In January 1844, Alcott moved his family to Still River, a village within Harvard but, on March 1, 1845, the family returned to Concord to live in a home they named " The Hillside " ( later renamed " The Wayside " by Nathaniel Hawthorne ).

* Latoreia, who had a small village near Ephesus named after her.

The present village Amfipoli (), named after the ancient city, occupies the site.

Bauxite was named after the village Les Baux in southern France, where it was first recognised as containing aluminium and named by the French geologist Pierre Berthier in 1821.

* Balmoral bonnet, an unbrimmed cap common in Highland dress, named for the Scottish village and castle

The Battle of Świecino ( named for the village of Świecino, near Żarnowiec Lake, northern Poland ) also called the Battle of Żarnowiec or in German Battle of Schwetz, took place on September 17, 1462 during the Thirteen Years ' War.

It is named after the village of Mayo, which is now generally known as Mayo Abbey.

Cadillac was originally named Clam Lake and was incorporated as a village in 1874.

Georgy Canaan lists Crete as one of the protectorates established by the Canaanites ( Phoenicians ) who named it the village, Cret ( Arabicقرية ).

He named the new element after the village of Ytterby where large concentrations of yttria and erbium are located.

The River Ems, which is named after the village ( not, as often believed, the town named after the river ) also flows into the Slipper millpond, and although the mill is no longer in use it now houses a number of offices.

The village of Oakley, burnt to the ground by the dragon early in the story, may also be named after Oakley, Buckinghamshire, near to Thame.

Under the guidance of two village priests, Millet acquired a knowledge of Latin and modern authors, before being sent to Cherbourg in 1833 to study with a portrait painter named Paul Dumouchel.

To avenge the deaths, Frémont attacked a Klamath Tribe fishing village named Dokdokwas, that most likely had nothing to do with the attack, at the junction of the Williamson River and Klamath Lake, on May 10, 1846.

It also participates in the Schengen Group ( named after the Luxembourg village where the agreements were signed ), whose goal is the free movement of citizens among member states.

A second village was started at Ball Bay, named after the captain of HMS Supply, Lieutenant Henry Lidgbird Ball.

Traveling from the Atlantic Ocean coast in present-day Gabon via the rivers Ogooué and Lefini he arrived in 1880 in the kingdom of the Téké where on 10 September 1880 he signed the treaty with king Makoko establishing French control over the region and making his capital soon afterwards at the small village named Mfoa later to be called Brazzaville.

" In urban areas roads may diverge through a city or village and be named as streets, serving a dual function as urban space easement and route.

Both strontium and strontianite are named after Strontian, a village in Scotland near which the mineral was first discovered.

Strontium is named after the Scottish village of Strontian ( Gaelic Sron an t-Sithein ), having been discovered in the ores taken from the lead mines there.

The village of Perranporth (' Porthpyran ' in Cornish ) hosts the annual inter-Celtic festival of ' Lowender Peran ', which is also named in honour of him.

It proved fever-ridden and was abandoned, a new village being laid out on higher ground and named Lydenburg in memory of their sufferings at the abandoned settlement.

Santorini was named by the Latin Empire in the thirteenth century, and is a reference to Saint Irene, from the name of the old cathedral in the village of Perissa.

Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.

He wanted desperately to see Kayabashi defeated, the Communists in the village rooted out, the mission standing triumphant, for in the triumph of the Lord he himself would be triumphant, too.

When the telephone rang on the day after Hino went down to the village, Rector had a hunch it would be Hino with some morsel of information too important to wait until his return, for there were few telephones in the village and the phone in Rector's office rarely rang unless it was important.

Kayabashi must feel fairly certain of his victory in order to make a visit like this, a trip which could be so easily misinterpreted by the people in the village.

This village was deserted in 1855 when the tenants were evicted by the local landlord so the land could be used for cattle grazing, the tenants were forced to rent holdings in Currane, Dooega and Slievemore.

Due to the crowded nature of Rome at the time, Octavius was taken to his father's home village at Velletri to be raised.

It has also been suggested that the name might be related to the ribat of Waggag ibn Zallu in the village of Aglu ( near present-day Tiznit ), where the future Almoravid spiritual leader Abdallah ibn Yasin got his initial training.

Until around 1830 visitors considered Accrington to be just a " considerable village ".

The narrow fringing reef surrounding the island can be a maritime hazard, so there is a day beacon near the old village site.

The Danish cavalry, under the Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt ( not to be confused with the Duke of Württemberg who fought with Eugene ), had made slow work of crossing the Nebel near Oberglau ; harassed by Marsin's infantry near the village, the Danes were driven back across the stream.

This makes it particularly appropriate for small communities as it can be played in village halls, schools, sports and social clubs, hotels and so on.

Potter and Warne may have hoped that Hill Top Farm would be their holiday home, but after Warne's death Potter went ahead with its purchase as she had always wanted to own that farm and live in " that charming village ".

The location of this famous battle is now claimed by some to be the village of Great Wratting, in Suffolk, which lies in the Stour Valley on the Icknield Way West of Colchester, and by a village in Essex.

There are several places that claim to be the geographic center of Asia, for example Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva in the Russian Federation, and a village north of Ürümqi, the capital of the Xinjiang region of China.

Instead, early 21st century papers on Chinese history tend to be empirical studies of a small part of China which aim to reach a deep understanding of the socio-economics, political dynamics, or cultural dynamics of a small region such as a province or a village with little effort made to create a master narrative which would be generalizable to all of China.

Before a systematic excavation of the site could be undertaken, the village had to be relocated but the residents resisted.

Dartmoor Prison was reopened in 1851 as a civilian prison, but was closed again in 1917 to be converted into a Home Office Work Centre for certain conscientious objectors granted release from prison ; cells were unlocked, inmates wore their own clothes, and could visit the village in their off-duty time.

Anne further honoured Churchill, after his leadership in the victories against the French of 13 August 1704 near the village of Blenheim ( German Blindheim ) on the river Danube ( Battle of Blenheim ), by granting him the royal manor of Woodstock, and building him a house at her own expense to be called Blenheim.

In the Syrian village of Tedef, a shrine said to be the burial place of Ezra has been venerated by Jews for centuries.

A building known as the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai is located in Hamadan, Iran, although the village of Kfar Bar ' am in northern Israel also claims to be the burial place of Queen Esther.

Yale's ancestry can be traced back to the family estate at Plas yn Iâl near the village of Llandegla, Denbighshire, Wales.