Latin Names of Places: Helinium, Hister, Latin Names of Cities, Latin Names of Countries, Latin Names of Islands, Latin Names of Lakes, Latin

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 30. Chapters: Helinium, Hister, Latin names of cities, Latin names of countries, Latin names of islands, Latin names of lakes, Latin names of mountains, Latin names of regions, Latin names of rivers, List of Latin place names in Africa, List of Latin place names in Asia, List of Latin place names in Britain, List of Latin place names in Continental Europe, Ireland and Scandinavia, List of Latin place names in Iberia, List of Latin place names in Italy and Malta, List of Latin place names in the Balkans, List of Roman place names in Britain, List of Roman place names in Serbia, Orbis Latinus. Excerpt: This list includes European countries and regions that were part of the Roman Empire, or that were given Latin place names in historical references. As a large portion of the latter were only created during the Middle Ages, often based on scholarly etiology, this is not to be confused with a list of the actual names modern regions and settlements bore during the classical era. Until the Modern Era, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking. During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde. These studies have, in turn, contributed to the study of genealogy. For genealogists and historians of pre-Modern Europe, knowing alternate names of places is vital to extracting information from both public and private records. Even specialists in this field point out, however, that the information can be easily taken out of context, since there is a great deal of repetition of place names throughout Europe; reliance purely on apparent connections should therefore be tempered with valid historical methodology. Latin place names are not always exclusive to one place - for example, there were several Roman cities whose names began with Colonia and then a more descriptive term. During the Middle Ages, these were often shortened to just Colonia. One of these, Colonia Agrippinensis, retains the name today in the form of Cologne. Early sources for Roman names show numerous variants and spellings of the Latin names. The modern canonical name is listed first. Sources are listed chronologically. In general, only the earliest source is shown for each name, although many of the names are recorded in more than one of the sources. Where the source differs in spelling, or has other alternatives, these are listed following the source. As an aid to searching, variants are spelled completely, and listed in most likely chronology. Superscripts indicate: In order of likel