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List of toponyms
Here is a list of toponyms, a name derived from a place or region.
- Acapulco (as in ... gold)
- Armageddon
- Auschwitz
- Babel
- Balkanized
- Bantustan
- Bay St.
- Beltway
- Berlin Wall
- Bible
- Bikini
- Blarney
- Boetian
- Bohemian
- Bordeaux
- Brazilianization
- Bronx Cheer
- Brummagem (denotes goods of shoddy quality, from Birmingham)
- Bungalow
- Burgundy
- Byzantine
- Canary
- Cantaloupe (named after the Pope's summer residence of Cantalupo)
- Carthaginian (peace)
- Caucasian
- Champagne
- Chautauqua
- China
- Chinese Wall
- Continental Breakfast
- Coventry
- Cuban (sub sandwich in Florida)
- Denim
- Detroit
- Dijon
- Dixieland
- Dollar
- Donneybrook
- Doolally
- Dunkirk
- Eden
- El Dorado
- Essex (nouveau riche sensibility)
- Fez
- Frankfurter
- Georgia (font)
- Gibraltar
- Greek (all Greek to me)
- Gypsy (from Egyptian)
- Hamburger
- Havana (smoke a...)
- Hell
- Hicksville
- Holland (cotton or linen fabric)
- Hollandaise
- Hollywood
- Indian
- Java
- Jersey
- Jerez (sherry)
- Labyrinth
- Left Bank
- Lesbian
- Lilliputian
- Madison Ave.
- Magenta
- Manhatten
- Marathon
- Madeira
- Madras (plaid)
- Manchester (as in textiles)
- Manila
- Marseillaise
- Masada
- Mausoleum
- Mecca
- Mocha
- Mongoloid
- Motown
- Neanderthal
- Nuremberg (defense)
- Olympian
- Paisley
- Palookaville
- Pantheon
- Pax Romana
- Peking Duck
- Peoria
- Peyton Place
- Port
- Rubicon
- Rugby
- Salisbury Steak (many more British foods named after places)
- Sardines
- Seltzer
- Shambala
- Shanghaid
- Shangrai-la
- Siamese
- Siberia
- Silicon Valley
- Sodomy
- Solecism
- Spa (resort in Belgium)
- Stalingrad
- Surrey (horse-drawn carriage)
- Timbuktu
- Trojan Horse
- Trojaned
- Utopia
- Wall St.
- Watergate
- Waterloo
- Wellingtons
- Woodstock
- Zion
- Hiroshima
- Kyoto
- Maastricht
- Munich
- Oslo
- Potsdam
- Seattle
- Yalta
- Colby
- Munster
- Swiss
- American
- Cheddar
- Gruyere
- Limburg(er)
- Parme(san)
- Roma(no)
- Aveyron(nais)
- Roquefort
- Gloucester
- Cheshire
- Lancashire
- Leicester
- Wensleydale
- Caerphilly
- Derby
- Monterey (Jacks)
- Gorgonzola
- Tilsit
- Gouda
- Americium
- Californium (California)
- Europium
- Francium (France)
- Gallium (Gallia, Latin name for France)
- Germanium (Germany)
- Polonium (Poland)
- Ruthenium (Ruthenia, Latin name for Russia)
- Scandium (Scandia, Latin name for Scandinavia)
- Thulium (Thule, ancient name for Scandinavia)
- Indium (India)
- Berkelium (Berkley, home of Univ. of California)
- Erbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)
- Hafnium (Hafnia, Latin name for Copenhagen)
- Holfrlium (Holmia, Latin name for Stockholm)
- Lutetium (Latetia, old name for Paris)
- Magnesium (Magnesia, district in Thessaly)
- Rhenium (Rhenus, Latin name for Rhine)
- Strontium (Strontiun, town in Scotland)
- Terbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)
- Ytterbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)
- Yttrium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)