Subject: Places named after states (was Re: Glenelg<br/>
Date: Dec 02, 2001 @ 08:53<br/>
Author: orc@orcoast.com (orc@...)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1776290184">--- In BoundaryPoint@y..., &quot;Jan Krogh&quot; &lt;jakro64@y...&gt; wrote:<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; But the «original», the city of York, was established as the Norse Viking=
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&gt; township of Jorvik...<br/>
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&gt; Jan<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>the roman town name of eboracum on that spot sounds a bit like york too<br/>
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so maybe the norse etymology is reversed<br/>
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m</div>