TARAH (Settlement) BiblicalA place name (an encampment) used in some versions of the Old Testament. It is identical to the personal name
TERAH.
TATHAM (Settlement) EnglishFrom the Old English given name
TATA combined with
ham meaning "homestead". This is the name of a town in Lancashire.
TATTON (Settlement) EnglishFrom the Old English given name
TATA combined with
tun meaning "enclosure, yard, town". This is the name of a town in Cheshire.
TEHERAN (Settlement) German, Dutch, Italian, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Romanian, Croatian, SerbianForm of
TEHRAN in several languages.
TEHRAN (Settlement) Persian, EnglishFrom Persian
تهران (Tehran), meaning unknown. This is the name of the capital city of Iran.
TEMAN (Settlement) Biblical, Biblical HebrewMeans
"right hand" or
"south" in Hebrew. This is an Edomite town in the Old Testament, supposedly named for a grandson of Esau.
THAI (Country) ThaiPossibly from a Thai root meaning
"person". This is the Thai word for
Thailand, usually written in the compounds
เมืองไทย (Meueng Thaiy) meaning "region of Thailand",
ประเทศไทย (Prathet Thaiy) meaning "nation of Thailand" or
ราชอาณาจักรไทย (Rachanachakn Thaiy) meaning "kingdom of Thailand".
THORNLEY (Settlement) EnglishFrom Old English
þorn "thorn" and
leah "woodland, clearing". This is the name of several towns in England and Scotland.
THORNTON (Settlement) EnglishFrom Old English
þorn "thorn" and
tun "enclosure, yard, town". This is the name of several English towns.
TIMBUKTU (Settlement) English, Arabic, Central African, BamilekeMeaning uncertain. It could be derived from Songhai meaning
"hollow, hole", or from Berber meaning
"place of small dunes". This is the name of a city in central Mali. Descriptions of the city's wealth and remoteness first reached Europe from the 16th-century Berber author Leo Africanus. Since then the city has been used in Western Culture as a symbol for a distant, mysterious place.
TOKYO (Settlement) Japanese, English, FrenchFrom Japanese
東 (tō) meaning "east" and
京 (kyō) meaning "capital city". This is the name of the capital of Japan.
TRACY (Settlement) FrenchDerived from the given name
THRACIUS. This is the name of communes in Calvados, France.
TREFOR (Settlement) WelshMeans
"big village" from Welsh
tref "village" and
mawr "large". This is the name of a town in Gwynedd, Wales.
TRENT (1) (River) EnglishRiver in England, possibly from the Celtic elements
tri "across" and
sant "travel", a reference to its frequent floodings.
TRENTO (Settlement) ItalianDerived from Latin
Tridentum meaning
"three teeth", a reference to three surrounding hills. This is the name of a city in Trentino, Italy.
TRENTON (Settlement) EnglishMeans
"TRENT's town". This is the name of a New Jersey city established in the 17th century by William Trent.
TROY (Settlement) Ancient Greek (Anglicized)From Greek
Τροια (Troia), said to derive from its mythical founder
Τρως (Tros), but more likely of Luwian or Hittite origin. In Greek mythology (most notably in
Homer's
Iliad) this was the name of a city, also called
Ilium, that was besieged by the Greeks after
Helen was abducted by
PARIS (1).
TROYES (Settlement) French, English, German, DutchThe name of a city in France, named in Latin
(Augustobona) Tricassium, which was named after the Gallic tribe of the Tricasses.
TURKEY (Country) EnglishFrom Latin
Turcia, derived from the ethnonym
Turk, which is from Old Turkic possibly meaning "ancestry". This is the name of a country situated on the Anatolian peninsula.
TYRONE (Political Subdivision) IrishFrom Irish Gaelic
Tir Eoghain meaning
"land of EOGHAN". This is the name of a county in Northern Ireland.