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Geographical etymology: a dictionary of place-names giving their derivations
Blackie, Christina
Names, Geographical
Casale, 42
Cashel, 42
Caspian Sea, named from the _Caspii_, a tribe
Cassel, 42
Castile, 42
Catania, Phœn. the little city
Cattegat, 88
Caucasus, 147
Cavan, 44
Caxamarca in Peru, the place of frost
Cefalu, 46
Cephalonia, 46
Cerigo, anc. _Cythera_, the harp-shaped
Cerro--_v._ SIERRA
Cevennes, 46
Ceylon, 65
Chambery, the bend of the water, on the R. Leysse, in France
Chamouni, 40
Champlain, named from the Governor-General of Canada in the
seventeenth century
Charles Cape, named after Baby Charles in the reign of James I.
Charlestown, named after Charles II.
Chatham, 55
Chaumont, 39
Chelsea, 46
Chemnitz, 114
Chepstow, 47
Chester, 43
Cheviot Hills, 46
Chilham, 99
Chiltern Hills, 11
China, probably named from the dynasty of Thsin in the third
century B.C.
Chippenham, 47
Chiusa, 116
Christchurch, in Hants, anc. _Twinam-burne_, between two
streams, and afterwards named from a church and priory founded
by the W. Saxons in the reign of Edward the Confessor
Christiana, named after Christian IV. of Sweden
Ciudad, 49
Civita-Vecchia, 49
Clackmannan, 49
Clameny, 109
Clare Co., 50
Cleveland, 50
Cleves, 50
Clifton, 50
Clitheroe, 50
Clogheen, 49
Clonakilty, 50
Clones, 50
Clontarf, 50
Closeburn, 48
Cloyne, 50
Coblentz, 54
Cochin, _kochi_, a morass
Cockburnspath, in Berwickshire, corrupt. from _Colbrand’s Path_
Cognac, the corner of the water
Coire or Chur, 56
Colberg, 31
Coleraine, 58
Colmar, Lat. _Collis-Martis_, the hill of Mars
Colombo, corrupt. from _Kalan-Totta_, the ferry on the Kalawa
Ganga
Colonna, Cape, 117
Como, Lake, 54
Comorin, Cape, named from a temple to the goddess Durga
Compostella, Santiago de, corrupt. from _Sanctus Jacobus
Apostolus_, so called from a legend that the Apostle James was
buried there
Comrie, at the confluence of three rivers, in Perthshire, 53
Condé, 33
Congleton, 33
Connaught, anc. _Conaicht_, the territory of the descendants
of Conn of the hundred battles
Connecticut, Ind. _Qunnitukut_, the country on the long river
Connemara, 144
Constance, Lake, 172
Copeland Isle, 47
Copenhagen, 47
Corbridge, 56
Cork, 54
Cornwall, 54
Coromandel, corrupt. from _Cholomandala_, the district of the
_Cholas_, a tribe
Corrientes, Span. the currents
Corryvreckan, 52
Corsica, the woody
Corunna, corrupt. from _Columna_, the pillars, in allusion to
a tower of Hercules
Cosenza, Lat. _Cosentia_, the confluence
Cotswold Hills, 52
Cottian Alps, named after a Celtic chief
Coutance and Cotantin, named after the Emperor Constantius
Coventry, 196
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