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The name of the city was transformed in subsequent legends concerning Thomas, which were consolidated into the Historia Trium Regum ( History of the Three Kings ) by John of Hildesheim ( 1364 – 1375 ), into " Silla ", " Egrisilla ", " Grisculla ", and so on, the name having undergone a process of metamorphosis similar to that which transformed “ Vindapharnah ” ( Gondophares ) to “ Caspar ”.
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It was inspired by the English garden city movement ; hence the original English name Park ( in the Catalan language spoken in Catalonia where Barcelona is located, the word for " Park " is " Parc ", and the name of the place is " Parc Güell " in its original language ).
In 1080, he conquered the kingdom of Tlemcen ( in modern-day Algeria ) and founded the present city of that name, his rule extending as far east as Oran.
* Cyme, who gave her name to the city of Cyme ( Aeolis )
* Smyrna, who obtained possession of Ephesus and gave her name to a quarter in this city, as well as to the city of Smyrna
The new settlement took the name of Amphipolis ( literally, " around the city "), a name which is the subject of much debates about lexicography.
Thucydides claims the name comes from the fact that the Strymon flows " around the city " on two sides ;< ref >
Antwerp is the name of a city, a district and a province in Flanders, Belgium:
Ahhiya ( wa ) has been identified with the Achaeans of the Trojan War and the city of Wilusa with the legendary city of Troy ( note the similarity with early Greek Wilion, later Ilion, the name of the acropolis of Troy ).
On 4 November 2003, voters approved a greenbelt plan under which the city government bought development rights to pieces of land adjacent to Ann Arbor to preserve them from sprawling development .< ref name =" greenbelt ">
The earliest use of the place name was in 1248 ( in the form Arowe ), and probably referred to the settlement in the area before the founding of the city.
The city was known as Afyon ( opium ), until the name was changed to Afyonkarahisar by the Turkish Parliament in 2004.
* The partly ruined fortress which has given the city its name
Axayacatl ( ( the name means " Water-mask " or " Water-face ") was the sixth Aztec Emperor, a ruler ( tlatoani ) of the Postclassic Mesoamerican Aztec Empire and city of Tenochtitlan, who reigned from 1469 to 1481.
The centre of this cult was in uten-ha / Sa-ka / Cynopolis, a place whose Greek name simply means " city of dogs ".
The city grew along the valleys of the rivers Alcoa and Baça, from which it derives its name.
The city dates back at least to the 10th century when it was known by its first Latin name of Alavarium, literally, " a gathering place or preserve of birds.
The name of the city was officially changed to Istanbul in 1930 following the establishment of modern Turkey.
Thus the discovery report by the Berkeley group reads: " It is suggested that element 97 be given the name berkelium ( symbol Bk ) after the city of Berkeley in a manner similar to that used in naming its chemical homologue terbium ( atomic number 65 ) whose name was derived from the town of Ytterby, Sweden, where the rare earth minerals were first found.
One of the incidents which led to the creation of the Basel Convention was the Khian Sea waste disposal incident, in which a ship carrying incinerator ash from the city of Philadelphia in the United States after having dumped half of its load on a beach in Haiti, was forced away where it sailed for many months, changing its name several times.
The name Bourde is still the name of a river south of the city.
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That girl last night, what was her name??
For a blood-chilling ring of terror to the very sound of his name was the tool he needed for the job he'd promised to do.
No man's name brought more cheers when it was announced in a rodeo.
My lovely caller -- Joyce Holland was her name -- had previously done three filmed commercials for zing, and this evening, the fourth, a super production, had been filmed at the home of Louis Thor.
Her name was L'Turu and she told me many things.
Bill Doolin's ambition, it appeared, was to carve out his name with bullets alongside those of Jesse James and Billy the Kid, and Bill Tilghman had sworn he would stop him.
Miss Langford ( her first name was Evelyn ) was an attractive girl.
The difference came down to this: The Southern States insisted that the United States was, in last analysis, what its name implied -- a Union of States.
I was having lunch not long ago ( apologies to N. V. Peale ) with three distinguished historians ( one specializing in the European Middle Ages, one in American history, and one in the Far East ), and I asked them if they could name instances where the general mores had been radically changed with `` deliberate speed, majestic instancy '' ( Francis Thompson's words for the Hound Of Heaven's Pursuit ) by judicial fiat.
Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.
But neither was Lilian her baptismal name.
Though she did not then know its name, this strange new fruit was a banana.
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.
An accompanying sympathetic letter explained that inside the envelope was a name for Mrs. Coolidge's first granddaughter.
The name inside the envelope was `` Cynthia ''.
Her name was Esther Peter.
Pike was stunned by the first blast against his character, which was published in the March 4th issue of The Gazette under the name `` Vale ''.
Under Fosdick the first executive officer of the CTCA was Richard Byrd, whose name in later years was to become synonymous with activities at the polar antipodes.
I had had my name taken out of the telephone book, and this was partly because of a convict who had been discharged from Sing Sing and who called me night after night.
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72 accounts for the island's archaic name Ortygia by asserting that Zeus transformed Leto into a quail ( ortux ) in order to prevent Hera from finding out his infidelity, and Kenneth McLeish suggested further that in quail form Leto would have given birth with as few birth-pains as a mother quail suffers when it lays an egg.
The name comes from Greek Bosporos ( Βόσπορος ), which the ancient Greeks analysed as bous ' ox ' + poros ' means of passing a river, ford, ferry ', thus meaning ' ox-ford ', which is a reference to Io ( mythology ) from Greek mythology who was transformed into a cow and condemned to wander the earth until she crossed the Bosphorus where she met Prometheus.
This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.
In French, the name of Easter Pâques also derives from the Latin word but the s following the a has been lost and the two letters have been transformed into a â with a circumflex accent by elision.
The transform is often given a more specific name which depends upon the domain and other properties of the function being transformed.
In 2004 they were permanently transformed into their own entity ( keeping the same name ) but having inherited another group of five very remote tropical islands,
The word " balloon " was transformed into " zeppelin ", perhaps an exaggeration of the humour, and to Page the name conjured the perfect combination of heavy and light, combustibility and grace.
This was eventually transformed into the Latin name Vormatia that had been in use since the 6th century, which was preserved in the Medieval Hebrew form Vermayza ( ורמיזא ).
Walter Burkert considers her name a transformed doublet of Tethys.
They gave to the Quirinal its medieval name Monte Cavallo, which lingered into the 19th century, when the hill was transformed beyond all recognition by urbanization of an expanding capital of a united Italy.
The Arabic Tell el-Semak ( or Tell es-Samak, meaning " mound of the fish ") preserved and transformed this ancient name, with locals using it to refer to a coastal tell at the foot of the Carmel Mountains that contains its remains.
As the name survived throughout the Middle Ages, it transformed into a multitude of forms in the languages of Western Europe.
His mother, the Nereid goddess of sand beaches, transformed herself into a seal when she was ambushed by Aeacus, and was raped as a seal ; conceived in the rape, Phocus ' name means " seal ".
The literal meaning of the name is " swan ", and accordingly most of them ended up being transformed into swans.
The 35-year-old housewife was transformed into a businesswoman and, during the same year of her invention, the company bearing her name was established.
The name of the city came to be used in diminutive form as Tiburi instead of Tibur and so transformed through Tibori to Tiboli and finally to Tivoli.
At this time, the town took the name of Castrum Theodorici, later transformed in Château-Thierry ( Castle of Thierry, Thierry is the French or early Roman language translation of Theuderic ).
... Krens transformed the Guggenheim into one of the best-known brand name in the arts.
After Jameson suffered a near-fatal heart attack, his wife sold the Bugle to rival newspaper man Dexter Bennett, who changed the name to The DB ( either standing for Dexter Bennett or Daily Bugle ), and transformed it into a scandal sheet.
The first British recordings of skiffle were carried out by Colyer's new band in 1954, but it was the release by Decca of two skiffle tracks by Barber's Jazz Band under the name of " The Lonnie Donegan Skiffle Group " in late 1955 that transformed the fortunes of skiffle.
It is believed that a variant of his name, Elah, was transformed into Iluh and gave the old name to the Batman city.
The genus name Pandion is after the mythical Greek king Pandion of Athens and grandfather of Theseus, who was transformed into an eagle.
The first mention of the name Dedelbeccha dates from 1075, while the name Bigardis, later transformed into Groot-Bijgaarden ( in French Grand Bigard ), dates from 1110.
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