The word flamenco is the Spanish name for the Greater Flamingo, a bird native to southern Spain.

Greater Poland or Great Poland, often known by its Polish name Wielkopolska (; Latin: Polonia Maior ) is a historical region of west-central Poland.

Following the German invasion of 1939, Greater Poland was incorporated into Nazi Germany, becoming the province called Reichsgau Posen, later Reichsgau Wartheland ( Warthe being the German name for the Warta river ).

A common way to express a claim to adjacent territories on the grounds of historical or ethnic association is by using the epithet " Greater " before the country name.

Other features include the Acute Care for Elders Unit, or ACE Unit and a Level I Trauma Center, one of only three in the entire Greater Houston area .< Ref name = trauma1 >

Since 2000, the Greater London Authority has been the transport authority and the executive agency has been called Transport for London ; ending the 67 year use of the London Transport name.

The name Greater Poland ( Polonia Maior ) was for the first time used in 1242, by princes Boleslaw and Przemyslaw I, who named themselves Duces Majoris Poloniae ( Princes of the Older Poland ).

Following the German invasion of 1939, Greater Poland was incorporated into Nazi Germany, becoming the province called Reichsgau Posen, later Reichsgau Wartheland ( Warthe being the German name for the Warta river ).

The Cappella Maggiore derived its name, the Greater Chapel, from the fact that there was another chapel also in use by the Pope and his retinue for daily worship.

The name Assyria itself was derived from that of the city of Assur or Asur, now Qal ' at Sherqat ( Kaleh Shergat ), on the right bank of the Tigris, midway between the Greater and the Lesser Zab.

There is much consensus however that the name " Italia " was originally given to the region of modern Calabria by the ancient Greeks during their foundation of Magna Graecia ( Greater Greece ) in southern Italy around the eight century BC.

In October 2008, and again in 2009, YMCA of Greater Toronto in Canada was named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers by Mediacorp Canada Inc. On 11 July 2010, the YMCA of the USA re-branded its name to the popular nickname, " The Y ", and revised the iconic red and black logo to create five coloured versions.

The region is grouped under the name Greater Westbury, a region that also includes organizations with common interests, such as those in Carle Place, New York to the south and Old Westbury, New York to the north.

Both parents were Jews from Germany ( the family name was originally spelt Monasch and pronounced with the emphasis on the second syllable ), living in Krotoschin in the Kingdom of Prussia, now Krotoszyn in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland.

* Área Metropolitana de Buenos Aires, another name for Greater Buenos Aires

The name means " long wooded valley " and the valley marks the boundary between the counties of Derbyshire and Greater Manchester.

* Two amateur dramatic theatres in Greater Manchester, the Altrincham Garrick Theatre and the Stockport Garrick Theatre, also take his name.

In Europe it has been known as simply " White-fronted Goose "; in North America it is known as the Greater White-fronted Goose ( or " Greater Whitefront "), and this name is also increasingly adopted internationally.

Essex was born in Plaistow, which was at that time in Essex ( hence his stage name ), but now falls within the borders of Greater London .< ref >

The band's name was taken from Greater London's orbital motorway, the M25, which was central to the early rave scene and party network in the South East during the early days of acid house.

Despite its name, City Hall is neither located in nor does it serve a city ( as recognised by English constitutional law ), often adding to the confusion of Greater London with the City of London, whose headquarters is in the Guildhall, north of the Thames.

There are today eight parks formally described by this name and they cover almost of land in Greater London.

London Weekend Television ( LWT ) ( now part of ITV London ) was the name of the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties at weekends, broadcasting from Fridays at 5: 15pm ( prior to 1982 at 7: 00pm ) to Monday mornings at 6: 00am.

As for Western sources, Benjamin of Tudela, the Jewish traveler who passed through Lebanon in or about 1165, was one of the first European writers to refer to the Druzes by name.

A 2003 decision by an American court found IJO was the name used by Hezbollah for its attacks in Lebanon, and parts of the Middle East, and Europe.

He disarmed the Druze and allied with France, governing in the name of the Egyptian Pasha Muhammad Ali, who entered Lebanon and formally took overlordship in 1832.

He is a Lebanese Australian ; his paternal grandfather, whose family name was Barakat, came to Australia as a child from Zahlé in the Beqaa Valley of Lebanon in the 1890s.

From 1995 to 1996, while Ziad Jarrah was still living in Lebanon, according to his family, somebody of the same name rented an apartment in Brooklyn, New York.

In modern usage, the name is often associated with the Hebrew Bible, where the " Land of Canaan " extends from Lebanon southward to the " Brook of Egypt " and eastward to the Jordan River Valley.

Tarshish is the name of a village in Lebanon.

This is known to be the name of a nation and people who settled the Eastern shore of the Mediterranean in what is now called Israel and Lebanon and Syria.

For the country whose French name is Liban, see Lebanon.

The concert was recorded and released as The Final Concert in 2004, but re-released later in 2004 as 70 Miles From Lebanon, as well as with a DVD of the same name.

" Lebanon was the first town in Connecticut colony to be given a Biblical name.

Originally named Lebanon, the name was changed to West Lebanon in 1869 when the town was incorporated, possibly in deference to the Boone County community of the same name which established its post office on December 15, 1832, just eleven days before their own.

: see also, Lebanon Township, New Jersey ; for other places with the same name, see Lebanon ( disambiguation )

For other places with the same name, see Lebanon ( disambiguation ).

Lebanon ," however objections were raised by their as yet unincorporated neighbors to the south who eventually adopted the name.

Established in 1912 as " Mount Lebanon ", the community's official name was changed to " Mt.

Prior to the incorporation of the township, the " Mount Lebanon " name was used for the area of Upper St. Clair Township near the cedar trees.

Incorporators of neighboring Dormont Borough initially tried to use the " Mount Lebanon " name in 1909, but were opposed by residents of the future Mount Lebanon Township.

Lebanon is the name of some places in the U. S. state of Wisconsin:

Dalida collected 19 number one hit singles to her name in four languages ( French, Italian, German, and Arabic ) and has a long list of top 10, and top 20 hits in French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Arabic, and accumulated myriad top selling singles and albums largely, in France, Italy, Germany, Belgium, Spain, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Greece, Canada, Russia, Japan, and Israel, spanning over forty years.