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.

The town's name ( with the archaic spelling ) continues to form part of the title to The Royal Irish Regiment ( 27th ( Inniskilling ) 83rd and 87th and Ulster Defence Regiment ).

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.

The name Galva honors the Swedish immigrants of nearby Bishop Hill and refers to Gävle, Sweden, the town's sister city.

The town's name (" city of Peter ") honors Emperor Pedro II, the nation's second monarch and son of Pedro I.

The town's name honors Tom Douglas, an 1850s merchant.

The town's growth was facilitated by its role as the administrative and commercial centre of German East Africa and industrial expansion resulting from the construction of the Central Railway Line in the early 1900s.

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.

This council, known to have existed as early as 1317, was given the job of administering the town in its care through law and legislation, and of handling the town's revenue.

The type of political organisation existing in Poitiers during the late medieval or early modern period can be glimpsed through a speech given on 14 July 1595 by Maurice Roatin, the town's mayor.

By early 1795, however, Marat's memory had become somewhat tarnished, and on 13 January 1795, the town's name became simply Le Havre.

It is a character story about an average town's citizens in the early twentieth century as depicted through their everyday lives.

In the early 1930s, Flynn left for England, and in 1933 he secured an acting job with the Northampton repertory company at the town's Royal Theatre, where he worked for seven months.

Today it is one of the major seaside resorts in the country, known for the Apollonia art and film festival ( which takes place in early September ) that is named after one of the town's ancient names.

Since the opening of a new Sainsbury's in the early 1980s ( closed 2001 ) and, more significantly, a Tesco superstore in 1987, there has been a shift in the town's retail, predominantly charity shops, estate agents, restaurants and bars.

Strabane suffered extensive damage during the Troubles, from the early 1970s and continuing throughout much of the 1990s, with bombings and shootings commonplace: Irish Republican paramilitary groups, mainly the Provisional Irish Republican Army, regularly attacked the town's British army and Royal Ulster Constabulary ( RUC ) bases.

The town's early settlers were wealthy planters mostly from Virginia, Tennessee, the Carolinas and Georgia.

Along the town's main historic district, early businesses built many structures that still form Wickenburg's downtown area.

The town's downtown business district is on the National Register of Historic Places and largely comprises commercial structures from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The town's namesake wild peas are believed to be a product of this early farming, since it would have taken many years of preparation and cultivation to produce them.

The town was partially laid out in early 1821, and on March 3, 1822 a bill of assurrance was recorded and executed and the town's plat was laid out.

The town was close to lead mines and mining played a big part in the town's early history.

The town's name comes from Cape Mendocino, named by early Spanish navigators in honor of Antonio de Mendoza, Viceroy of New Spain.

Many of the town's early settlers were New Englanders, as was true with many older Northern California logging towns.

Primarily a residential suburb of San Francisco, Hillsborough has many mansions within the town's borders dating from the early 20th century.

It features sawmill machinery and artifacts from the town's early days

Thanks to the town's early prominence and wealth, it boasts an astonishing collection of early New England architecture.

The Kent family, for whom the town's library is named, originated in Gloucester, Massachusetts, and boasted relations to many prominent early New England families, including the New England Dwight family of Northampton, Massachusetts, the Hooker family of Hartford, the Dudleys of Guilford, Connecticut and the Leavitts of Suffield.