The island is named after the mythological city of Themiscyra, the capital of the Amazon tribe in Greek mythology.

In Greek mythology, Themiscyra ( Θεμίσκυρα ) was the capital of the nation of all-female warriors called Amazons, on the river Thermodon.

In Greek mythology, the legendary capital of the Amazons, Themiscyra, was found on the river Thermodon.

In one version, during Heracles ' ninth labor, which was to obtain the Girdle of Hippolyte, when he captured the Amazons ' capital of Themiscyra, his companion Theseus, king of Athens, abducted Antiope and brought her to his home ( or she was captured by Heracles and then given by him to Theseus ).

The crew then set off for Themiscyra where Hippolyte lived.

In " Time, Warped ", Warhawk met the modern-day Green Lantern John Stewart, the first Batman ( Bruce Wayne ), and Wonder Woman ( Diana of Themiscyra ), who had been sent into the future by Chronos.

Jean is shown falling into the ocean near Themiscyra and a shark is seen approaching her.

* Gryne, an Amazon who was thought to be the eponym of the Gryneian grove in Asia Minor.

* Smyrna ( Amazon ), mythical eponym of a quarter in Ephesus

* An Amazon in Greek mythology, eponym of Cyme ( Aeolis )

* Aegea, queen of the Amazons who was thought by some to have been the eponym of the Aegean Sea.

Her daughter Amazo was thought of as the eponym of the Amazons.

* Myrleia, possible eponym of a city in Bithynia, which was later known as Apamea.

Either Artemis " slew Kallisto with a shot of her silver bow ," perhaps urged by the wrath of Juno ( Hera ) or later Arcas, the eponym of Arcadia, nearly killed his bear-mother, when she had wandered into the forbidden precinct of Zeus.

It is an eponym of a possibly fictional French soldier Nicolas Chauvin who was credited with many superhuman feats in the Napoleonic wars.

Diomus is also mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium as the eponym of the deme Diomeia of the Attic phyle Aegeis: Heracles is said to have fallen in love with Diomus when he was received as guest by Diomus ' father Collytus.

Also given as his children are Euryale, possibly the mother of Orion with Poseidon, and Pholegander, eponym of the island Pholegandros.

His name is the eponym of chauvinism, a term for excessive nationalistic fervor.

Thomas L. Thompson ( The Bible in History ), however, interprets the Mesha stele as suggesting that Omri is an eponym, or legendary founder of the kingdom rather than an historical person.

Pierre Vernier ( 1580 – 1637 ) was inventor and eponym of the vernier scale used in measuring devices.

* Abd al-Rahman al-Awza ' i, chief representative and eponym of the Awzai school of Islamic law ( d. 774 )

* Proetus of Thebes, eponym of the Proetid Gates, and father of Galanthis.

He was chieftain of the Ó Máille clan and a direct descendant of its eponym, Maille mac Conall.

An eponym is a person or thing, whether real or fictitious, after which a particular place, tribe, era, discovery, or other item is named or thought to be named.

For example, Léon Theremin is the eponym of the theremin.

A synonym of " eponym " is namegiver.

An etiological myth can be a " reverse eponym " in the sense that a legendary character is invented in order to explain a term, such as the nymph Pirene ( mythology ), who according to myth was turned into Pirene's Fountain.

* In intellectual property law an eponym can refer to a genericized trademark or brand name, a form of metonymy.

The eponym gave apparent meaning to the mysterious names of tribes, and sometimes, as in the Sons of Noah, provided a primitive attempt at ethnology as well, in the genealogical relationships of eponymous originators.

It is occasionally referred to as a Bosie ( or Bosey ), an eponym in honour of its inventor Bernard Bosanquet.

The eponym was bestowed by Jean-Martin Charcot ( 1825 – 1893 ) on behalf of his resident, Georges Albert Édouard Brutus Gilles de la Tourette ( 1859 – 1904 ), a French physician and neurologist, who published an account of nine patients with Tourette's in 1885.

The eponym Gee-Herter disease was sometimes used to acknowledge both contributions.

Leticia is a city in the Republic of Colombia, capital of the department of Amazonas, Colombia's southernmost town ( 4. 09 ° south 69. 57 ° west ) and one of the major ports on the Amazon river.

Porto Velho (, Old Port ) is the capital of the Brazilian state of Rondônia, in the upper Amazon River basin.

They even became the largest foreign colony in the Amazon capital of Iquitos by the end of the century.

He joined Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers in 1980, and since then, has directed venture capital funding to some of the most successful technology companies in the world including Compaq, Netscape, Symantec, Sun Microsystems, drugstore. com, Amazon. com, Intuit, Macromedia and Google, as well as Friendster, GO Corp., and others.

Kozmo. com raised $ 250 million in capital and attracted attention from Amazon. com and Starbucks.

Punchana is the capital of the Punchana District in the Maynas Province of the Loreto Region in northeastern Peru, in the Peruvian Amazon Jungle.

Nauta is a bustling small town situated in the northeastern area of the Peruvian Amazon roughly 100 km south of the Province's capital, Iquitos.

Besides Amazon and Arts Alliance Ventures, venture capital firms Balderton Capital, DFJ Esprit, Index Ventures and Octopus Ventures also have stakes in LoveFilm.

When the bridge is opened, it will be possible to drive uninterrupted from Cayenne to Macapá ( on the Amazon River ), the capital of the state of Amapá in Brazil.