The town's name is attested as Aisincurt in 1175, derived from a Germanic masculine name Aizo, Aizino and the early Northern French word curt ' farm with a courtyard ' ( Late Latin cortem ).

On 25 May 1824, the town plat was registered with Wayne County as " Annsarbour "; this represents the earliest known use of the town's name.

The name derives from a Brythonic word Gobannia meaning " river of the blacksmiths ", and relates to the town's pre-Roman importance in iron smelting.

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

While the town's name is generally seen as a diminutive form of Barcelona in Spain, Albert Dauzat and Charles Rostaing point out an earlier attestation of the name Barcilona in Barcelonnette in around 1200, and suggest that it is derived instead from two earlier stems signifying a mountain, * bar and * cin ( the latter of which is also seen in the name of Mont Cenis ).

Barcino Nova is the town's Latin name meaning " new Barcelona "; Barcino was the Roman name for Barcelona in Spain from its foundation by Emperor Augustus in 10 BC, and it was only changed to Barcelona in the Middle Ages.

The town's name is old as it shows the typical effects of the High German consonant shift ( b > p, t > ss ).

It has been suggested that the town's name comes from an archaic word in the Cornish " bod " ( meaning a dwelling ; the later word is " bos ") and a contraction of " menegh " ( monks ).

The town's name was changed to Columbus on March 20, 1821.

'" Morris's second documentary would be about the town and bear its name, although it makes no mention of Vernon as " Nub City ", but instead explores other idiosyncrasies of the town's residents.

The town's name comes from the Irish: Inis Ceithleann.

Since the release of the film the town of Åmål has even tried to embrace the publicity generated, despite the fact that the town's name is missing from the English title.

The town's name means " military settlement ," from Old English here-wic.

( The town's name was changed to New Harmony after the Harmonists left in 1824.

Finally, in 1838 the town's name was changed to simply Jackson.

The name Carmarthen derives from the town's previous Roman name, Moridunum.

The negative references to Nazareth in the Gospel of John suggest that ancient Jews did not connect the town's name to prophecy.

This fragment gives the town's name in Hebrew as " נצרת " ( n-ṣ-r-t ).

The town's name is the Arabic word for ' dignity ', which elevated its symbolism in the eyes of the Arab people, especially after the collective Arab defeat in 1967.

He was in London `` searching records for our town's causes '' in 1600 with young Henry Sturley, the assistant schoolmaster.

The uniform fiscal year brings the town's fiscal year into line with that of the schools, which expend the largest share of local disbursements.

Some opposition to the home rule movement started to be heard yesterday, with spokesmen for the town's insurgent Democratic leadership speaking out against the home rule charter in favor of the model municipal league charter.

William keeps up with our town's doings daily, via the Tribune, and he tells me he never misses the Ticker.

Any adjustments which are made, Mr. Grenier said earlier this month, will appear on the balance of the tax bill since most of the town's taxpayers take the option of paying quarterly with the balance due next year.

The town's other famous association is with Accrington Stanley F. C., the butt of many ( largely affectionate ) jokes.

In the strips, it is expressed that the two towns are rivals with each other and before The Dandy did a drastic format change they had an embassy in Beanotown which many of the town's citizens attempted to overrun, but failed ( the embassy had no existence in The Beano ).

The crooked town's mayor, Hiram J. Slade ( Samuel S. Hinds ), who is in collusion with Kent, appoints the town drunk, Washington Dimsdale ( Charles Winninger ), as the new sheriff, assuming that he'll be easy to control and manipulate.

The town's association with the House of Orange started when William of Orange ( Willem van Oranje ), nicknamed William the Silent ( Willem de Zwijger ), took up residence in 1572

Morris returned to Vernon in 1979 and again in 1980, renting a house in town and conducting interviews with the town's citizens.

Fort Collins gained a reputation as a very conservative city in the twentieth century, with a prohibition of alcoholic beverages, a contentious political issue in the town's early decades, being retained from the late 1890s until student activism helped bring it to an end in 1969.

The town hosts the annual Common Riding, which combines the annual riding of the boundaries of the town's common land with the commemoration of a victory of local youths over an English raiding party in 1514.

A legend first recorded in the late 16th century and reported in William Camden's Britannia accounts for the town's place-name, as ' halig ' ( holy ) and ' fax ' ( face ), by stating that the first religious settlers of the district brought the ' face ' of John the Baptist with them.

In the 2009 movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs ( film ), Mr. T provided the voice for Officer Earl Devereaux, the town's athletic cop who loves his son very much.

During the Roman period, the town's importance declined with the foundation of nearby Portus Luguidonis.

In 1871, Smith filed a claim with the federal government for the land around the buildings, and on August 20, 1873, he became the town's first postmaster.

When they arrive in Precipice, the couple have to abandon their normal " urban pattern " to see the ways in which the town's unique design merges public and private space, along with natural and artificial structures.

A flood in 1875 covered the city of Marysville and when it subsided the town's streets were filled with debris and rocks washed down from the " hydraulicking " going on upstream.

In " Gingerbread ", her home life is made clearer: Sunnydale falls under the spell of a demon who throws the town's adults into a moral panic, and Willow's mother is portrayed as a career-obsessed academic who is unable to communicate with her daughter, eventually trying to burn Willow at the stake for being involved in witchcraft ; her father is never featured.

In Estarreja in the Central region of Portugal, the town's first references to Carnival are noted in the 14th century, with " Flower Battles ", or richly decorated floats which paraded through Estarreja's streets.

and was dedicated to the goddess Sulis, whom the Romans identified with Minerva ; however, the name Sulis continued to be used after the Roman invasion, leading to the town's Roman name of Aquae Sulis ( literally, " the waters of Sulis ").

The attack on Aqaba ( one of the more stirring and memorable scenes in the film with a spectacular pan shot of dust rising up from behind the charging Arabs while Turkish cannons are aimed harmlessly out to sea ) was reconstructed in a dried river bed in southern Spain ; it consisted of over 300 buildings and was meticulously based on the town's appearance in 1917.