* The festivity of the hand () takes its name from the copper hand, possibly a symbol of fraternity, which tops the steeple of the church of Dottignies.

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

* 1812 – The Territory of Orleans becomes the 18th U. S. state under the name Louisiana.

* 1770 – James Cook names and lands on Possession Island, Queensland and claims the east coast of Australia as New South Wales in the name of King George III.

Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn Sīnā ( Persian پور سينا Pur-e Sina " son of Sina "; c. 980 – 1037 ), commonly known as Ibn Sīnā or by his Latinized name Avicenna, was a Persian polymath, who wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived.

Michael Praetorius mentions an alphorn-like instrument under the name of Hölzern Trummet ( wooden trumpet ) in Syntagma Musicum ( Wittenberg, 1615 – 1619 ; Pl.

2285 – 2250 BC, is the first poet in history whom we know by name.

* 1784 – Western North Carolina ( now eastern Tennessee ) declares itself an independent state under the name of Franklin ; it is not accepted into the United States, and only lasts for four years.

In the list of popes given in the Holy See's annual directory, Annuario Pontificio, the following note is attached to the name of Pope Leo VIII ( 963 – 965 ): At this point, as again in the mid-eleventh century, we come across elections in which problems of harmonising historical criteria and those of theology and canon law make it impossible to decide clearly which side possessed the legitimacy whose factual existence guarantees the unbroken lawful succession of the successors of Saint Peter.

There has not been a monarch known as Alphonso or Alfonso I of Spain, the first king of that name of the unified Spain being Alfonso XII of Spain ( 1874 – 1885 ).

Agathocles ( 361 – 289 BC ), ( Greek name Ἀγαθοκλῆς ( Agathokles ): derived from αγαθός ( agathos ) good and κλέος ( kleos ) glory ), was a Greek tyrant of Syracuse ( 317 – 289 BC ) and king of Sicily ( 304 – 289 BC ).

Ælfheah (, " elf-high "; 954 – 19 April 1012 ), officially remembered by the name Alphege within some churches, and also called Elphege, Alfege, or Godwine, was an Anglo-Saxon Bishop of Winchester, later Archbishop of Canterbury.

* A " Dreadnought ", arguably the most common body style, incorporates a deeper soundbox, but a smaller and less-pronounced upper bout ( the area of the soundbox between the waist and neck ) than most styles, giving a somewhat wedge-shaped appearance – hence its name, relating to a class of warship.

* 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine Emperor, with the name of Anastasius I.

* 1984 – The Republic of Upper Volta changes its name to Burkina Faso.

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Abd al-Rahman I, or, his full name by patronymic record, Abd al-Rahman ibn Mu ' awiya ibn Hisham ibn Abd al-Malik ibn Marwan ( 731 – 788 ) ( Arabic: عبد الرحمن الداخل ) was the founder of the Umayyad Emirate of Córdoba ( 755 ), a Muslim dynasty that ruled the greater part of Iberia for nearly three centuries ( including the succeeding Caliphate of Córdoba ).

* 1134 – The name Zagreb was mentioned for the first time in the Felician Charter relating to the establishment of the Zagreb Bishopric around 1094.

* 2005 – Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

Archduke Charles of Austria, Duke of Teschen (, also known as Karl von Österreich-Teschen ) ( Full name: Karl Ludwig Johann Josef Lorenz of Austria ) ( 5 September 1771 – 30 April 1847 ) was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of emperor Leopold II and his wife Infanta Maria Luisa of Spain.

" Yokum " was a combination of yokel and hokum, although Capp established a deeper meaning for the name during a series of visits around 1965 – 1970 with comics historians George E. Turner and Michael H. Price.

Due to a false etymology, a popular belief is that they were most likely Finns – the obsolete name of Nenets people, Samoyed, has a similar meaning in Russian: " self-eater ".

The village was completely abandoned which is where the name ' Deserted Village ' came from.

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.

In 1835, the Albion Company, a land development company formed by Jesse Crowell, platted a village and Peabody's wife was asked to name the settlement.

The name may mean acorn farmstead from Anglo-Saxon æcern meaning acorn and tun meaning farmstead or village.

The village is said to take its name from the " Bold Venture " that it must have appeared to build a farm in this moorland, but this is probably folk etymology, as " Bol -" is a common prefix in Cornish placenames.

The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese and has been a centre for strawberry growing, with the crop being transported on the Cheddar Valley line, which closed in the late 1960s but is now a cycle path.

The village gave its name to Cheddar cheese, which is the most popular type of cheese in the United Kingdom.

The village of Kilmacolm in Renfrewshire is also derived from Columba's name.

Indeed, Cervantes deliberately omits the name of the village, giving an explanation in the final chapter:

The opening sentence of the book created a classic Spanish cliché with the phrase (" whose name I do not wish to recall "): (" In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not wish to recall, there lived, not very long ago, one of those gentlemen with a lance in the lance-rack, an ancient shield, a skinny old horse, and a fast greyhound.

* 1253: First known mention of the name " Gdynia ", as a Pomeranian ( Kashubian ) fishing village.

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

The studios generally used the name of Elstree ( the adjoining village ).

It was a political entity composed of villages, and each village was autonomous and independent with its own territory and name, each recognized by its neighbors.

The site takes its name from a modern village located near the former course of the Ravi River.

Herod was succeeded in Judea by his son, Archelus, who built an adjacent village in his name, Archelais, to house workers for his date plantation ( Khirbet al-Beiyudat ).

The village has never been known as Goatmilkshire though the area north east of the village has always had that name or Gaitmilkshire.

Trotsky joined the Soviet under the name " Yanovsky " ( after the village he was born in, Yanovka ) and was elected vice-Chairman.

* Lajjun, Palestinian village whose name is derived from " Legion "

Zygmunt Gloger in his work Historical geography of land of ancient Poland ( Geografia historyczna ziem dawnej Polski ) states that according to a Polish custom, whenever a new village was formed next to an older one, the name of the new entity was presented with an adjective little ( or lesser ), while the old village was described as greater.

The phrase, which had previously been limited to regional usage with various possible references, was co-opted and popularized to mean " Old Kinderhook ", a reference to Van Buren based on the name of his home village in New York.