Alexander has been the name of many rulers, including kings of Macedon, kings of Scotland, emperors of Russia and popes.

Since the early 20th century it has been commonly accepted that Old Irish Bel ( l ) taine is derived from a Common Celtic * belo-te ( p ) niâ, meaning " bright fire " ( where the element * belo-might be cognate with the English word bale in ' bale-fire ' meaning ' white ' or ' shining '; compare Anglo-Saxon bael, and Lithuanian / Latvian baltas / balts, found in the name of the Baltic ; in Slavic languages byelo or beloye also means ' white ', as in Беларусь ( White Russia or Belarus ) or Бе ́ лое мо ́ ре Sea ).

In various countries, the citadels gained a specific name such as " Kremlin " in Russia or " Alcazaba " in the Iberian Peninsula.

Prominent issues in Hellenic foreign policy include the claims in the Aegean Sea and Eastern Mediterranean by Turkey, the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, the dispute over the name of the Republic of Macedonia ( recognized under the provisional denomination of " former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia "), and relations with the United States and Russia.

This recent growth was inspired in part by theoretical works on guerrilla warfare, starting with the Manual de Guerra de Guerrillas by Matías Ramón Mella written in the 19th century and, more recently, Mao Zedong's On Guerrilla Warfare, Che Guevara's Guerrilla Warfare and Lenin's text of the same name, all written after the successful revolutions carried by them in China, Cuba and Russia respectively.

Campbell's dwarf hamster ( Phodopus campbelli ) is the most common — they are also sometimes called " Russian dwarfs "; however, many hamsters are from Russia, so this ambiguous name does not distinguish them from other species appropriately.

* Grand Duke Constantine Constantinovich of Russia ( 1858-1915 ), poet known by his pen name " KR "

Outside Russia, the name Kremlin is sometimes mistakenly thought of as being Saint Basil's Cathedral because of its distinctive environment, although the cathedral is not a part of the Moscow Kremlin.

The name is inspired by the former state-run optics manufacturer LOMO PLC of Saint Petersburg, Russia that created and produced the 35 mm LOMO LC-A Compact Automat camera, now the centerpiece of the Lomographic movement.

Leningrad () is the former name of Saint Petersburg, Russia.

" Mike ", " Mick ", " Mikiel ", " Mikey ", " Mikael ", " Mic ", " Misha " ( common in Russia ) and " Mickey " are short forms of, or nicknames for, Michael as a given name.

Old Prussian ( Prussian: Prūsiskan or Prūsiskai Bilā ) is an extinct Baltic language, once spoken by the Old Prussians, the indigenous peoples of Prussia ( not to be confused with the later and much larger German state of the same name ), now north-eastern Poland and the Kaliningrad Oblast of Russia.

Russian, Finnish and Estonian also have a number of Norse loanwords ; the words Rus and Russia, according to one theory, may be named after the Rus ' people, a Norse tribe ; see Rus ( name ).

The name Russia is derived from Rus, a medieval state populated mostly by the East Slavs.

voyenkomat ), which as of 2006 still exist in Russia in this function and under this name.

But Ekéus ' name failed to receive the approval of the UN Security Council, due to the opposition of France, Russia and China, and so Hans Blix was appointed instead.

The Ros / Rus people ( Swedes from the Roslagen area ) may have given the name to the state " Russia ", though this is highly disputed based on the lack of evidence and the poor documentation of 9th-11th century Eastern Europe.

* 1914 – St. Petersburg, Russia, changes its name to Petrograd.

Stalingrad is the former name of Volgograd, a city in Russia.

The name has also survived in Finnic languages (,, Karelian: Veneä ) denoting Russia.

It is popular in Ukraine ( under the name of, khrin ), in Poland ( under the name of ), in Lithuania ( krienai ) in the Czech Republic (), in Russia (, khren ), in Hungary (), in Romania (), in Bulgaria (, khryan ), and in Slovakia ( under the name of ).

They are sold under the name of Kinder Joy in Austria, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Hungary, France, Germany, Greece, India, Croatia, Indonesia, Israel, Poland, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Taiwan, Turkey, Hong Kong, Portugal, Colombia, South Africa, Singapore, Malaysia, Argentina, Ukraine, Cameroon, the Middle East, Venezuela and various Latin American countries.

Plato in Cratylus connects the name with ( apolysis ), " redeem ", with ( apolousis ), " purification ", and with ( aploun ), " simple ", in particular in reference to the Thessalian form of the name,, and finally with ( aeiballon ), " ever-shooting ".

Hesychius connects the name Apollo with the Doric απέλλα ( apella ), which means " assembly ", so that Apollo would be the god of political life, and he also gives the explanation σηκός ( sekos ), " fold ", in which case Apollo would be the god of flocks and herds.

Alaksandu could be Paris-Alexander of Ilion ", whose name is Greek.

We don't know his original name, but it seems that he was absorbed by the more powerful Apollo, who stood by the " Mistress of the animals ", becoming her brother.

The name Austro-Asiatic comes from the Latin words for " south " and " Asia ", hence " South Asia ".

Its name is Latin for " water-carrier " or " cup-carrier ", and its symbol is 20px (), a representation of water.

The name in the Hindu zodiac is likewise kumbha " water-pitcher ", showing that the zodiac reached India via Greek intermediaries.

The name " Yu-lin " means " feathers and forests ", referring to the numerous light-footed soldiers represented by these faint stars.

The term " Altaic ", as the name for a language family, was introduced in 1844 by Matthias Castrén, a pioneering Finnish philologist who made major contributions to the study of the Uralic languages.

It was said to have been named after the Greek town of Aegae, or after Aegea, a queen of the Amazons who died in the sea, or Aigaion, the " sea goat ", another name of Briareus, one of the archaic Hecatonchires, or, especially among the Athenians, Aegeus, the father of Theseus, who drowned himself in the sea when he thought his son had died.

In order to help reestablish his name and improve the image of his business from the earlier controversies associated with the dangerous explosives, Nobel had also considered naming the highly powerful substance " Nobel's Safety Powder ", but settled with Dynamite instead, referring to the Greek word for ' power '.

As the name Asia came to be extended to other areas east of the Mediterranean, the name for Anatolian became specified as Asia Minor (" Lesser Asia ", Μικρὰ Ἀσία ) in Late Antiquity.

The name Anatolia comes from the Greek () meaning the " East " or more literally " sunrise ", comparable to the Latin terms " Levant " or " Orient " ( and words for " east " in other languages ).

The name " argon " is derived from the Greek word αργον meaning " lazy " or " the inactive one ", a reference to the fact that the element undergoes almost no chemical reactions.

They named the element " astatine ", a name coming from the great instability of the synthesized matter ( the source Greek word αστατος ( astatos ) means " unstable ").

The author's name " indicates the status of the discourse within a society and culture ", and at one time was used as an anchor for interpreting a text, a practice which Barthes would argue is not a particularly relevant or valid endeavor.

In Arabic translations, his name has appeared as Abdullah ( عبدالله الحظرد ): Arabic حظر = " he fenced in ", " he prohibited ".

However Abdul is a common Arabic prefix meaning " Servant of the " and " Al " is Arabic for " the ", and if " hazra " means " he prohibited ", " he fenced in " or " Great Lord ", then the name would mean " Servant of the Prohibited ", " Servant of the Fenced in ", or " Servant of the Great Lord " which would make sense considering his role, even if it is not a proper Arabic name.

It seems to me now, in a long backward glance, that many of the Hetman's conceits and odd actions -- together with his grim posture when brandishing the hatchet in the name of Mr. Hearst -- were keyed with the tragedy which was to close over him one day.

Much more important is to grasp the feelings of the narrator ( whose full name is never given ) as he becomes aware of the disorganized and bewildered mass of French prisoners clustered together in a temporary prison camp in and around the cathedral of Chartres.

In the early 1950's, Smith, together with his distinguished colleague, George Trager ( so austerely academic he sometimes fights his own evident charm ), and a third man with the engaging name of Birdwhistell ( Ray ), agreed on some basic premises about the three-part process that makes communication: ( 1 ) words or language ( 2 ) paralanguage, a set of phenomena including laughing, weeping, voice breaks, and `` tone '' of voice, and ( 3 ) kinesics, the technical name for gestures, facial expressions, and body shifts -- nodding or shaking the head, `` talking '' with one's hands, et cetera.

Based on phylogenetic research, the latest ( 2009 ) revision of the APG classification groups together these three families under the conserved name of Amaryllidaceae.

By Caracalla's time the name Alemanni was being used by cantons themselves banding together for purposes of supporting a citizen army ( the " war bands ").

In later Assyrian and Babylonian texts, the name Akkad, together with Sumer, appears as part of the royal title, as in the Sumerian LUGAL KI. EN. GIR < sup > KI </ sup > URU < sup > KI </ sup > or Akkadian Šar māt Šumeri u Akkadi, translating to " king of Sumer and Akkad ".

The full name of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer is The Book of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church according to the use of the Church of England together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches and the form and manner of making, ordaining, and consecrating of bishops, priests, and deacons.

The common name " columbine " comes from the Latin for " dove ", due to the resemblance of the inverted flower to five doves clustered together.

In linguistics, a collective noun is the name of a number ( or collection ) of people or things taken together and spoken of as one whole.

Westermann's comparative work, begun in 1911, initially brought together much of today's Niger – Congo and Nilo-Saharan language phyla under the name Sudanic languages.

The Gang of Nine was the informal name given to the consortium of personal computer manufacturing companies who came together in 1988 to create the EISA bus.

A football team is the collective name given to a group of players selected together in the various team sports known as football.

Robinson had always had top billing over Bogart in their previous films together but for this movie, Robinson's name appears to the right of Bogart's, but placed a little higher on the posters, and also in the film's opening credits, to indicate Robinson's near-equal status.

The greatest innovation of Linnaeus, and still the most important aspect of this system, is the general use of binomial nomenclature, the combination of a genus name and a second term, which together uniquely identify each species of organism.

Long after both Niggle and Parish have taken their journeys, the lovely field that they built together becomes a place for many travelers to visit before their final voyage into the Mountains, and it earns the name " Niggle's Parish.

During that period, MacKaye and Nelson put together a studio-only project called Skewbald / Grand Union ; in a reflection of the slowly increasing disagreements between the two musicians, they were unable to decide on one name.

Eiffel will automatically join features together, if they have the same name and implementation.

This critique associated his name, together with that of Edmund Phelps, with the insight that a government that brings about greater inflation cannot permanently reduce unemployment by doing so.

The name " methodist " was a pejorative name given to a small society of students at Oxford who met together between 1729 and 1735 for the purpose of mutual improvement, given because of their methodistic habits.

The official name of the territory, Nouvelle-Calédonie, could be changed in the near future due to the accord, which stated that " a name, a flag, an anthem, a motto, and the design of banknotes will have to be sought by all parties together, to express the Kanak identity and the future shared by all parties.

" Future together ", as the name implies, is opposed to a racial vision of New Caledonian society, which divides into opposing camps Melanesians native inhabitants and European settlers, and is in favor of a multicultural New Caledonia, better reflecting the existence of large populations of Polynesians, Indonesians, Chinese, and other immigrants.