writing has been obliterated from signposts, and place names have officially been changed to reflect the Turkish occupation of that part of the island.
		But to make things really confusing, the Cypriot government adopted a new transliteration scheme in 1994 that totally changed the way Cypriot place names are written in the Roman alphabet.
		The only place where I use the old version in preference is in the article on Nicosia, because nobody I've met uses the new version, and the internationally accepted name for the city is still Nicosia.
	www.moxon.net /cyprus/place_names_in_cyprus.html (317 words)

	List of Roman place names in Britain (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and mis-spellings of the Latin languageLatin names.
		Moreover one of the principal authorities, Ptolemy, wrote in Greek languageGreek so names that he records need to be transliterationtransliterated/ back into Latin to reveal the original form.
		By the end of the 15th century, English was the language of state and was carrying its messages in an increasingly uniform spelling.
	www.infothis.com /find/List_of_Roman_place_names_in_Britain (240 words)

	Roman Gask Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A long term programme to study the Roman Frontier works on and around the Gask Ridge in Perthshire, Scotland.
		The site facilitates searches for modern or Roman place names, major research topics or annual reports or press releases.
		The Gask Ridge frontier system is the earliest Roman land frontier in Britain, built in the 80's AD, 40 years before Hadrian's Wall and 60 years before the Antonine Wall.
	www.unc.edu /awmc/web-romangaskproject.html (129 words)

	Crieff, Comrie, Auchterarder - Perthshire. Meanings of Place Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Place names tend to be used long after their meaning is understood by the people who live in an area.
		Most inhabitants of Strathearn today are not Gaelic speakers while most place names are derived from Gaelic.
		In any area river place names are the oldest often outdating any known language.
	www.strathearn.com /ge/place_names.htm (525 words)

	Place Names of Alberta, Volume IV, Northern Alberta
		The motives for naming places are primarily directional, and although we tend to name things in predictable fashion, the reasons may be as individual as the person naming them.
		The geographical area covered is by far the largest of the four geographical areas of Alberta; in fact, it covers close to one-half of the entire area of the province.
		The third group to have an impact on toponomy was the Roman Catholic missionaries who came primarily from the French order, the Oblates of Mary Immaculate.
	www.ucalgary.ca /uofc/departments/UP/1-895176/1-895176-59-X.html (410 words)

	Roman Place Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A quick reference to Romano-British placenames and their modern loci - far from complete, but it might be of some help.
		In square brackets are the names as they occur in various sources, [Iter= a particular Antonine Itinerary
		The authoritative work on the subject of Romano-British placenames is currently - Rivet, A L F and Smith, Colin, The Place Names of Roman Britain, Batsford, 1979 - but this I believe is long out of print.
	www.btinternet.com /~britannica/roname.html (206 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Geography: Place Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Geographical Names - Cornucopia from the Geography Department of Laurentian University, Ontario including an investigation of the relationship between the author's name, Pitblado, and place names.
		Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names - Compiled by the Getty Research Institute, TGN is a structured vocabulary developed primarily for the field of art history, but can be used in any in many other applications.
		International Alternative Country Names - A list of names for existing countries and some regions and islands that differ from the standard international and/or English nomenclatures.
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Geography/Place_Names (357 words)

	Latin names of European countries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This list is incomplete; you can help by expanding it.
		List of Roman place names in Britain, incl.
		This page was last modified 16:25, 19 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_place_names (84 words)

	Place names and their origins. \| Antimoon Forum
		The first colonists to America were spared the immediate task of giving names to the land since much of the eastern seaboard was already named.
		The native Indian languages of the eastern seaboard were forbiddingly complex and nowhere more so than with their names, yet the colonists showed an extraordinary willingness to use Indian names.
		Before the Roman Empire, the whole of Spain, Portugal (Celtic-Iberian), France (Gaulish-Brittonic), Switzerland, Southern Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Southern Poland, parts of Iceland, Slovenia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Northern Greece, Northern Italy, Lithuania, Luxemborgh, Liechtenstein, Czech Republic, Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovinia, Netherlands and Turkey (Galatia) were considered CELTIC.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/2003/2348.htm (691 words)

	Articles - Roman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The name Romans in the middle ages may be applied to:
		Name of the Greeks during the Middle Ages.
		Romans is often short for the Epistle to the Romans, the sixth book in the New Testament of the Christian Bible.
	gaple.com /articles/Roman?mySession=b3058c20542f033e359615fef6ee29cf (1072 words)

	Classical and Medieval History - Alcove 9: An Annotated List of Reference Websites (Main Reading Room, Library of ...
		Vernacular equivalents of Latin place names, from the Association for College and Research Libraries, Rare Books and Manuscripts Section, Bibliographic Standards Committee.
		Place Names in Imprints: An Index to the Latin and Other Forms Used on Title Pages
		History and use of Roman numerals and the Roman calendar; instructions for forming Roman numerals and dates (day, month, and year); conversion tables for Roman and Arabic numerals.
	www.loc.gov /rr/main/alcove9/classics.html (538 words)

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	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/l/li/list_of_roman_place_names... (121 words)

	KryssTal : London Place Names
		The origin of London's place names (districts and boroughs)
		An essay on the origin and history of the includes a section on the origin of British Place Names.
		Co UK A Dictionary of English Place Names covers the whole of England.
	www.krysstal.com /londname.html (175 words)

	Learn more about List of Roman place names in Britain in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Learn more about List of Roman place names in Britain in the online encyclopedia.
		Hint: Play with putting spaces before and after your words to see the different results you get.
		A list of Roman place names in Britain (also includes Ireland, Faeroe Islands, and Iceland.) and their contemporary equivalents.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /l/li/list_of_roman_place_names_in_britain.html (128 words)

	Open Directory - Science: Social Sciences: Geography: Place Names: History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Index of German-Polish and Polish-German Names of the Localities in Poland and Russia - Anna Sluszkiewicz provides maps and a bibliography in addition to the index.
		The Locus Project - Aims to produce a new Historical Dictionary of Irish placenames and tribal names to replace Fr Edmund Hogan's Onomasticon Goedelicum.
		Roman Gaul - A gazetteer of places and people of Roman Gaul.
	dmoz.org /Science/Social_Sciences/Geography/Place_Names/History (121 words)

	Latin names of regions - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Here are 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.
		1 - Latinized form of a Greek derived name
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /latin_names_of_regions.htm (47 words)

	Ancient Names (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Until the SCA has an official start date, books on Roman names will be needed.
		Under the documentation rules of the SCA, the Bible can be used as a source for names, but a name which can be found in the Bible but not in a book of medieval names is not likely to be reasonably period.
		It includes divine names and place names, which are not generally acceptable for SCA use, but the source of each name is given.(JA)
	www.s-gabriel.org /docs/ancient.html (151 words)

	Drumburgh (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The order of the Rudge Cup, the Amiens patera, and the Ravenna Cosmography follows a sequence along Hadrian's Wall.
		The Notitia Dignitatum names a string of numeri westward to Maglone Old Carlise.
		I believe Mais, the epigraphically attested form, is British for moss - 'a swamp, a morass, a bog, esp. a peat bog along the Scottish border.' The name Mais 'the moss' is suitable for Drumburgh (NY2659).
	www.romanmap.com /htm/names/Drumburgh.htm (359 words)

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