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This is a list of submitted place names in which an editor of the name is Frollein Gladys.
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Abauntza (Settlement) Basque
The name of a town and its church near Álava, Spain.
Aberdeen (Settlement) English (Rare)
A city in Scotland, stemming from the prefix aber- meaning 'river mouth', and the suffix -deen, which could possibly be referring to the rivers don and dee.
Abondance (Political Subdivision) French
Achaea (Region) Greek
Achaea or Achaia is one of the regional units of Greece. It is part of the region of Western Greece and is situated in the northwestern part of the Peloponnese peninsula. The capital is Patras which is the third largest city in Greece.
Adal Sultanate (Country) History
The Adal Sultanate, or Kingdom of Adal or Awdal, was a Muslim Somali kingdom and sultanate located in the Horn of Africa.
Adony (Settlement) Hungarian
Advent (Settlement) English
Aietxu (Settlement) Basque
The name of a town in the Basque region of Spain.
Aintzila (Settlement) Basque
Means "hill of mud" in Basque. It is the name of a town in the Basque region of France.
Aintzioa (Settlement) Basque
The name of a town in the Basque region of Spain.
Aitzaga (Settlement) Basque
Aitzuriaga (Settlement) Basque
The name of a little village near Lizoain (in the general area of Navarre) that disappeared shortly after the 13th century.
Alaki (Settlement) Tongan
Albaina (Settlement) Spanish
Albaina is a hamlet and minor local entity located in the municipality of Condado de Treviño, in Burgos province, Castile and León, Spain.
Albiztur (Settlement) Basque
Albiztur is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the north of Spain.
Alei (River) German
German transcription of the Russian Aley River.
Aleksandria (Settlement) Bulgarian
Alele (Settlement) ?
Alele is a village in Wallis and Futuna. It is located in Hihifo District on the northeast coast of Wallis Island.
Aliağa (Settlement) Turkish
Almería (Settlement) Spanish
From the name of the Spanish city. Means 'the mirror of the sea.'
Alsacia (Region) Spanish
Spanish form of Alsace (a region of France).
Altura (Settlement) Portuguese
Altzabeheti (Settlement) Basque
From the name of a town in the Basque region of France.
Altzagarate (Settlement) Basque
Altzagarate is a district of the municipality of Altzaga in Gipuzkoa.
Altzai (Settlement) Basque
From the name of a town in the Basque region of France.
Amana (Mountain) Biblical
Amarita (Settlement) Basque
Amarita is a village and city council in the municipality of Vitoria-Gasteiz in the province of Álava, Basque Country, Spain. It is included within the rural area northwest of Vitoria.
Amazon (Region & River) English, Finnish
The name of a river in Brazil, from Spanish Río Amazonas (see Amazonas).
Ameztia (Mountain) Basque
From the name of a mountain in Spain.
Amherst (Settlement) English
Name of a town in Massachusetts, and name of a college, UMass Amherst.
Amigdalia (Settlement) Greek
Greek name that means almond tree.
Amjalina (Settlement) Belarusian
Derived from the Belarusian noun амяла (amjala) meaning "mistletoe". This is the name of two villages in Belarus.
Añana (Settlement) Basque
Añana is both a valley and municipality located in the province of Álava, in the Basque Country, northern Spain.
Anboto (Mountain) Basque, Basque Mythology
A mountain in the Bizkaia province of the Basque Country. The Anboto is one of the dwellings of Mari 3, the main goddess of Basque mythology, also known as Anbotoko Dama (the lady of the Anboto).
Ancre (River) French
This is the name of a river in Picardy, France.
Andelle (River) French
The name of a river in Normandy, France.
Anden (Mountain) German
German name for the Andes mountain range.
Andorra (Country) Afrikaans, Albanian, Azerbaijani, Basque, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, German, Greek, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Luxembourgish, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, Ukrainian
The name of the country of Andorra, whose name is possibly derived from a Basque word andurrial (“shrub-covered land”), but it may come from Arabic الدرا (“the forest”) or Spanish andar (“to walk”).
Angerton (Settlement) English
Anjou (Other) English, French
From the name of the former county/duchy/province centered around the city of Angers in the Loire Valley of western France, which is in the present-day département of Maine-et-Loire. It was the cradle of the House of Plantagenet who ruled England from the twelfth century, of whom the current royal family are descendants... [more]
Anmer (Settlement) English
An Searrach (Island) Irish
Gaelic form of Serough Island.
Antarctica (Region) English
Greek for "opposite of the North".
Anzah (Settlement) Arabic
Aonia (Country) English
This was an ancient name of the country of Boeotia in Greek legend, allegedly derived from that of the hero Aon. Aonia was a region sacred to the Muses, whom the English poet Alexander Pope called the "Aonian maids".
Apaj (Settlement) Hungarian
Apaj is a village in Pest County, Hungary.
Aquitania (Region) Spanish
Aquitania was a region of Gaul inhabited by the Aquitani, a people living in Gallo-Roman times in what is now Aquitaine, France.
Arcola (Political Subdivision) Italian (Archaic)
Archaic name of Arcole.
Areni (Settlement) Armenian
The name of a village in Vayots Dzor province in Armenia, famous for the world's earliest known winery, Areni-1.
Arica (Settlement) Spanish
It is the name of province, and town in Chile. It is also the name of a town in Colombia.
Arılı (Settlement) Turkish
Arlington (Settlement) English
Three possible places called Arlington in Gloucestershire, Devon, and East Sussex.
Armorica (Country) History
Armorica or Aremorica is the name given in ancient times to the part of Gaul that includes the Brittany peninsula and the territory between the Seine and Loire rivers.
Arrington (Settlement) English
Arrington, a place in Cambridgeshire, named from an Old English byname, Earn(a), meaning ‘eagle’ + -inga- ‘people or followers of’ + tūn ‘settlement’.
Ashby (Settlement) English
Ash farm; ash settlement... [more]
Ashkelon (Settlement) Ancient Hebrew
An ancient city of southwest Palestine on the Mediterranean Sea. Inhabited as early as the third millennium bc, it was a seat of worship for the goddess Astarte.
Asika (Settlement) Indian
Asiturri (Settlement) Basque
Asiturri is a vacant town in the municipality of Esteribar, in the province of Nafarroa Garaia, in the Ibarrak region.
Atherton (Settlement) English
Placename meaning Ather's town.
Auckland (Settlement) English
The Baron Auckland and the Earl of Auckland are titles of the English nobility. The first Baron Auckland, William Eden, had the city of Auckland in New Zealand named after him. Bishop Auckland is a town in the county of Durham in Britain which has lent its name to the title... [more]
Avalbane (Settlement) Irish (Anglicized)
Anglicized form of Irish Abhaill Bhán "white orchard". This is or was the name of a township in the civil parish of Clontibret in County Monaghan, Ireland.
Aven (Settlement) Biblical
A Biblical place name meaning "vanity", "nothingness", "iniquity" and "sorrow".... [more]
Aydemir (Settlement) Bulgarian
Azotus (Settlement) Hebrew
Latinized form of Ashdod, one of the five confederate cities of the Philistines.
Baden (Settlement) German
The name of a town in Austria.
Baden-Württemberg (Political Subdivision) German
Baden-Württemberg is a state in southwestern Germany.
Badley (Settlement) English
Habitational name from Badley in Suffolk or Baddeley Green in Staffordshire, both named with the Old English personal name Bad(d)a + lēah ‘woodland clearing’.
Bajka (Settlement) Hungarian
Bajka is a village and municipality in the Levice District in the Nitra Region of Slovakia.
Baltimore (Settlement) English
Baltimore is an independent city in the state of Maryland within the United States.
Basel (Settlement) English
Bellagio (Political Subdivision) Italian
Bellagio is an Italian comune in the Province of Como. It is also the name of a hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada
Bennington (Settlement) English
Derived from the Old English personal name Beonna combined with -ing-, a connective particle denoting association, and tūn "farmstead, settlement". Bennington is a town in Bennington County, Vermont, in the United States.
Bentleigh (Settlement) English
Bergen (Settlement) Dutch, Norwegian, German
Newer form of Bjǫrgvin, a combination of Old Norse bjarg "mountain" and vin "meadow". This is the 2nd largest city in Norway.
Bermuda (Political Subdivision) English
Bernicia (Political Subdivision) Anglo-Saxon
Bismarck (Settlement) English
Bleaz (Settlement) Breton
Bocsárd (Settlement) Hungarian
Bogusza (Settlement) Polish
Meaning "of Bogusz" (as a given name or surname). It is the name of a village in southern Poland.
Boryslav (Settlement) Ukrainian
Boryslav is a city located on the Tysmenytsia River (a tributary of the Dniester), in Lviv Oblast (region) of western Ukraine. Boryslav is designated as a city of oblast significance.
Borzym (Settlement) Polish
Bouville (Settlement) French
Brione (Political Subdivision) Italian
Brixton (Settlement) English
The name of Brixton (a town in England).
Bronston (Settlement) English
Town in Pulaski County, Kentucky.
Broughton (Settlement) English
Broughton (Welsh: Brychdyn) is a district in Flintshire, Wales, close to the Wales–England border, located to the west of the City of Chester, England.
Byzantium (Settlement) Late Greek (Latinized)
Byzantium was an ancient Greek colony on the site that later became Constantinople, the capital city of the Roman/Byzantine Empire since 330 AC. From 1204 to 1261 was conquered and ruled by crusaders but Michael VIII Palaeologus reintroduced there a Byzantine dynasty... [more]
Caeo (Settlement) Welsh
Variant of Caio.
Cairns (Settlement) English
City in Australia
Caiseal (Settlement) Irish
The original Gaelic name of a town in County Tipperary, Ireland, known in the English-speaking world as Cashel. It means "stone ringfort", ultimately from Latin castellum.
Caleta (Settlement) Spanish
City name meaning ''little bay, inlet, or cove''. Most often La Caleta.
Callifae (Settlement) English
From the name of a town in ancient Italy, of uncertain origin. It was mentioned only by the Roman historian Livy, and may correspond to the village Calvisi, at the foot of the Monte Matese.
Callington (Settlement) English
Cantabria (Political Subdivision) Spanish
Caria (Region) Ancient Greek
Caria was an ancient province near the Aegean Sea in Asia Minor.
Carmay (Other) English
Celle (Settlement) German
Celle is a town and capital of the district of Celle, in Lower Saxony, Germany.
Ceylon (Country) English
Previous name of the country Sri Lanka. The name Ceylon most likely traces its roots back to the Sanskrit Sinha, meaning "lion". As lions are not native to Sri Lanka, another possible interpretation of the name is "lion-like man" or "hero".
Champagne (Region) French
French region famous for its luxury sparkling wine.... [more]
Chansen (Settlement) Thai
Chantilly (Settlement) French
From the name of a town in France near Paris, ultimately derived from the Gallo-Roman name Cantilius. The city gave its name to a type of delicate lace originally made there.
Cheldon (Settlement) English
Chiquinquira (Settlement) Spanish
the name of a town in venezuela
Claddagh (Settlement) Irish, English
The name of an ancient village in Ireland, where the tradition of the Claddagh ring developed.
Colmar (Settlement) French
Alsatian City of Colmar.
Compton (Settlement) English
Concord (Settlement) English
Corbie (Political Subdivision) French
Corsica (Political Subdivision & Island) Dutch, English, Italian, Romanian
Mediterranean island where Napoleon Bonaparte was born.
Courtaney (Settlement) English
Courtenay is a city on the east coast of Vancouver Island, in the Canadian province of British Columbia.
Cuillin (Mountain) English
The Cuillin (Scottish Gaelic: An Cuilthionn or An Cuiltheann) is a range of rocky mountains located on the Isle of Skye in Scotland.
Cwm Gwaun (Settlement) Welsh
Cwm Gwaun (English: Gwaun Valley) is a community and valley in north Pembrokeshire, Wales. The name itself is derived from Welsh cwm "valley" and gwaun "heath, moor".
Dabareh (Settlement) Biblical
Variant of Daberath used in some English Bible translations.
Darton (Settlement) English
Darton is a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley (part of South Yorkshire), on the border with West Yorkshire, England.
Daugova (River) Latgalian
Latgalian form of Daugava.
Decorah (Settlement) English
Decorah, Iowa.
Deesa (Settlement) Indian
Deira (Region) History
Deira was an area of Post-Roman Britain, and a later Anglian kingdom.
Déva (Settlement) Hungarian
City in Romania.
Digne (Political Subdivision) French (Archaic)
Digne-les-Bains, or simply and historically Digne, is a commune of France, capital of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department, and situated in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.
Doral (Settlement) English
Dover (Settlement) English
Dover is a small, but important port town in Kent, Southern England. It is derived from the Brythonic Dubrās, meaning 'water' (Modern Welsh ddwfr, 'water, tears').... [more]
Drayton (Settlement) English
Drayton is a village and civil parish in Somerset, England.
Düna (River) German
German name of the river Daugava.
Durcet (Settlement) French
It is the name of a commune in north-western France.
Dyfi (River) Welsh
River in north Wales.
Easingwold (Settlement) English
A town in North Yorkshire, England, which derives from Old English words meaning 'the forest belonging to Esa'.
Edam (Settlement) Dutch
Edrei (Settlement) Biblical
Ellesmere (Settlement) English
The name of a town in Shropshire, England, which possibly meant either "Elli's lake", "principal lake" or "eel lake". The first element may refer to the personal name Elli or to an adjoining lake or mere that was the largest of several in the neighbourhood, or could be derived from Old English ǣl meaning "eel"; the second element is Old English mere "sea, ocean; lake, pool, pond, cistern".
Elvet (Settlement) English (British)
English place name meaning "swan-stream."
Elysium (Other) Roman Mythology, Greek Mythology (Latinized)
Latin form of Greek Ἠλύσιον (πεδίον) (Elysion (pedion)) "the Elysian fields", which is of unknown origin, perhaps from pre-Greek. According to Greek - and later Roman - mythology, Elysium was a blessed and happy Afterlife where only the souls of mortals related to the gods and other heroes could be admitted... [more]
Emden (Settlement) German
A city and seaport in Northwest Germany that has existed at least since the 8th century.
Errigal (Mountain) Irish
Name of a mountain in Ireland (Errigal Mountain, near Gweedore in County Donegal, Ireland. It is the tallest peak of the Derryveagh Mountains and the tallest peak in County Donegal).
Falga (Country) Manx
Poetic Manx word for the Isle of Man.
Fano (Settlement) Italian
Fano is a town and comune of the province of Pesaro and Urbino in the Marche region of Italy.
Fernlees (Settlement) English (Rare)
Fernlees is a rural town in the locality of Gindie, Central Highlands Region, Queensland, Australia.
Fernleigh (Political Subdivision) English
Fernleigh, Nova Scotia is a residential subdivision in Fairview on Mainland Halifax within the Halifax Regional Municipality Nova Scotia on the shore of the Bedford Basin in Halifax Harbour.
Gandoh (Political Subdivision) Indian
Garston (Settlement) English
Gastonia (Settlement) English
Gastonia is the largest city and county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States.
Gelabad (Settlement) Iranian
Gerfalco (Settlement) Italian
The first element of this name is derived from Gothic gairu (gêr in Old High German) "spear", or from garva (garo in Old High German, and gearu in Anglo-Saxon) "ready, prepared." The second element is derived from Old High German falko "falcon"... [more]
Glaston (Settlement) English
This name is derived from towns scattered around Europe. There are French towns named Glaston, and it also is similar to the famous town Glastonbury Tor, the predicted location of the Holy Grail.
Glendale (Other) English
Named for the suburb in Lake Macquarie, north of Sydney, Australia. The name is Scottish in origin and is taken from two words which both mean "valley".
Glina (River & Settlement) Croatian
Godern (Settlement) German
Greenland (Country) English, Scots
Cognate of Grœnland.
Greenleigh (Settlement) English
Guernési (Island) Guernésiais
Guernésiais form of Guernsey.
Guillena (Settlement) Aragonese
Habana (Settlement) Spanish, Japanese
Spanish and Japanese form of Havana. In Spanish it is usually written with the definite article: La Habana.
Halifax (Settlement) English
Hallow (Settlement) English
Hallow is a village and civil parish beside the River Severn.
Hamm (Settlement) German
Hamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
Hanley (Settlement) English
Harrington (Settlement) English
Helka (Body of Water) Polish
Hershey (Settlement) English
A small community in Pennsylvania.
Heshmon (Settlement) Biblical Hebrew
City south of Judah, recorded in Joshua 15:27. Literal meaning, "fatness." Contextual meaning, "abundant blessing."
Hoy (Island) Scottish
The name is from the Isle of Hoy in Scotland.
Hull (Settlement & River) American, English
Icaria (Island) Greek Mythology (Latinized), Ancient Greek (Latinized)
The island where Icarus, son of Daedalus, was buried. Daedalus gave the island the name Icaria in his honor... [more]
Inca (Settlement) Catalan
Iobel (Other) ?
Sincha Samba Iobel seems to be a place in Guinea-Bissau.
Isère (Other) French
The name of a region as well as a river in France.
Isnaya (Settlement) Spanish
Isola Bella (Island) Italian (Rare)
Isola Bella (lit. 'beautiful island') is one of the Borromean Islands of Lago Maggiore in north Italy. From Italian isola meaning island, and bella meaning beautiful.
Itasca (Body of Water) English
Lake Itasca in north central Minnesota.... [more]
Jamaica (Country & Island) Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Hungarian, Malay, Norwegian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, Swedish
From Taíno Xaymaca meaning "land of wood and water" or "land of springs". This is the name of an island country in the Caribbean.
Jèrri (Island) Jèrriais
Jèrriais form of Jersey.
Jesi (Settlement) Italian
Jesi is a town and comune of the province of Ancona in Marche, Italy.
Jullié (Settlement) French
Jullié is a commune in the Rhône department in eastern France.
Jumilla (Settlement) Spanish
Jumilla is a town in southeastern Spain in the province of Murcia. The name comes from the Latin word for “reeds”.
Juula (Settlement) Estonian
Kalispell (Other) Salishan (Rare)
The name Kalispell is a Salishan (Salish) word meaning "flat land above the lake". Kalispell is also the gateway to Glacier National Park.
Kauaʻi (Island) Hawaiian
Meaning unknown. This is the fourth largest of the Hawaii Islands.
Kemecse (Settlement) Hungarian
Kenja (Country) Faroese
Faroese form of Kenya.
Keystone (Settlement) English (American)
The name of various towns in the US.
Khaladar (Other) ?
The name of a place.
Kibwa (Settlement) African
Kīlauea (Other) Hawaiian
Combination of Hawaiian , an intensifying prefix, lau "many, much", and ea "to rise, expand". This is an active volcano in the US state Hawaii, located on the island Hawai'i.
Killough (Settlement) Irish
Killough, derived from Irish Cill Locha "church of the loch", is a village and townland in County Down, Northern Ireland.
Kirley (Political Subdivision) Irish
Kuiseb (River) African
The Kuiseb River is an ephemeral river in western-central Namibia.
Kythira (Island) Greek
A place name for an island in Greece
Labëria (Region) Albanian
Labëria is a historic region that is roughly situated in southwestern Albania.
Laconia (Settlement) English
Laconia is a place in New Hampshire.
Lakari (Settlement) Urdu
Locational name, named for the town in India. The town's name is Urdu and means "wood".
Lansing (Settlement) English
The English usage is a place name originally derived from the town of Lancing in West Sussex (and which has also given names to other towns such as Lansing, Michigan and Lansing, New York). ''Lancing'' comes from the Old English personal name ''Wlanc'', meaning ''proud, imperious'', with the added suffix ''-ing'', indicating ''family of or follower of''.
Lawasa (Body of Water) Fijian
Lérida (Settlement) Spanish
Lexington (Settlement) English
A place name meaning "Leaxa's town" in Old English.
Lhotse (Mountain) Tibetan
Lhotse is the name of a mountain in Tibet. Lhotse means “South Peak” in Tibetan. ... [more]
Lideta (Settlement) African
Lidice (Settlement) Czech
Lidice is a village in the Czech Republic, which was completely destroyed by German Nazis in 1942. All people from Lidice, including over 100 children, were murdered. People and places all over the world have been named after the village to commemorate the massacre.
Liditze (Settlement) Hungarian (?)
It is a small town in Hungeria that was invaded and destroyed by the Nazi and was built again years later.
Liffey (River) Irish
The River Liffey runs through the city of Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. In poetry and mythology, the river is called Abhainn An Life, which is occasionally anglicized as 'Anna Liffey'
Lille (Settlement) French
Name of a city in France.
Lincolnia (Settlement) English
Linz (Settlement) English
From *lentos (“bend” in Proto-Celtic), describing the bend in the Danube where the original Celtic settlement was placed.
Lisza (Settlement) Hungarian
Lisa (German: Lissa; Hungarian: Lisza) is a commune located in Romania, Brașov County, in the Făgăraș area.
Lloret De Mar (Settlement) Catalan
Loch an Daimh (Body of Water) Scottish
The name of several lakes in Scotland.
Loulon (Settlement) Late Greek
Medieval name of a Byzantine fortress in Turkey‎ (near the modern village of Hasangazi), known as لولوة‎ (Lu'lu'a) in Arabic. The Scottish scholar W. M. Ramsay and other writers assumed that the name derived from Halala, the earlier name of the nearby town of Faustinopolis, but recent scholarship attributes its origin to Lolas, the Hittite name for the local mountain range.... [more]
Loxton (Settlement) English
A town in England.
Lucca (Settlement) Italian
Lucca is a city and comune in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the Serchio River, in a fertile plain near the Ligurian Sea.
Lucera (Settlement) Italian
Lucera is an Italian city in the province of Foggia in the region of Apulia, and the seat of the Diocese of Lucera-Troia.... [more]
Lucerne (Settlement) English, French
Lutecia (Settlement) Aragonese
Luxor (Other) English
Lydbrook (Settlement) English
This is a village in the Forest of Dean, Old English for "dwell by the river"
Maddicut (Settlement) English (American)
This is the name of a Massachusets town
Madeira (Island) Portuguese
Means "wood" in Portuguese. Madeira is an autonomous region of Portugal located in the Atlantic Ocean.
Magadan (Settlement) Biblical Hebrew
Derived from Hebrew מגדל (Migdal) meaning "tower"; ultimately from Aramaic מגדלא (Magdala) "elegant, great" or "tower". The King James' Version of the Bible provide the name Magdala, while some Greek manuscripts and the Revised Version provide the name "Magadan"... [more]
Marbeiia (Island) Mexican
old abandond island
Măriuța (Settlement) Romanian
Marlborough (Other) English
Originating from the name of a market town in Wiltshire. Legend has it that the Mound is the burial site of Merlin and that the name of the town, Marlborough comes from Merlin's Barrow.... [more]
Marmara (Body of Water) English (Modern, Rare)
Place name; the Sea of Marmara is the inland sea that connects the Black Sea to the Aegean Sea in Turkey.
Marsella (Settlement) Catalan
Marsella is the catalan version of the city of Marseilles. It is a place name.
Meath (Political Subdivision) Irish
Mebane (Settlement) English (Rare)
Mebane, NC
Medija (Settlement) Slovene
Melrose (Settlement) Scottish
Habitational namefor a place near Galashiels in the Scottish borders, so named from British words that were ansetors of Welsh moel 'bare', 'barren' rhos 'heath'.... [more]
Melusia (Settlement) Polish
Polish form of Melouseia.
Minska (Settlement) Latvian
Moldova (Country) Azerbaijani, Bulgarian, Danish, English, Estonian, Finnish, Georgian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Latvian, Malay, Maltese, Norwegian, Romanian, Turkish, Ukrainian
From the name of the Moldova River in eastern Romania, which is of uncertain origin and meaning. It may be from Slavic mold- meaning "spruce, fir" or *moldu meaning "tender, soft, young", from Old German molde meaning "open-pit mine", or Gothic Mulda meaning "dust, dirt"... [more]
Monterey (Settlement) English
Mykle (Body of Water) Norwegian
Mykle is a lake in the municipality of Kongsberg in Viken county, Norway.
Nahliel (Settlement) Hebrew
Nairn (Settlement) Scottish
A town in Inverness-shire, Scotland. The town is so called due to its location on the river Nairn, the name of which is probably of pre-Celtic origin.
Nandru (Settlement) Romanian
Naneli (Settlement) Indian
Nanka (Settlement) Igbo
Naperville (Settlement) English
A city in Illinois.
Narali (Settlement) Pakistani
Narela (Settlement) Indian
Nartë (Settlement) Albanian
Navan (Other) Irish
Irish place name meaning "the cave" (?)
Navarra (Region) Spanish
Navarre (Country) French
From the name of the historic Royaume de Navarre, a kingdom in the West Pyrenees mountains which is divided today between Spain and France. It is either derived from the Basque nabar, meaning "brownish" or "multicolor" (which would be a contrast with the green mountain lands north of the original County of Navarre); or from the Basque naba, "valley" or "plain", and herri, "land" or "people".
Nayland (Settlement) English
Neiel (Settlement) Biblical
Neshel (Settlement) Persian
Newport (Settlement) English
Nicosia (Settlement) English
From a French corruption of Greek Λευκωσία (Lefkosia), which is of uncertain meaning. The most probable theory states that it is derived from the Greek phrase λευκό περιουσία (lefko periousia) meaning "white estate"... [more]
Niza (Settlement) Spanish
Spanish for the city of Nice, France.
Nolita (Other) English
A neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. Derived from "NOrth of Little ITAly"123... [more]
Normandy (Political Subdivision) English (Rare)
English name for the French region of Normandie.
Noyal (Settlement) French, Breton
Oakland (Settlement) English
This is name of places in the United States and Canada (including the one in California).... [more]
Oban (Settlement) Scottish
An t-Òban in Scottish Gaelic meaning ''The Little Bay''.
Odessza (Settlement) Hungarian
Hungarian form of Odessa.
Oldany (Island) Scottish
Olika (Other) Hungarian
Hungarian form of Olyka.
Onga (Settlement) Hungarian
Orda (Other) Russian
Ordas (Settlement) Hungarian
Orissa (Settlement) Indian
The former name of the Indian state of Odisha.
Orphir (Settlement) English
Orta (River) Italian
Ostrava (Other) South American
Place name
Palmyra (Settlement) English
Palmyra is a Syrian city.
Pennsylvania (Political Subdivision) English
Name of a state in the United States, literally "Penn's woods". Penn comes from Pennaeth, the welsh word for "head" "top" and Latin silvania (from Latin silvia) "wood, forrest"... [more]
Pertek (Settlement) Turkish
Perth (Settlement) English
Phoenice (Settlement) Ancient Greek
Phoenice or Phoenike was an ancient Greek city in Epirus and capital of the Chaonians.45 It was also the location of the Treaty of Phoenice which ended the First Macedonian War,6 as well as one of the wealthiest cities in Epirus until the Roman conquest.... [more]
Pierre (Settlement) English
This is a city in South Dakota, USA. It comes from the given name Pierre.
Pompeii (Settlement) Ancient Roman
Possibly derived from the Oscan pompe "five", becoming the Latin second declension plural, pompeii. This may be because the community formerly consisted of five hamlets, or was perhaps settled by a family group (gens Pompeia).... [more]
Port Eynon (Settlement) Welsh
Portland (Settlement) American
In America, it is most likely used as a place name in reference to Portland, Oregon.
Précy (Settlement) French
Précy is a commune in the Cher department in the Centre-Val de Loire region of France.
Pudsey (Settlement) English
This name is of Anglo - Saxian origin.... [more]
Puyog (Other) Filipino
Pydar (Other) Cornish
Râca (Political Subdivision) Romanian
Rakow (Settlement) Polish
Polish Village.
Retford (Settlement) English
Retford, also known as East Retford, is a market town in the Bassetlaw District in Nottinghamshire, England, and one of the oldest English market towns having been granted its first charter in 1105
Reynosa (Settlement) Spanish
Reynosa is a border city in the northern part of Tamaulipas, Mexico. It is also the municipal seat of Reynosa Municipality.