place namesakes, etc

This might be interesting topic.
1. Places and/or peoples with same names (namesakes).
2. Different names for same place/people.
(3. Persons/gods with same names.
4. Different names/titles/epithets for same person/gods.)

1. Places and/or peoples with same names (namesakes).

Albania (Dinaric/Illyria), Albania/Albany/Alba/Alpin / DrumAlban (Scotland), Albania (Caucasia), Albion (England/Britain), Alps/Alpine (Switzerland), *dunon Alborum (castellum Guinnion), St Alban's (Verulam), Albany (New York), Albany (Western Australia), Albion (Sidney), albino (pigmentless), New Albion (Drake, Plowde, NY), Albionora (Canada), Southern Alps (NZ), Alba (Rome/Latium/Italy)? [Compare Laban? Lebanon?]

Atlantis; Atlas Mtns (nw Africa); Atlantic Ocean; Atlanta (Georgia);

Amsterdam; New Amsterdam (New York);

Africa (continent); Africa (Tunisia); Afrikaans/Afrikaner (Boers); Afro-Americans; Afro-asiatic; Australopithecus Africanus. [Possibly compare Afars? Avaris? Havilah? Ophir?]

Avalon (Arthurian); Avalon (in Lower Hutt in NZ);

Avon (sw England); Avondale (in Auckland in NZ);

Barbarians, Berbers/Barbary, Barbarosa.

Babel/Babylon(ia) (Iraq), "Babylon" (Rome in Bible); Babylon 5 (Sci Fi).

Boston (USA); Boston (east England);

Bohemia/Boii; Bavaria/Boii; [Bohemian (Gypsy)?]

Bath (Severn); Baden (Germany);

Bereby (Portchester); Bere (Reculver);

Baalbek (Lebanon/Syria), "Baalbek ofthe New World" (Tiahuanaco).

Great Britain/Britons (UK), Dumbarton (Scotland), Brittany/Breton (France), New Britain (Pacific), Cruithne. [Name confuonded with Brutti (Calabria, Italy), Brutus (Rome). Compare Santa Maria de Bretona (Galicia)? Waddell compared name with Bharata (India).]

Kent/Canterbury (Kent), Canterbury (NZ).

Carthage (Tunisia), new Carthage (Spain)

Caerleon (South Wales), Caerleon (Chester), legio 2 Augusta (Rutupi/Richborough); city of the legion (Nennius), legion at York but it was not called by name legion.

Caerwent (Wales); Caerwent (Norfolk); [related to Winchester.]

Colombia (South America), Columbia (USA in Latin American), Columbia (space shuttle), Washington DC (USA), British Columbia (Canada), Colombo (Sri Lanka)?

Cambria/Cymric (Wales), Cumbria/Cumberland (England/Scotland), Cimbri (German/Celt)? Cimmerians? Gomer? [Possibly compare Humber/Northmberland? Umbrian (Italy)? Ambrones?]

China, cina (Tibet), Indo-China, Chinatown, Tachin, Cochin-China, Sinitic, Sino-Tibetan.

Dutch, Deutsch, Teutonic, Teutoberg, Tuisco.

Camlodunum (Colchester); Camulodunum (Slack);

Denmark/Danes; Danelaw;

Edinburgh (Scotland), Edinburgh Hill (Dover), Dunedin (NZ) ; Eidyn 1 (2nd battle, Pa Gur), mynydd Eidyn / Eidyn 2 (6th battle, Pa Gur), din Eidyn (Y Gododdin). [Not related to Eden of Bible.]

Edwinstowe (Sherwood/Nottingham), Edinburgh (Scotland)?

Egypt/Coptic (UAR, Africa), Gypsies (Europe).

Eternal City (Rome), Eternia (Masters of  the Universe), Hwinaymarka "eternal city" (Titicaca).

England; New England; East Anglia; Anglesey; Angles (Denmark);

Erythrean sea (Suez/Red sea/Indian Ocean); Erythrea (island/sea, Atlantic, Strabo);

France; Franconia; Frankfurt; Ile de France; Ferenghi; New France; French Community.

Galicia (Spain/Portugal), Galicia (Poland). [Related to Gallic/Gaul, Galatia? Galloway?]

Georgia (Caucasia), Georgia (USA), St George (England)

Glen river (Northumberland), Glen river (Lincoln), Glynde ("glen house", Sussex).

Greece; Magna Grecia;

Gihon (Eden); Gihon (Euphrates); Gihon (Nile); Gihon (Jerusalem); "Gihon" (Ganges). [Ceyhan?]

Hampshire (Solent), New Hampshire (USA), Northamptonshire (Essex), [Norhamshire (Northumbria)?]

Hawaii (Polynesia/USA), Avaiki-tautau (NZ), Hawaiki (unceratin location homeland of Maoris/Polynesians), Savaii (Samoa), .... [Brunner claims it is related to Java? Lochore claimed related to Sabian. Some claim related to Hindu name Avaiki or Sindhava.]

Holyland (Palestine/Israel); Hel(i)goland (North Sea)?

Iberia (Spain), Iberia (Caucasia/Georgia). [Possibly related to Hibernia/Eire?]

India/Indus/Hindu/Sind (South Asia), American Indians (Americas), West Indies (Caribbean), "Indians" (Maoris), India Vawr ("Israel"), Indonesia / East Indies (South East Asia), Indo-China (South East Asia), Indo-European (Aryan/Indo-Germanic), Indo-Iranian / Indo-Afghan, Indian Ocean, Indiana (USA).

Iran/Aria (Persia), Indo-Iranian, Irano-Afghan, Aryana-vaejo (uncertain location northern homeland of Iranians/Aryans), Arya/Aryavarta (India), an-arya (Dasyus), Aryan (Indo-European/Nazi). [Some claim related to Eire/Ireland?]

Ithancester (Lincoln), Ithancester (Othona).

Jerusalem/Salem (Israel), New Jerusalem (Axum/Ethiopia), "New Jerusalem" (some give name to New York area), New Jerusalem (Heaven). [Name related to Solomon Islands.]

Kadesh (Syria); Kadesh (Jerusalem);

lomond & lemanis (related acc to Jackson)

Loxley (sW Yorks); Loxley (Staffs/Warwicks);

Lud (Shem); Ludim (Ham);

London (Middlesex), Lund (Scandinavia), "Laodicea" (Bible)? [compare Lu(n)danbyrig (Othona)? Lodonesia/Lothian? Lugdunum?]

Linnuis (HB); lindum (Damnoni, Coritani); Lincoln(shire)/Lindsey; Lindisfarne island; Lindsey (Suffolk); Lindsay (Lothian); [Dublin.]

Laodicea (Asia Minor); Laodicea (Syria?) ["Laodicea" (London?)]

Moravia (Czechoslovak), Moravian (Hussites), Moravia/Moray/Mureif (Scotland)

Memphis (Egypt), Memphis (USA). [Maybe compare caer Membyr? Membij/Bambyce (Carchemish)? Mempricius?]

Mongolia; Moghuls (India);

Mona (Anglesey); Mona (Isle of Man);

Nigeria; Niger; Negrone (Urus, Titicaca)? Negroes/niggers (USA); Nicaragua.

Orientis (Levant); Oriental (Chinese); Orient (Napoleon)

Philadelphia (USA); Philadelphia (Asia Minor);

Picts (Scotland); Picardy?

Phoencia; Punic;

Rhos (Wales); Melrose/Meilros (Lothian);

Rome (Italy), Little Rome (Trnava, Blaj, Birmingham, Brookland, Negombo, Asmara, Shefa-'Amr, Lipa, Vadakkankulam/Romapuri), 2nd Rome (Byzantium/Constantinople), 3rd Rome (Moscow), 2nd Rome (Caerleon / urbs legionis / city of the legion), Romania/Rumania, Rum (Turkey), Rumelia (Bulgaria), Romansch (Switzerland), Peruvian Rome / Little Rome of the Americas / Great Rome / Roma de America (seven mountains, Juli, Peru). I think Lugdunum has also been called Little Rome? Romiith? Rom (Space knight)? [Not related to Romany (Gypsies)? Romney (Kent/Sussex)? Ruoihm (Thanet)? Rom/Romt/Rot (Egyptian)?]

Russia (USSR/CIS), White Russia / Belorus (CIS), Ukrainian / Little Russian / Ruthenian (CIS), Rus (Varangians), Ruotsi (Swedish rowers)? [Borussian/Prussian?] Rosh (Magog)?

Rosh (Gog/Magog), Rostau/Rosetta (Egypt), Rastafari (Ethiopia)?

Rhodes (Aegean); Rhodesia (Zimbabwe/Zambia).

Stonehenge (Salisbury), Gobekli Tepe called "Turkish Stonehenge", [Tiahuanaco? Callanish? Mystery Hill and Gilgal area also compared with SH though not named.]

Siam (Thailand), "Siam" (China).

Snowdon (N Wales), Snowdown (Kent), "Snowdon" (Stirling).

San Diego (USA); Santiago (Chile); Santiago de Compostela (Galicia).

Scotland (Caledonia); Scotia (Ireland); Nova Scotia (Canada); Scotland Yard. [Some relate it to Scythians.]

Slavs/Slavic; Slave Coast; Slavonia (Croatia); Slovenia; slut/slattern; Slovakia? Yugoslavia. [Compare Liberia "freed slaves". Compare Serbia, Sorb, serf. Compare thrall, theow; wardum "slaves".]

Troy (Asia Minor), New Troy (London), Troy (NY, USA), Troja (Asgard)? Wrongly supposedly related to Toija (Finland). [Compare Troyes (France)?]

Thebes (Egypt), Thebes (Greece).

Tribruit 1 (1st battle Pa Gur), Tribruit 2 (7th battle Pa Gur) = Tribruit (7th battle site, Nennius).

Turks; Turkey; Turkmenistan; Turkestan;

Venice (Italy), Venezuela (South America), Veneti (Gaul). [Compared by some with Phoenician.]

Washington state (USA), Washington DC (USA), the Wash (England).

Wales/Welsh/walnut (Britain), New South Wales (Australia), Wallachia (Rumania), Walloons (Belgium), West Wales (Cornwall), Galloway?

White House (Washington DC), Whithorn "white house" (Galloway), Hwiterne "white house" (ASC, possibly Dover/Guinnion). [Some say Wight related. Also compare Whitby, Wissant (France/Belgium), LaVey's Black House, and Whitechapel (London).]

Witham (Lincs); Witham (Essex);

Weald (Kent); weald (Brunanburh);

Watling Street; "Watling Street" (Geste);

Yemen (S Arabia); Yaminites (Mari); Benjam(in)ites;

Yarmouth (Wight/Hants); Great Yarmouth (Norfolk) (supposed to be different roots);

Zealand (Netherlands/Holland); New Zealand; Sealand(s) (Babylonia); Sealand (off Norfolk/Suffolk coast);



Edited by Arthur-Robin - 27-Nov-2017 at 11:40

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