The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl -/ birl-(" swamp ").

The 1868 Hayward earthquake did occur on the southern segment of the Hayward Fault in the vicinity of today's city of Hayward ( hence, how the fault got its name ).

Westermann's comparative work, begun in 1911, initially brought together much of today's Niger – Congo and Nilo-Saharan language phyla under the name Sudanic languages.

Inscriptions have been found in north-west and west-central Italy, in the region that even now bears the name of the Etruscans, Tuscany ( from Latin tuscī " Etruscans "), as well as in modern Latium north of Rome, in today's Umbria west of the Tiber, around Capua in Campania and in the Po valley to the north of Etruria.

The Avesta is believed to have been composed possibly as early as 1800 BC and written in ancient Ariana ( Aryana ), the earliest name of Afghanistan which indicates an early link with today's Iranian tribes to the west, or adjacent regions in Central Asia or northeastern Iran in the 6th century BC .< ref >

Its name is often used as a general term for graphic, amoral horror entertainment, a genre popular from Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre ( for instance Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus and Webster's The White Devil ) to today's splatter films.

Some of the inhabitants of Arachosia were known as Pactyans, whose name possibly survives in today's Pashtun people | Pakhtuns ( Pashtuns ).

The SP and ID numbers were used parenthetically after each boat's or ship's name to identify it ; although this system pre-dated the modern hull classification system and its numbers were not referred to at the time as " hull codes " or " hull numbers ," it was used in a similar manner to today's system and can be considered its precursor.

He discovered in the hieroglyphic text the phonetic characters " p t o l m e s " ( in today's transliteration " p t w l m y s "), that were used to write the Greek name " Ptolemaios ".

The most established explanation for the name are logs driven into the strait passing north of today's old town which dendrochronological examinations in the late 1970s dated to around 1000.

Garbutt continued to produce Underground maps for at least another twenty years — Tube maps stopped bearing the designer's name in 1986, by which time the elements of the map bore a very strong resemblance to today's map.

The practice of using a name as a simple memorable abstraction of a host's numerical address on a computer network dates back to the ARPANET era, before the advent of today's commercial Internet.

Bactria was the Greek name for Old Persian Bāxtriš ( from native * Bāxçiš ) ( named for its capital Bactra, modern Balkh ), in what is now northern Afghanistan, and Margiana was the Greek name for the Persian satrapy of Margu, the capital of which was Merv, in today's Turkmenistan.

2004 < ref name =" Dana "> found a climate sensitivity for the rest of the Phanerozoic which was calculated to be similar to today's modern range of values.

In the fourth century the Romans established the army station Veldidena ( the name survives in today's urban district Wilten ) at Oenipons ( Innsbruck ), to protect the economically important commercial road from Verona-Brenner-Augsburg.

In the 19th century, some maps named the South Island as Middle Island or New Munster, and the name South Island or New Leinster was used for today's Stewart Island / Rakiura.

* Aria ( satrapy ), or Greek Areía, the Greek name form of a satrapy of the Achaemenid Empire in today's Afghanistan

A few remnants of Cfront's translation method are still found in today's C ++ compilers ; name mangling was originated by Cfront, as the relatively primitive linkers at the time did not support type information in symbols, and some template instantiation models are derived from Cfront's early efforts.

One of today's Athens northern suburbs, Ekáli, an affluent and very exclusive residential community on the western foot of Mount Penteli, is called by that name.

* 1241: The name " Gatwick " is first recorded, as Gatwik, the name of a manor, on the site of today's airport ( under the northmost edge of North Terminal's aircraft taxiing area ).

The grant was given the name Rancho San Pablo, thus originating the name for today's city as well as for one of the East Bay's oldest principal roads, today's San Pablo Avenue ( called in the prior Spanish era " El Camino Real de la Contra Costa ").

He first built a small villa and named it Abbotsford, creating the name from a ford nearby where previously abbots of Melrose Abbey used to cross the river.

While there is an official locality named Akibahara, which is also 秋葉原 in kanji, nearby ( as part of Taitō-ku ), the area known to most people as Akihabara ( including the railway station of the same name ) also include Soto-Kanda, a part of Chiyoda-ku.

The station takes its name from the nearby bridge, Manseibashi.

For example, after Henry V of England defeated a French army on October 25, 1415, he met with the senior French herald and they agreed to name the battle after the nearby castle and so it was called the Battle of Agincourt.

During the American Civil War, the Union tended to name the battles after the nearest watercourse, such as the Battle of Wilsons Creek and the Battle of Stones River, whereas the Confederates favoured the nearby towns, as in the Battles of Chancellorsville and Murfreesboro.

Sometimes in desert warfare, there is no nearby town name to use ; map coordinates gave the name to the Battle of 73 Easting in the First Gulf War.

Another historic name in Arabic was the " Sea of Zoʼar ", after a nearby town in biblical times.

For example the temple of Heracles Monoikos ( i. e. the lone dweller ), built far from any nearby town upon a promontory in what is now the Côte d ' Azur, gave its name to the area's more recent name, Monaco.

In 870 AD, Yaqub ibn Layth Saffari, a local ruler of the Saffarid dynasty conquered Herat and the rest of the nearby regions in the name of Islam.

The Quran, however, never uses the term Jihad for fighting and combat in the name of Allah ; qital is used to mean “ fighting .” Jihad in the Quran was originally intended for the nearby neighbors of the Muslims, but as time passed and more enemies arose, the Quranic statements supporting Jihad were updated for the new adversaries.

He became interested in an Arapaho woman whose name, Waa-Nibe, is approximated in English as " Grass Singing " Her tribe was camped nearby the rendezvous.

The name Nevada is derived from the nearby Sierra Nevada mountains, which means " snow-capped mountain range " in Spanish.

The name of the city was preserved at first by a Turkish village on the nearby plain, Philibedjik ( Filibecik, " Little Filibe " in Turkish ), which has since disappeared and then by a Greek village in the mountains.

Another legend has it that the name comes from the fact that six daimyo lived nearby during the Edo period, each with the kanji character for " tree " or a kind of tree in their names.

The name of " Elizabeth Gaskell " commemorates the novelist Elizabeth Gaskell who lived in Plymouth Grove nearby.

Arabic-Berbers ' arrival at the nearby Granitola mount in the VIII century entailed the resumption of commerce and the start of rebirth of the town, which was renamed Marsa ʿAlī " ʿAlī's harbour " or, maybe, Marsa ʿāliyy, " Big harbour ",-for the width of the ancient harbour, placed near Punta d ' Alga-or also Marsa Allāh, namely " God's harbour ", whence the current name.

Ozieri gives its name to the Ozieri culture, a prehistoric civilization whose first findings were excavated in the nearby grotto of San Michele starting from 1914.

Most of Jerry's 46 remaining locations were converted to Denny's by the new owners, with a handful staying under the original name, usually because there was already an existing Denny's nearby.

Gygax also changed the name of the nearby city to " Yggsburgh ", a play on his initials E. G. G.

The Cut was formed by filling in a ravine ( hence the name ) with soil from a nearby hill that was leveled to build the College of Fine Arts building.

The Welsh name for Hereford is Henffordd, meaning " old road ", and probably refers to the Roman Road and Roman settlement at nearby Stretton Sugwas.

BHC originates from a 2006 merge between LTV Wuppertal and rival SG Solingen from the nearby city of the same name.