The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

The use of the word borough probably derives from the burghal system of Alfred the Great.

The word borough derives from the Old English word burh, meaning a fortified settlement.

It comprises the westernmost portion of the Alaska Peninsula, and a small number of the Aleutian Islands, from which the borough name derives.

The borough contains North America's highest point: Denali ( Mount McKinley ), from which it derives its name, at 6, 194 m ( 20, 320 ft ).

Its name derives from the River Brent which runs through the borough.

The name Cathays derives from Old English ( ge ) hæg ( hedge ), which came to be applied to land lying north-east of the original borough of Cardiff.

The name Osma derives from the Celto-Roman Uxama, while Burgo is cognate to the English word borough.

I felt superior to the neighborhood friends I was leaving behind, felt older than my years, and was full of compliments for myself as I headed into the subway that was carrying its packs of passengers out of that dull borough and into the unstable, tantalizing excitement of Manhattan.

Often, a borough is a single town with its own local government.

In Australia, borough can designate a town and its surrounding area, such as the Borough of Queenscliffe.

In 1994, the administrative county ( which did not include the county borough of Dublin ) was dissolved and the area divided among the administrative counties of Dún Laoghaire – Rathdown, Fingal and South Dublin each with its county seat.

Arpoador beach, where surfers used to go after its perfect waves, comes in the sequence, followed by the famous borough of Ipanema.

Gardner would also join the Historical Association, being elected Co-President of its Bournemouth and Christchurch branch in June 1944, following which he became a vocal supporter for the construction of a local museum for the Christchurch borough.

Hastings was shown as a borough by the time of the Domesday Book ( 1086 ); it had also given its name to the Rape of Hastings, one of the six administrative divisions of Sussex.

Anomalously, the city of Kilkenny is the only city in the Republic not to have a " city council "; it is still a borough but not a county borough and is administered by its eponymous county council.

It was granted city status by Royal Charter by Queen Elizabeth I in 1590, and was made a county borough in 1889 which gave it administrative independence from its county, Somerset.

Staines-upon-Thames, often referred to by its former name Staines (), is a town on the north bank of the River Thames in the borough of Spelthorne in Surrey, England ( historically in Middlesex ).

In 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972, the Staines Urban District was abolished and its area combined with that of the former Sunbury-on-Thames Urban District to form the present-day borough of Spelthorne.

Tories in the House of Lords agreed to the disfranchisement of the borough, but refused to accept the precedent of directly transferring its seats to an industrial city.

The Representation of the People Act 1918 led to Newport becoming a parliamentary borough in its own right, and Monmouth was included in the new Monmouth county constituency.

It returned to its previous selective grammar school status in August 1994, due to opting out of the London borough and becoming a grant-maintained school in 1989.

Each of the city's five counties ( coterminous with each borough ) has its own criminal court system and District Attorney, the chief public prosecutor who is directly elected by popular vote.

Forty-four percent of Brooklyn's employed population, or 410, 000 people, work in the borough ; more than half of the borough's residents work outside its boundaries.

First established as a shipbuilding facility in 1801, the Brooklyn Navy Yard employed 70, 000 people at its peak during World War II and was then the largest employer in the borough.

In 1282 the English-style county of Caernarfonshire was established, composed of Caernarfon ( the new county town ) and its hinterland ; and in 1284 Caernarfon was made a borough and market town, and the seat of Edward I's government in North Wales.

In 1974 it lost its status as the smallest county borough in England, after the Local Government Act 1972, and came under the control of Kent County Council.

Towards the end of his life, Holst wrote Choral Fantasia ( 1930 ), and he was commissioned by the BBC to write a piece for military band ; the resulting Hammersmith was a tribute to the place where he had spent most of his life, a musical expression of the London borough ( of Hammersmith ), which begins with an attempt to recreate the haunting sound of the River Thames sleepily flowing its way.

It lies between the island of Manhattan to its west and the borough of Queens to its east.

Wells became a borough some time before 1160 when Bishop Robert granted its first charter.

Bacup received a charter of incorporation in 1882, giving it honorific borough status and its own elected town government, consisting of a mayor, aldermen and councillors to oversee local affairs.

As there was already a team named Fulham in the borough, the name of the adjacent borough of Chelsea was chosen for the new club, having also considered names like Kensington FC, Stamford Bridge FC and London FC.

A city park in the Montreal borough of Mercier-Hochelaga-Maisonneuve commemorating his capture bears his name.

The name of the village is Anglicized from the Dutch name Greenwijck, meaning " Pine District ", into Greenwich, a borough of London.

Cecil, according to his autobiographical notes, sat in Parliament in 1543 ; but his name does not occur in the imperfect parliamentary returns until 1547, when he was elected for the family borough of Stamford.

The name also survives in that of the county borough of the Vale of Glamorgan.

Until 1889, the county of Surrey included the present-day London borough of Southwark, yet the name has been used for various areas of civil administration, including the ancient Borough of Southwark, the Metropolitan Borough of Southwark and the current London Borough of Southwark.

The ancient borough of Southwark was also known simply as The Borough — or Borough — and this name, in distinction from ' The City ', has persisted as an alternative name for the area.

* Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania-a borough in Westmoreland County, not to be confused with townships of the same name ( see below ).

The name is a pun on Grand Central Station, the train station located in the Manhattan borough of New York City.

Afterwards only one quarter was rebuilt, which was called Vicus Ausonensis ( vicus is Latin for city borough ), from which the name Vic was derived.

Later the towns name was changed to Millersville and was incorporated as a separate borough in Lancaster County.

On the merger with Finsbury, to form the modern borough this name came to be applied to the whole borough.

The name ' Charlton ' was briefly considered for the borough.

The current name of the borough omits hyphens to distinguish it from the similarly named former municipal borough.

Whilst Hornsey was formerly the name of a much larger parish and later a municipal borough of Middlesex, today, the name usually refers only to the London district.