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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