In historical times, around 300 BC it was the settlement of a Celtic tribe, the Bituriges Vivisci, who named the town Burdigala, probably of Aquitainian origin.

The fortifications, known to the British as the Spanish Lines, and to Spain as La Línea de Contravalación were the origin of modern-day town of La Línea de la Concepción.

In 104 Emperor Trajan renamed the town, which now became known as Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum, Noviomagus for short ( the origin of the current name Nijmegen ).

Annemarie Schneider, a 19-year-old secretary in a law firm in Rosenheim ( a town in southern Germany ) was seemingly the unwitting cause of much chaos and controversy in the firm, including disruption of electricity and telephone lines, the rotation of a picture, swinging lamps which were captured on video ( which was one of the first times any poltergeist activity has been captured on film ), and strange sounds that sounded electrical in origin were recorded.

Scansano is a town and comune, of medieval origin, in the Tuscan province of Grosseto, Italy.

The name of Skopje is derived from an ancient name that is attested in antiquity as Latin Scupi, the name of a classical era Greco-Roman frontier fortress town of Thracian ( Paeonian ) origin.

These pseudonyms were usually related to the soldier's place of origin ( e. g. Jean Deslandes dit Champigny, for a soldier coming from a town named Champigny ), or to a particular physical or personal trait ( e. g. Antoine Bonnet dit Prettaboire, for a soldier prêt à boire, ready to drink ).

The origin of this term is obscure, but is often explained as being derived from the expression voix de ville which means " voice of the city " or " songs of the town.

The word town shares an origin with the German word Zaun, the Dutch word tuin, and the Old Norse tun.

The origin of the name, or the reasons for naming the town Odessa, are not known.

The western part of the town immediately south of the castle retains this name, and many writers assume it is Saxon in origin, and the suffix-ham occurs in Shropshire.

The most likely origin of mayonnaise is the town of Mahon in Menorca ( Spain ), after Armand de Vignerot du Plessis's victory over the British at the city's port in 1756.

From its origin / spring runs from the southern Iberian plain in a direction east to west, to near the town of Badajoz, where it begins to track south leading to the Gulf of Cádiz.

Around the town of Madrid, an administrative territory was created known as Tiera de Madrid ( Land of Madrid ), the origin of the province that included the areas of the current municipalities of San Sebastián de los Reyes, Corbeña, Las Rozas de Madrid, Rivas-Vaciamadrid, Torrejón de Velasco, Alcorcón, San Fernando de Henares, and Griñón.

His home town is unknown, assuming that his name does not refer to his place of origin.

Until the establishment of Greater Sochi in 1961, it was administered as a separate town, which had its origin in an ancient Sadz village and a medieval Genoese trading post.

Here we shall write and we shall begin the old stories, the beginning and the origin of all that was done in the town of the Quiché, by the tribes of the Quiché nation.

Isleworth () is a small town of Saxon origin sited within the London Borough of Hounslow in west London, England.

The park is a peninsula of volcanic origin, covered largely by rainforest ; the maximum elevation is 267 m. The nearest major town is Mackay, about 40 km to the southeast.

The railroad was completed as far as the town of Hamptonville ( now Friant ) on the banks of the San Joaquin River, just from its point of origin in Fresno.

The origin of the name Coachella is unclear, but in 1901 the citizens of Woodspur voted on a new name for their community ; at their town hall meeting, the homeowners settled on " Coachella ".

The precise origin of the name of the town is not known for certain.

The very first settlement of European origin in present-day Salem ( then part of the town of Montville ) was deeded in 1664.

The origin of the name Palm Springs North is due to the large amount of natural springs on which the town sits, giving life to the many different species of animal and fish that reside in its lakes, as well as a large abundance of thriving vegetation.

The origin of the town name excites considerable speculation, but conventional wisdom holds that Ellijay is an Anglicized form of a Cherokee word, perhaps meaning " place of green things " or " many waters.

The origin of this sayin' was credited to a saloonkeeper by the name of Luke Murrin.

`` Such a vicious statement can only have its origin in the desire of a new political candidate to try to make his name known by condemning a man of world stature.

The name of Apollo's mother Leto has Lydian origin, and she was worshipped on the coasts of Asia Minor.

The name comes from earlier Afrikaans and means " earth pig " or " ground pig " ( aarde earth / ground, varken pig ), because of its burrowing habits ( similar origin to the name groundhog ).

Various theories exist regarding the origin of the name itself.

In the absence of other evidence to show the origin of these curious relics of antiquity the occurrence of a name known as Basilidian on patristic authority has not unnaturally been taken as a sufficient mark of origin, and the early collectors and critics assumed this whole group to be the work of Gnostics.

Another monument near Jerusalem ( not the modern " Absalom Tomb "-" Yad Avshalom " which is of later origin ) was erected by Absalom in his lifetime to perpetuate his name ():

A cadastral survey seems also to have been instituted, and one of the documents relating to it states that a certain Uru-Malik, whose name appears to indicate his Canaanite origin, was governor of the land of the Amorites, or Amurru as the semi-nomadic people of Syria and Canaan were called in Akkadian.

Little is known of Andreas Capellanus's life, but he is presumed to have been a courtier of Marie of Troyes, and probably of French origin ; he is sometimes known by a French translation of his name, André le Chapelain.

There are various accounts concerning the origin of the settlement's name ; one states that Allen and Rumsey decided to name it for their wives, both named Ann, and for the stands of burr oak in the of land they purchased for $ 800 from the federal government at $ 1. 25 per acre.

The name, origin, birth date, and occupation were released by the FBI, but the picture was not of him.

There is some doubt as to the origin of the name ; but most probably it is derived from a collection of Alexandrine romances, collected in the 12th century, of which Alexander the Great was the hero, and in which he was represented, somewhat like the British Arthur, as the pride and crown of chivalry.

The origin of the name is a mystery but is believed to be aboriginal.

* Anemoi, for the ancient origin of the name of this technology

The name Accrington appears to be Anglo-Saxon in origin.

The origin of the latter name is speculative.

The origin of the name Berlin is unknown, but it may have its roots in the language of West Slavic inhabitants of the area of today's Berlin, and be related to the Old Polabian stem berl -/ birl-(" swamp ").

There are several theories concerning the origin of the name banjo.

It is the most widely copied Old English poem, and appears in 45 manuscripts, but its attribution to Bede is not absolutely certain — not all manuscripts name Bede as the author, and the ones that do are of later origin than those that do not.

The origin of the tribal name is uncertain.

His mother, Paula ( born Paula Voit ), had German as a mother tongue, but was ethnically of " mixed Hungarian " origin: Her maiden name Voit is German, probably of Saxon origin from Upper Hungary ( Since 1920 in Czechoslovakia, since 1993 in Slovakia ), though she spoke Hungarian fluently.