Toponímia (do gregos τόπος, "lugar", e ὄνομα, "nome", significando, portanto, "nome de lugar") é a divisão da onomástica que estuda os nomes geográficos ou topônimos, ou seja, nomes próprios de lugares, da sua origem e evolução; é considerada uma parte da linguística, com fortes ligações com a história, arqueologia e a geografia.

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Toponymy. Lunenburg was named in 1753 after the Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg who had become King George II of Great Britain. The Acadian inhabitants of the site had called it Mirliguèche, a French spelling of a Mi'kmaq name of uncertain meaning. An earlier Mi'kmaq name was āseedĭk, meaning clam-land. History. The Mi'kmaq lived in a territory from the present site …

Toponymy. The English name Holywood comes from Latin Sanctus Boscus 'holy wood'. This was the name the Normans gave to the woodland surrounding the monastery of St Laiseran, son of Nasca. The monastery was founded by Laiseran before 640 and was on the site of the present Holywood Priory.The earliest Anglicised form appears as Haliwode in a 14th-century document.

Monterey Bay is a bay of the Pacific Ocean located on the coast of the U.S. state of California, south of the San Francisco Bay Area and its major city at the south of the bay, San Jose. San Francisco itself is further north along the coast, by about 75 miles, accessible via Highway 1 and Highway 280.. Santa Cruz is located at the north end of the bay, and Monterey is on the …

Cherbourg-Octeville (French: [ʃɛʁbuʁ ɔkt(ə)vil] (); Norman: Chèrbourg, Tchidbouo) is a former commune and subprefecture located at the northern end of the Cotentin peninsula in the northwestern French department of Manche.It was officially formed when the commune of Cherbourg absorbed Octeville on 28 February 2000, and was merged into the new commune …

Toponymy. The first part of the name of the province of Languedoc-Roussillon comes from the French langue d'oc ("language of oc "), and is also a historical region.In southern France, the word for yes was the Occitan language word oc.Prior to the 16th century, the central area of France was referred to as Languedoil, there the word for yes was oil in Old French, later …

Anglet (French: ; Occitan: , Basque: Angelu) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of southwestern France.. Anglet lies in the traditional province of Labourd of the Northern Basque Country while its inhabitants have traditionally spoken Gascon ().. The inhabitants of the commune are known as Angloys or Angloyes (or …

Fort Pontchartrain du Détroit or Fort Detroit (1701–1796) was a fort established on the north bank of the Detroit River by the French officer Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac and the Italian Alphonse de Tonty in 1701. In the 18th century, French colonial settlements developed on both sides of the river, based on the fur trade, missions, and farms.

Wiltshire (/ ˈ w ɪ l t. ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪər /; abbreviated Wilts) is a historic and ceremonial county in South West England with an area of 3,485 km 2 (1,346 square miles). It is landlocked and borders the counties of Dorset to the southwest, Somerset to the west, Hampshire to the southeast, Gloucestershire to the north, Oxfordshire to the northeast and Berkshire to the east.