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Kakariko Village (カカリコ村, Kakariko-mura) is a fictional village of The Legend of Zelda series that appears in A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Four Swords Adventures, Twilight Princess, A Link Between Worlds, and Breath of the Wild. Kakariko is often portrayed as a prosperous small town. Karnaca. Dishonored 2.
Algonquin Bay is a small town in Northern Ontario, a fictionalized version of the city of North Bay . Alissar. Lyon Sprague de Camp. Novarian series. A Novarian city-state. Al-Ybi. Terry Pratchett. Discworld. Al-Ybi is a mostly unremarkable desert city in Klatch.
Lovecraft Country is a term coined for the New England setting used by H. P. Lovecraft in many of his weird fiction stories, which combines real and fictitious locations. This setting has been elaborated on by other writers working in the Cthulhu Mythos. The phrase was not in use during Lovecraft's own lifetime; it was coined by Keith Herber ...
Victoria, British Columbia. Vigornia. Worcester, England; Worcester, Massachusetts. Vindobona. Vienna, Austria. Latinized form of a Greek name. Naples/Neapolis is a rare exception to the rule of Latinization of foreign city names as it was established by the Greeks and predates Rome by many centuries.
Place names giving directions relative to a castle, such as Jōhoku (North of the Castle), Jōsai (West of the Castle) or Jōnan (South of the Castle), are common throughout Japan. minato (港) or tsu (津) for a harbor; e.g., Minato, Tokyo and Tsu, Mie. shuku or -juku (宿), a post or station town on a traditional highway; e.g., Shinjuku.
This is a list of traditional Hebrew place names. This list includes: Places involved in the history (and beliefs) of Canaanite religion, Abrahamic religion and Hebrew culture and the (pre-Modern or directly associated Modern) Hebrew (and intelligible Canaanite) names given to them. Places whose official names include a (Modern) Hebrew form.
Alexandria. Rhacotis, Rakotə, Eskendereyyah. Alexandria was the intellectual and cultural center of the ancient world for some time; capital of the Ptolemaic Kingdom. Khito ( Rosetta ) 3rd. Rashid. Bolbitine, Bolbitinum, Bolbitinon, Trashit, Rakhit, Rexi. Where Rosetta Stone was found.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...