Browse Submitted Place Names

This is a list of submitted place names in which the person who added the name is UncleJay.
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Chartreux (Settlement) French
A village in Dauphine, France, named from words meaning "Battle King" (location of the Carthusian Monastery on Chartreuse Mountain)
Dorset (Settlement) Medieval English
named after Dorchester, 'Roman Town with Fist-Sized Pebbles'; that was after the Romans had named it Durnovaria, which probably means "Place with Fist-Sized Pebbles"
Greenwich (Settlement) English
Green Harbor or -Settlement
Guantanamo (Settlement) Taíno
"land between rivers"
Kahoolawe (Island) Hawaiian
"The" + "to Subtract, Erode" ... the only uninhabited island in Hawaii
Mosul (Settlement) Arabic
"the Joined," in reference to a bridge & ford over the Tigris
Nagasaki (Political Subdivision & Settlement) Japanese
From Japanese 長 (naga) meaning "long" and 崎 (saki) meaning "cape". This is the name of a city in Japan, as well as the prefecture in which the city is located.
Olean (Settlement) Biblical Latin
derived from a word that means "Oil"
Plym (River) Cornish
"Plum Tree"
Pomerania (Region) Medieval Slavic
The name "Pomerania" comes from the Slavic words meaning "by" or "along" and one meaning "sea". So, "Pomerania" essentially means "land by the sea". ... [more]
Therasia (Island) Greek
Western island of Santorini (a.k.a. Thera), all my 'research' ties it to the given name Theresa (which is also related to words that mean "Summer" and/or "Harvest.")
Uvalde (Settlement) Spanish
named after Juan de Ugalde, governor of Coahuila (a part of Texas).... [more]