The city was referred to as " Hüdavendigar " ( meaning " God's Gift ") during the Ottoman period, while a more recent nickname is " Yeşil Bursa " ( meaning " Green Bursa ") in reference to the parks and gardens located across its urban tissue, as well as to the vast forests in rich variety that extend in the surrounding region.

The nickname " The Big Green ," originating in the 1860s, is based on students ' adoption of a shade of forest green (" Dartmouth Green ") as the school's official color in 1866.

A basin of urban ecology, Metz gained its nickname of Green City (), displaying extensive open grounds and public gardens and the historic downtown is one of the largest commercial, pedestrian areas in France.

* 1906, Lightship Reserve Sonderburg, 1988 rebuilt at Motorenwerke Bremerhaven to sailing ship Alexander von Humboldt ( nickname „ Green Alex “, because of green sails )

The colony earned the nickname Enfer Vert (" Green Hell "), which it is still trying to shake.

The city is located in Green Country, a popular nickname for northeast Oklahoma that stems from the region's green vegetation and relatively high amount of hills and lakes compared to central and western areas of Oklahoma.

The Green Monster is a popular nickname for the thirty-seven foot, two-inch ( 11. 33 m ) high left field wall at Fenway Park, home to the Boston Red Sox baseball team.

* Green Hornet, nickname for the Bell UH-1F variant of the " Huey " military utility helicopter used in Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War

Green Bay's unofficial nickname is " Titletown, USA ", for the record number of NFL championship titles ( 13 ) the Packers have won, including four Super Bowls in 1967, 1968, 1997 and 2011.

The nickname " Green Mound " ( 青塚 Qīn Zhǒng ) refers to a legend that in autumn, when grass and trees wither, those plants on the cemetery mound continue to prosper.

He murdered numerous women and girls, most of whom were also alleged prostitutes, in Washington during the 1980s and 1990s, earning his nickname when the first five victims were found in the Green River.

So proficient was he that his musician friends bestowed upon him the nickname " The Green God ".

Her grandma's name is Ida Green, and the men's affectionate nickname for her is " Spuds ".

The number of weddings at Thomas Becket increased substantially compared to earlier and later times and the village earned the later nickname of the Gretna Green of the Midlands.

As a result of the hurricane, the Westhampton Beach School District changed its school's nickname from the Green Wave to the Hurricanes.

In 1974 Penrith changed their strip to a jerseys with brown and white vertical bars and again in 1991 they changed the colours to Black with White, Red, Yellow and Green stripes ( drawing another confectionery-related nickname, The Liquorice Allsorts ) until 1997 when Super League had all new jerseys made by Nike.

Vermont not only takes its state nickname (" The Green Mountain State ") from the mountains, it is named after them.

In a publication The Green Dragoon: The Lives of Banastre Tarleton and Mary Robinson by Robert D. Bass ( published in 1952 ) he was given the nickname " Bloody Ban " and The Butcher, which has carried over into popular culture as being his nickname of the day.

Many new residents were unwelcome and existing residents moved away leading to the nickname Snob's Green.

The myriad canals are covered in green duckweed ( hence the Green Venice nickname ) and the drained marsh land is home to a varied fauna.

In addition to being the headdress of the United States Army Special Forces, " Green Berets " is also a well known nickname of the organization.

In Dean's obituary in The Times, Geoffrey Green suggested that the nickname was taken from a " Dixie " song that was in the chart during Dean's childhood as there was " something of the Uncle Tom about his features ".

Rudolph's ally, a Carolingian himself, Count Herbert II of Vermandois, took Charles captive by treachery and the young Louis's mother took the boy " over the sea " to the safety of England, hence his nickname.

Among his many pupils in Dresden was Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, the keyboardist whose name is erroneously enshrined in the popular nickname given to J. S. Bach's 1742 publication, “ Aria with Diverse Variations ”— that is, “ The Goldberg Variations .” The scholar Peter Williams has discredited the story linking the work to Goldberg, stating that J. S. Bach wrote the work for the Russian Ambassador Count Hermann Carl von Keyserlingk, who would ask his employee, Goldberg, to play variations for him to ward off insomnia.

* De Leeuw van Vlaanderen ( The Lion of Flanders, synonymous title, but also the nickname of its hero, the medieval Count Robert III of Flanders and the title of the Flemish national epic by Hendrik Conscience ).

His nickname is The Count and his walk on music is Be On Your Way by DJ Zany ..

Alexander bequeathed him some £ 2000 — a little fortune that soon disappeared in a course of splendid extravagance, which gained him the nickname of Count Combe ; and after a chequered career as private soldier, cook and waiter, he finally settled in London ( about 1771 ), as a law student and bookseller's hack.

Zhang Jiuling () ( 673 – 740 ), courtesy name Zishou ( 子壽 ), nickname Bowu ( 博物 ), formally Count Wenxian of Shixing ( 始興文獻伯 ), was a prominent minister, noted poet and scholar of the Tang Dynasty, serving as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong.

He was also known as Count Combat or Conde Koma in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, a nickname he picked up in Spain in 1908.

Supposedly Ebalus of Aquitaine, Count of Poitou and Duke of Aquitaine ( c. 870 – 935 ) had the nickname " Manzer " or " Manser ".

A similar explanation is offered also for the same nickname as used by another Prince from Occitania, Arnaud Manzer, Count of Angoulême ( born 952-died 988 / 92 ) who also was a bastard.

Born in Transylvania, his look and the droopy mustache earned him the nickname ' Count Dracula '.

The title refers to the nickname given his wife by the composer, who is also a member of the National Film Board of Canada.

During 2006, Hart teamed up with fellow Grateful Dead bandmate Bill Kreutzmann, Phish bassist Mike Gordon and former The Other Ones lead guitarist Steve Kimock, to form the Rhythm Devils, a nickname that refers to Hart and Kreutzmann's drum duets and improvisation.

The state's nickname, " The Granite State ", refers to its extensive granite formations and quarries.

Michael Quinion and Patrick Hanks argue that the term refers to the Dutch nickname and surname Janneke ( from Jan and the diminutive-eke, meaning " Little John " or Johnny in Dutch ), Anglicized to Yankee ( in Dutch, the letter " J " is pronounced the same as the English consonantal " Y " sound ) and " used as a nickname for a Dutch-speaking American in colonial times ".

" This refers to animator Robert Cannon, whose nickname was Bobo and wore big glasses.

His full name is given as Reginald Mantle, but he is usually called by his nickname Reggie, and sometimes refers to himself as " Mantle, The Magnificent.

Palmdale refers to itself with the nickname the " aerospace capital of the United States ", and has been the site of research, development, final assembly, flight testing and / or servicing / modifications of the Space Shuttle, B-1 Lancer, X-15, B-2 Spirit, F-117 Nighthawk, F-35 Lightning II, SR-71 Blackbird, Lockheed L-1011 Tristar, and many other aircraft that have been used in the United States Air Force, NASA and air forces and airlines around the world.

This nickname, Lord Haw-Haw, generally refers to William Joyce, who was German radio's most prominent English-language speaker and to whom it gradually came to be exclusively applied.

The nickname the Perfect Prince is a late description and refers to Niccolò Machiavelli's work The Prince.

However, an oracle refers to Paphlagonian as the watchdog of Athens ( Kuon or Dog, line 1023 ) and Kuon was in fact Cleon's nickname ( later exploited in the trial scene in The Wasps ).

According to Sloan's official website, the band's name refers to a friend's nickname.

The nickname " saber-tooth " refers to the extreme length of their maxillary canines.

A ' Sourdough ' is also a nickname used in the North ( Yukon / Alaska ) for someone having spent an entire winter north of the Arctic Circle and refers to their tradition of protecting their Sourdough during the coldest months by keeping it close to their body.

Throughout the series, Sisko refers to Dax by the affectionate nickname " Old Man.

In a number of books and at least one film, Bond refers to her by the nickname " Penny " ( a shortened version of her last name ).

Her nickname, " Titsie ," refers to her large breasts.

His most well-known character is known as Teflon Billy, but this was a nickname given by the group to a character originally named Black Lotus ( Black Lotus gives BL which gives Billy, and " Teflon " refers to the uncanny skill of the character at avoiding damage ).

Its name refers to New Jersey's nickname, the " Garden State.

The knight symbol refers to his namea nickname or working nameand his occupation as a champion-for-hire.

The nickname " tweed " refers to the lacquered beige-light brown fabric covering used on these amplifiers.

Silicon Forest is a nickname for the cluster of high-tech companies located in the Portland metropolitan area in the U. S. states of Oregon and Southwest Washington, and most frequently refers to the industrial corridor between Beaverton and Hillsboro in northwest Oregon.

The name Capuchins refers to the peculiar shape of the long hood ; originally a popular nickname, it has become a part of the official name of the Order, which now exists in 99 countries all over the world, with around 11, 000 brothers living in more than 1800 communities ( fraternities, friaries ).