Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

His name became synonymous with cold-blooded cruelty.

The region became a province of the Roman Empire, with the same name Asia.

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.

In the late 1920s, Heigo became a benshi ( silent film narrator ) for Tokyo theaters showing foreign films, and quickly made a name for himself.

There, Aaron gained a name for eloquent and persuasive speech, so that when the time came for the demand upon the Pharaoh to release Israel from captivity, Aaron became his brother ’ s nabi, or spokesman, to his own people ( Exodus 7: 1 ) and, after their unwillingness to hear, to the Pharaoh himself ( Exodus 7: 9 ).

On his accession, Antoninus ' name became " Imperator Caesar Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Augustus Pontifex Maximus ".

It became an independent degree-granting institution in 1975 under the name École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales ( EHESS ).

Rebuilt by the emperor Justin I after an earthquake in the 6th century, it became Justinopolis ( 525 ); but the old native name persisted, and when Thoros I, king of Lesser Armenia, made it his capital early in the 12th century, it was known as Anazarva.

A notorious murder scandal, the Overbury case, threw up two imperfect anagrams that were aided by typically loose spelling and were recorded by Simonds D ' Ewes: ' Francis Howard ' ( for Frances Carr, Countess of Somerset, her maiden name spelled in a variant ) became Car findes a whore, with the letters E hardly counted, and the victim Thomas Overbury, as ' Thomas Overburie ', was written as O!

In 1827 Ampère published his magnum opus, Mémoire sur la théorie mathématique des phénomènes électrodynamiques uniquement déduite de l ’ experience ( Memoir on the Mathematical Theory of Electrodynamic Phenomena, Uniquely Deduced from Experience ), the work that coined the name of his new science, electrodynamics, and became known ever after as its founding treatise.

Lucius ’ name was changed to Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus and he became Claudius ’ s adopted son, heir and recognised successor.

Originally a cupbearer ( Rabshaqe ) to a king of Kish with a Semitic name, Ur-Zababa, Sargon thus became a gardener, responsible for the task of clearing out irrigation canals.

The Empire in 1180 A. D when Alexios II became EmperorOn Manuel's death in 1180, Maria, who became a nun under the name Xene, took the position of regent ( according to some historians ).

When it became apparent that Johnson would lose his seat, an effort began by ally George W. Jones to put forward Johnson's name for governor.

In 1968, UBBTS became a Bible and junior Christian liberal arts college, and in 1970 the name was changed to Atlantic Baptist College ( ABC ).

Ares was acquitted, and this event is supposed to have given rise to the name Areopagus ( or Hill of Ares ), which afterward became famous as a court of justice.

Amongst those who patronized the old man was the patrician family Falier of Venice, and by this means young Canova was first introduced to the senator of that name, who afterwards became his most zealous patron.

Peter Lombard ( died 1160 ) is the first writer known to have used the term, which did not become the usual name in the West till towards the end of the twelfth century, and never became current in the East.

In 1953 Sweet Adelines became an international organization, although it didn't change its name to Sweet Adelines International until 1991.

Angus was historically a county ( known officially as Forfarshire from the 18th century until 1928, when it reverted to its ancient name ) until 1975 when it became a district of the Tayside Region.

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

The river later became, in Welsh, Gafenni, and the town's name became Abergavenny, meaning " mouth of ( Welsh: Aber ) the Gavenny ( Gafenni )".

It is an Ethiopian name of the Ge ‘ ez script, ’ ä bu gi da, taken from four letters of that script the way abecedary derives from Latin a be ce de.

In some places of Brazil people would call capoeira as playing Angola and, according to Mestre Noronha, the Capoeira school Centro de Capoeira Angola Conceição da Praia, created in Bahia, already used the name Capoeira Angola illegally in the beginning of the 1920 decade.

Crankshafts were also described by Konrad Kyeser ( d. 1405 ), Leonardo da Vinci ( 1452 – 1519 ) and a Dutch " farmer " by the name Cornelis Corneliszoon van Uitgeest in 1592.

The perspective in his paintings has influenced famous painters such as Piero della Francesca, Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci, to name a few.

" He also appears in a bigger role in the novel of the same name, appointing the main character Ezio Auditore da Firenze as a counselor and allying himself with the Assassin Order.

The name " Tristan da Cunha " is also used for the archipelago, which consists of the following islands:

" Viola da Gamba " also appears as a name appended to a spoof letter-to-the-editor in the first issue of National Lampoon magazine ( April 1970 ).

* March 15 – In Brazil, the Estado da Guanabara ( State of Guanabara ) merges with the state of Rio de Janeiro, under the name of Rio de Janeiro.

João da Nova discovered Ascension in 1501 and Saint Helena in 1502 ; Tristão da Cunha was the first to sight the archipelago still known by his name 1506.

* 1506 — Tristão da Cunha discovered the island that bears his name.

With Christmas pending, da Gama and his crew gave the coast they were passing the name Natal, which carried the connotation of " birth of Christ " in Portuguese.

As a result, John III decided to appoint Vasco da Gama himself to replace Menezes, confident that the magic of his name and memory of his deeds might better impress his authority, and manage the transition to a new government and new strategy.

There are three Vasco da Gama class frigates in total, of which the first one also bears his name.

On the old townhall a Latin inscription is still visible: Montes argentum mihi dant nomenque Tridentum (" Mountains give me silver and the name of Trento "), attributed to Fra ' Bartolomeo da Trento ( died in 1251 ).

According to Losada, the name came from Portuguese explorers, the sailors of Vasco da Gama in India, who first brought them to Europe.

A citadel known as the Rocca Paolina, after the name of Pope Paul III, was built, to designs of Antonio da Sangallo the Younger " ad coercendam Perusinorum audaciam.

The origin of the designation Acadia is credited to the explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano, who on his 16th century map applied the ancient Greek name " Arcadia " to the entire Atlantic coast north of Virginia.

An example would be Diziet Sma, whose full name is Rasd-Coduresa Diziet Embless Sma da ' Marenhide:

( The usual formation is dam ; da is used in Sma's name because the house name begins with an M, eliding an awkward phoneme repetition.

Following the advice of Giovanni da Procida ( a famous citizen of that time ), King Manfred of Sicily, Frederick II's son, ordered a dock that still now has his name, to be built.

Costa was born in Porto with the name Gabriel da Costa.

Vasco da Gama's companion Tomé Lopes reasoned that Ophir would have been the ancient name for Great Zimbabwe in Zimbabwe, the main center of sub-African trade in gold in the Renaissance period — though the ruins at Great Zimbabwe are now dated to the medieval era, long after Solomon is said to have lived.