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List of toponyms

In linguistics and grammar, a toponym is a name derived from a place or a region.

This is a list of toponyms, followed by the name of the place it is derived from.

Table of contents

1 General 2 Events/Agreements 3 Food and Drink 4 Cheese 5 Elements 6 See also

General

• Acapulco (as in ... gold)
• Angora
• Armageddon
• Auschwitz
• Babel
• Balkanization, a geopolitical term for the fragmentation of a region — the Balkans, region in southeastern Europe
• Bantustan
• Bay St
• Beltway
• Berlin Wall
• Bible, bibliography — Byblos, city on the Mediterranean coast of Lebanon
• Bikini
• the Blarney and Blarney Stone — Blarney Castle
• Boetian
• Bohemian
• Bombay duck, a kind of fish — Bombay, old name for Mumbai, coastal city in western India
• Bordeaux
• Brazilianization
• Bronx Cheer
• Brummagem, goods of shoddy quality — Birmingham, city in England
• Bungalow
• Byzantine
• Canary
• Carthaginian (peace)
• Caucasian
• Chautauqua
• China
• Chinese Wall
• Coach — the village Kocs in Hungary where this vehicle was first made
• Sent to Coventry
• Denim
• Detroit
• Dijon
• Dixieland music — Dixies or "Dixies land", a nickname for the south-eastern states of the United States.
• Dollar
• Donneybrook
• Doolally
• Duffel, heavy woollen cloth — Duffel, a town in Belgium
• Eden (place of dubious existence)
• El Dorado
• Essex, 'common' or 'nouveau riche' sensibility — Essex, a county near London
• Fez, (also called tarboosh), a hat — Fez, a city in Morocco
• Finlandization
• Fleet Street
• Frankfurter
• Georgia, a font from Microsoft — Georgia (U.S. state)
• Gibraltar
• Greek, a language usage ("all Greek to me") — Greek language of Greece
• Gypsies, nomadic peoples in Europe and United States — Egypt
• Havana (cigar)
• Hell, usage in language — Hell, mythical place
• Hicksville
• Holland, cotton or linen fabric — Holland
• Hollandaise
• Hollywood
• Iliad (see Troy)
• Indian
• Java
• Jersey cattle (also tomato, milk, cream, jumper) — Jersey, one of the Channel Islands
• Labyrinth
• Left Bank, style of life, fashion, or "look" — "Left Bank", bank of the Seine which is to the left, near Paris
• Lesbian, homosexual — Lesbos, island in Greece
• Lilliputian, meaning very small sized — Lilliput, fictional island in the book Gulliver's Travels
• Madison Avenue, a metaphor for advertising — Madison Avenue, a street in New York
• Magenta, colour — Magenta, town in northern Italy
• Marathon, long race — Marathon, Greece, town
• Madras, lightweight cotton fabic — Madras, old name for Chennai, coastal city in southeastern India
• Main Street
• Manchester (as in textiles)
• Manila envelopes, Manila fiber — Manila, city in Philippines
• Marseillaise, national anthem of France — Marseille, city in France
• Masada
• Mausoleum, a large and impressive tomb — Mausoleum of Maussollos in Turkey
• Mecca, ultimate destination or activity center — Mecca, holy city in Saudi Arabia
• Mocha coffee, ice cream — Mocha, Yemen, place where the coffee is grown
• Mongoloid race — Mongolia, country in northern Asia
• Motown
• Maus
• Neanderthal man, known by his fossils — Neanderthal, Germany, valley where the fossils were found
• Nuremberg Trials — Nuremberg, German city where the trials were held
• Olympics, worldwide games — Mount Olympus, tallest mountain in Greece
• Paisley (design), used in shawls — Paisley, Scotland
• Palookaville
• Peoria (tribe), Native American tribe — Peoria, Arizona, Peoria, Illinois, Peoria County, Illinois
• Peyton Place
• the Rubicon, the point of no return — Rubicon (or Rubico), Latin name for a small river in northern Italy
• Rugby football — Rugby School, in Rugby, central England
• Sardine, tyepes of small fish — Sardinia, island in the Mediterranean near Italy
• Seltzer (commercial name)
• Shambala
• Shanghai woman, English expression for a prostitute — Shanghai, China's largest city
• Shangri-La, a mythical utopia, a language usage — Shangri-La, fictional place in the novel Lost Horizon
• Siamese twins, conjoined twins — Siam, old name for Thailand
• Siberia, a remote undesirable location — Siberia, in eastern Russia
• Sodomy, forbidden sexual acts — Sodom, Biblical town on the plain of the Jordan River
• Solecism, incorrect or ungrammatical usage of language — Soli, ancient city on the island of Cyprus, where a dialect regarded as substandard was spoken
• Spa, place having water with health-giving properties — Spa, a municipality in Belgium
• Stalingrad
• Surrey, horse-drawn carriage — Surrey, southern England
• Timbuktu, metaphor for an exotic, distant land — Timbuktu, city on the Niger River in Mali, West Africa
• Tin Pan Alley
• Trojan horse, malicious computer virus — Trojan Horse, of Troy, from the Illiad
• Trojaned
• Utopia, term for organized society — Utopia, fictional republic from the book of the same name
• Wall Street, financial market — Wall Street, a narrow thoroughfare in lower Manhattan running east from Broadway downhill to the East River.
• Watergate, American political scandal and constitutional crisis of the 1970s — Watergate Office Building in Washington, D.C
• Woodstock Festival, music and art festival held in August, 1969 — venue of the festival Woodstock, New York
• Xanadu, a symbol of opulence — Xanadu (or Shangdu), summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire
• Zion

Events/Agreements

• Hiroshima
• Kyoto
• Maastricht
• Munich
• Oslo
• Potsdam
• Seattle
• Yalta
• Waterloo

Food and Drink

• Burgundy
• Cantaloupe (also called rockmelon), a variety of melon — Cantalupo, the Pope's summer residence
• Champagne
• Cuban, sub sandwich in Florida — Cuba, country in the Caribbean
• Dunkirk spirit
• Frankfurter (or Wiener - from Vienna)
• Hamburger
• Sherry wine, a mispronunciation of Jerez — Jerez de la Frontera, a city in southern Spain
• Manhattan cocktail — Manhattan Club in New York City
• Madeira wine, a fortified wine and Plum in madeira, a dessert — Madeira islands of Portugal
• Peking Duck, a Chinese dish made of duck — Peking, old name for Beijing, China
• Port wine (or Porto), sweet fortified wine — Oporto, in northern Portugal
• Salisbury Steak — Salisbury, England

Cheese

• American
• Aveyron(nais)
• Caerphilly
• Cheddar
• Cheshire
• Colby
• Derby
• Gloucester
• Gorgonzola
• Gouda
• Gruyere
• Lancashire
• Leicester
• Limburg(er)
• Monterey (Jacks)
• Munster
• Parme(san)
• Roma(no)
• Roquefort
• Stilton
• Swiss
• Tilsit
• Wensleydale

Elements

See: Chemical elements named after places

See also

• Lists of etymologies
• List of eponyms, names derived from people's names

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