Another example is town of Bresegard, the ' gard ' portion of the town name derives from the Slavic word ' grad ', meaning city or town.

It is named after the town of Wicklow, which derives from the Old Norse name Víkingalág or Wykynlo.

The Irish County Kildare derives its name from the town of Kildare which originally in Irish was Cill Dara meaning the Church of the Oak or Oak Church.

The name of the town derives from the name of the river that flows through River Dour.

One derives the name from the Old Persian asmara, " stone ", " rock ", and Sogdian kand, " fort ", " town ".

The county seat of Plattsburg derives it name from a town of a similar name that is the county seat of Clinton County, New York, which was also named for the Governor.

Borough derives from the Old English word burh ( cognate with German Burg, meaning castle ), meaning a fortified and walled enclosure containing several households — anything from a large stockade to a fortified town.

The name Nantes, pronounced in French, derives from that of its pre-Roman-era inhabitants, the Gaulish tribe known as the Namnetes, who founded a town there around 70 BC.

It was named for the Wicomico River, which in turn derives from Algonquian language words wicko mekee, meaning " a place where houses are built ," apparently referring to an Indian town on the banks.

One legend states that the town derives its name from Luba, a young man credited with slaying a giant bear that had been terrifying the inhabitants.

Its name derives from a town of the Creek tribe.

There is an old coaching Inn on the Epsom Road previously called the ' Sanford Arms ', which almost certainly derives from ' Sand Ford ', so this adds weight to the suggestion that ' Guildford ' is a corruption of ' Gold Ford ', referring to the very distinctive golden sand showing on the banks of the River Wey where it cuts through the sandy outcrop just south of the town.

The county derives its name from the town of Madera, named when the California Lumber Company built a log flume to carry lumber to the Central Pacific Railroad there in 1876.

Jakova (" Abbey of Saint James "), from which the town derives its name ( opatija means " abbey " in Croatian ) is located in Park Svetog Jakova or Saint James's Park.

Another centre of worship was perhaps the town of Bitburg, near the German-Belgian border, which was called “ Beda Vicus ,” which although Latin derives from either Celtic or Germanic the ' Village of Beda.

The name derives from the 1839 Alta California land-grant that encompassed the area, which was called La Rinconada de Los Gatos, (" Cat's Corner "), where " the cats " refers to the cougars that are indigenous to the foothills in which the town is located.

Huntington Mills is a small town in northeastern Pennsylvania which also derives its name in honor of Samuel Huntington.

The town's name derives from " Cathedral Canyon " to the south of the town, so named in 1850 by Colonel Henry Washington because its rock formations were reminiscent of a cathedral.

The name derives from Seth Thomas, the early clockmaker, who established a factory in town in 1812.

The city is within the town of Winchester, and its name derives from the fact that it is the business center for the towns of Winchester and Barkhamsted.

According to some, the town derives its name from being a toll station on the old road between Boston and New York.

Speedway is the home of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, from which the town derives its name, and is a complete enclave of Indianapolis.

The town of Greens Fork derives its name from the Greens Fork river on which it is situated.

The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;

Though only a relatively short walk separated it from my own part of town, its character was wholly foreign to me.

I would have liked the town and the busyness of its people but I always followed Lilly into the peace of the silent and unstaring road.

The `` fruitful course '' of metropolitanization that you recommend is currently practiced by the town of East Greenwich and had its inception long before we learned what it was called.

The East Greenwich Free Library receives financial support from the town of East Greenwich and the City of Warwick to supplement its endowment.

Middletown bases its claim on the general provision of the law that `` all rateable property, both tangible and intangible, shall be taxed to the owner thereof in the town in which such owner shall have had his actual place of abode for the larger portion of the twelve ( 12 ) months next preceding the first day of April in each year ''.

The operations of its other plant in Rochdale and Leesona's former operations in Manchester were transferred to a recently acquired plant in the adjoining town of Heywood.

The 1958 town meeting directed town authorities to seek federal and state funds with which to conduct a preliminary survey of a proposed sewage plant with its attendant facilities.

Undoubtedly none of the residents realize the influence their town has had on American military history, or the deeds of valor that have been done in its name.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

He had assumed that all these buildings had been divided into apartments, but this one, from a glance at the hall furnishings, was obviously still a functioning town house, and its owners were in residence ; ;

And I've been told that just about every town, no matter what its size, has its Lucille Warren.

In The Plague, a key description of Oran occurs early, when it is explained that the town is built in such a way that it " turns its back on the bay, with the result that it's impossible to see the sea, you always have to go to look for it.

The town remained until late Byzantine times an important toll and customs station of the Hellespont, its importance thereafter being transferred to the Dardanelles, after the building of the " Old Castles " by Sultan Mehmet II ( c. 1456 ).

Caesar occupied the town first and defeated the Germans before its walls, slaughtering most of the German army as it tried to flee across the river ( 1. 36ff ).

Della Valle described Anah as the chief Arab town on the Euphrates, an importance which it owes to its position on one of the routes from the west to Baghdad ; Texeira said that the power of its amir extended to Palmyra ( early 17th century ); but Olivier found the ruling prince with only twenty-five men in his service, the town becoming more depopulated every day from lack of protection from the Arabs of the desert.

A story is told that he once painted his face green and rode through town on his bicycle in its honour ( and possibly under its influence ).

It is the seat of the Ostalbkreis district, and its largest town, as well as the largest town within the Ostwürttemberg region.