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Map of places with "Saint" in the name - Spanish Galic
ia is the holiest, Scandinavians confirmed har
By: Alharacas Date: September 10, 2018, 6:32 am
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HTML https://i.imgur.com/yGJtMjd.jpg
I know - in Galicia, the monasteries were there first, then the
villages got named after the monasteries. And the name remained,
even though the monastery itself may have disappeared over time.
The question is: why aren't many more places all over Europe
named after their monasteries, whether defunct or not?
And why is Sicily of all places mostly blank?
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Re: Map of places with "Saint" in the name - Spanish G
alicia is the holiest, Scandinavians confirmed
By: Aliph Date: September 11, 2018, 7:35 pm
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Alharacas, I can only say that in Sicily many toponyms have an
Arabic origin, since the southern neighbors across the water
colonized the island during two centuries. Well, Arabs prefer to
say administered the island.
In Sicilia hanno una certa diffusione i toponimi di origine
araba, eredità del periodo islamico dell'isola. Appartengono a
questa serie i nomi in calat- o calta- (da qalat, fortezza),
sciara (da sahar, roccia), in racal- (da rahal, casale) e quelli
formatisi da parole come al-Karah ("la via", per esempio Lercara
o Alcara) o da al-qantar ("ponte", per esempio Alcantara). La
città di Marsala deve il toponimo a marsa ("porto") unito a un
altro sostantivo ancora non identificato con certezza, tra cui
ʕálam (bandiera), Alī (Alì) e ʿāliyy
(grande). Anche l'isola di Pantelleria deriva il proprio nome
dalla lingua araba: "bintu-el-riah", ossia "figlia del vento".
Google translates the above text to English:
In Sicily the toponyms of Arab origin, a legacy of the Islamic
period of the island, have a certain diffusion. Belonging to
this series are the names calat- o calta- (from qalat,
fortress), sciara (from sahar, rock), in racal- (from rahal,
casale) and those formed by words like al-Karah ("the way") ,
for example Lercara or Alcara) or from al-qantar ("bridge", for
example Alcantara). The city of Marsala owes the toponym to
marsa ("port") together with another yet unidentified noun with
certainty, including ʕálam (flag), Alī (Alì)
and'āliyy (large). The island of Pantelleria also derives
its name from the Arabic language: "bintu-el-riah", that is
"daughter of the wind".
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Re: Map of places with "Saint" in the name - Spanish G
alicia is the holiest, Scandinavians confirmed
By: Alharacas Date: September 12, 2018, 6:09 am
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How stupid of me - I should have figured that out myself, it's
the same in Southern Spain: lots of place names from Arabic
times, many of them starting with "Beni-" or "Al-".
"Daughter of the Wind" - what a beautiful name for an island! :)
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Re: Map of places with "Saint" in the name - Spanish G
alicia is the holiest, Scandinavians confirmed
By: Aliph Date: September 12, 2018, 6:35 am
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[quote author=Alharacas link=topic=436.msg6204#msg6204
date=1536750566]
"Daughter of the Wind" - what a beautiful name for an island! :)
[/quote]
Beautiful name indeed for a very savage small island where only
some happy fews have their house. Giorgio Armani has a “dammuso”
(one of those traditional houses) in Pantelleria. Here a view of
the house:
HTML https://youtu.be/1JL6FFdulUg
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Re: Map of places with "Saint" in the name - Spanish G
alicia is the holiest, Scandinavians confirmed
By: Alharacas Date: September 12, 2018, 2:08 pm
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Beautiful house, grisly interior decoration (or don't you think
so?).
Also, I've always wondered why you'd need/want a pool if you
have a house right by the sea-side. And can't you just see the
architect wondering how to shape the pool so it would be
"special", and then coming up with "Let's make a round one.
Yeah! Great idea! Nobody has a round pool, that's brilliant!".
Er, because it looks like a goldfish bowl? And because swimming
rounds instead of lenghts, you'd get a crick in your back,
shoulders and neck?
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