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Jan 12, 2024 · Discovering the etymological roots of the Pomeranian breed name origin leads us to the shores of historic Pomerania. The moniker, derived from the coastal region nestled by the Baltic Sea, translates to “on the sea,” mirroring the breed’s geographical origins with its nautical resonance.
- Ferdinand Bada
- Africa. This name can be attributed to the Romans who referred to what is present-day Tunisia as “Africa terra.” Africa terra can be translated to mean “land of the Afri” (plural) or “land of the Afer” (singular).
- Europe. The origins of this name come from the Latin word “Europa,” which traces its origins to the Greek language. One school of thought argues that the name traces back to ancient Greek mythology.
- Oceania. The origin of this name is fairly simple. Oceania stems from the English word “ocean” which refers to a large water body. However, it ultimately comes from the Greek word “Okeanos” which means a great water body (sea or river) surrounding the earth.
- Asia. This name comes from the word Ἀσία’ from Ancient Greek. Initially, it was used to refer to the eastern bank of the Aegean Sea but was later used to refer to the region of Anatolia.
Oct 2, 2023 · There, the rocker explained the moniker's true origin despite Steve-O saying he heard it might have come from the word Coroner or Korn's home county — Kern County, California. But no, it came from...
- Philip Trapp
- What Does “California” Mean?
- Las Sergas de Esplandián: A 16th Century Novel
- Who Was Queen Calafia?
- Don Quixote and Burned Books
- Knights and Conquistadors
- A Medieval Hero
- A Real Place
- The Barbary Coast
- The New Barbary Coast
- From Fantasy to Reality — Back
There are many of theories about where the name California comes from. Some suspect that the word “California” comes from the Latin or Spanish phrases for “hot furnace” (calida fornax in Latin or caliente hornoin Spanish). One California pioneer, Josefa Carrillo de Fitch, was convinced that California was an indigenous word. When interviewed about ...
While it is difficult to verify Josefa’s theory, the most widely accepted origin of the name California comes from a Spanish novel written in the 16th century, Las Sergas de Esplandián (The Exploits of Esplandián), by Garcí Rodríguez de Montalvo. Montalvo is best known for writing one of the most popular action/adventure stories in Spain, Amadís de...
Published in Seville in 1510, before Europeans and reached the northern Pacific coast, Las Sergasrecounts the adventures of a knight named Esplandián, the son of Amadís, the hero of Montalvo’s earlier novel. During an important juncture in the novel, Esplandián has to help defend the city of Constantinople. Among those assaulting the city is a grou...
According to Rose Marie Beebe and Robert Senkewicz, Montalvo was influenced by stories from Christopher Columbus and other explorers about the marvels of the New World. Chivalric or knightly novels like Amadis and Las Sergas were very popular in sixteenth-century Spain, so popular that Miguel de Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, the madness of ...
We know that Spanish conquistadors were reading books of chivalry. Bernal Diaz de Castillo, who was a soldier in Cortez’ campaign against the Aztecs, says that the first time he and his comrades saw the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, “We were amazed. We said it looked like the enchanted things they tell of in the book of Amadís.” (The True History ...
400 years before Montalvo’s novel, a very similar name appears in one of the most important epic poems of all time, the medieval Song of Roland. Montalvo surely read the Song of Roland, since his characters are all connected to the poem. The Song of Rolandtells the story of the famous king Charlemagne, and his most heroic knight Roland. As is commo...
According to an article in journal of the Historical Society of Southern California in 1923, there were a number of fortified cities located along the coast of North Africa during the Middle Ages, “some of them famed for their magnificence as well as for their strength, and the Arabic word for this type of town was kalaaor kalat…this word was used ...
According to the article, Kal-Ifrene “was the queen city of Barbary in the XI century,” which eventually fell in the middle of the twelfth century. The term “Barbary” was used to refer to the lands of the Berber people of North Africa and is what is collectively referred to today as the Magreb. Since the early middle ages privateers from the North ...
But you may also be familiar with the name “Barbary ” because it is associated with the city of San Francisco, which had a rough reputation in the 19th century. In the 1850s and 1860s the city’s notorious red light district was so dangerous that sailors referred to it as the “Barbary Coast.” If you weren’t careful, you might not make it out alive. ...
T.S. Eliot is supposed to have said, “Mediocre writers borrow. Great writers steal.” Whether or not you consider Garcí Rodríguez de Montalvo a great writer — Cervantes sure didn’t –, he seems to have taken the name California from the Song of Roland, thereby turning a real place into a land of fantasy. But isn’t that what California has always been...
Feb 2, 2024 · Many have suggested that they called it golf because all the other four letter words had been taken. But golf has not always been a four-letter word. When language was overwhelmingly a spoken construct, as not many people could read and write, words existed more as sounds than as sets of letters.
- Roderick Easdale
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