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"Burgh" is an old-fashioned name for an autonomous city in Scotland and Northern England, I know of a place called Jedburgh in Scotland, any other examples?
There's Sedbergh in Cumbria.
Plus hundreds of places called "-town" if we're counting those, my own town Skipton is just a contraction of "sheep-town" - you can guess what the traditional industry here was.
Now I think of it, eastern England in particular is full of places ending in -by, -sted/-stead etc, also meaning town.
Plus hundreds of places called "-town" if we're counting those, my own town Skipton is just a contraction of "sheep-town" - you can guess what the traditional industry here was.
Now I think of it, eastern England in particular is full of places ending in -by, -sted/-stead etc, also meaning town.
There's a lot of old Anglo-Saxon terms that are atatched to the end of place names, ton, ham, shire, etc.
I believe that "Ham" means village. So somewhere like Birmingham originally started out as a small Anglo-Saxon village.
In southern Italy in particular, there are municipalities whose name end with "-poli", from the Greek polis. For example, Monopoli.
Yes because southern Italy was once the thriving Magna Graecia, and BTW you forgot to mention the most important of those "-poli" ending cities: Napoli, which originally was Neapolis i.e. New City.
Yes because southern Italy was once the thriving Magna Graecia, and BTW you forgot to mention the most important of those "-poli" ending cities: Napoli, which originally was Neapolis i.e. New City.
Can anyone tell me why Kaapstad is translated to Cape Town in the English language?
Stad = City.
The ancient word Stad in Dutch or German meant town, those towns grew into cities. English borrowed from the German Stad to mean city or state, as in the German concept of city-state in medieval times (Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen). Cape Town functioned as a city-state from its founding in 1662 until the redrawing the political lines of modern South Africa into provinces.
It's more complicated than that. Here in Texas there are specific laws concerning incorporating municipalities, and how they function. I live in the "City of Austin", I grew up in the "Village of Rollingwood".
Here is a short overview of the legal statutes in Texas, note section Sec. 5.902.
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I didn't thought about that, my mistake.
