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Postby Windford » Thu Sep 19, 2013 4:13 pm

Redport. It was originally named Woodquay but that changed after Hermit King came into power.

It is called Redport because of the redbrick warehouses along the cities ports. The city walls are also coated in a red plaster as is the Keep, thus earning it the name Redport.
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Postby Equalium » Thu Sep 19, 2013 4:23 pm

Capiqualium was named for it to be the Capital of the nation of Equalium. Usually, when the ruler is in the last spot of a city that is unnamed with "Qualium", it gets renamed to that city after the ruler. However, Capiqualium is an exception, for it was founded by Socialist Revolutionists who already named it before they died.
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Postby Estainia » Thu Sep 19, 2013 4:47 pm

Alexandrovsk can't be properly translated though it means Alexei's City.
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Postby Olwe » Fri Sep 20, 2013 11:12 am

It's named after our first Empress, Nariel, who was assassinated nearly 2,000 years ago.
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Postby Waspeaters » Fri Sep 20, 2013 12:40 pm

Milldale. It was founded and so named by the first English settlers on the island of Waspeaters. They called it Milldale because they thought that it sounded traditionally English, not because anyone was actually from anywhere called Milldale.

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Postby Trackeendy » Fri Sep 20, 2013 3:02 pm

Capital Shinso means God-Spear. Named after species of plant that only grows there
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Postby Austerene » Fri Sep 20, 2013 5:13 pm

The Capital, Oberbachstein, is simply, "the rock over the stream".
Oberbachstein is built on a mountain, and has the Selz river passing right underneath it.
It was founded many, many centuries ago, and was always called like it is today.
Oberbachstein also has its own Platz (Kingdom) surrounding it since many centuries ago.
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Postby New Aerios » Sat Sep 21, 2013 3:51 am

Divitae. It's Latin for "Prosperity". Thought it was rather fitting.
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Postby Chelta » Sat Sep 21, 2013 8:25 am

Our capital city, Chelsea, was named after Lord Chelsea, an important patron of the first colonial ventures into this land during the 16th Century.


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Postby Malefant » Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:28 pm

Stetcez Lumicz (or just simply Lumicz) translates to Illumination City, named after the Illumination Party.
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Postby Grand Vancouver » Wed Oct 02, 2013 12:48 pm

Olympia was so named because the settlers who came to the area that is now the capital of Grand Vancouver by one of their group because the Olympia Mountains to the northwest were visible from the site.
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Postby Ingrids rike » Thu Oct 03, 2013 12:32 am

Kristdala can't be properly translated though it means The valley of Christ.
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Postby Gallade » Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:42 am

Bastioforre means "Fortified Stronghold" in the native tongue. It was named for its defences in times passed.
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Postby Neo-Latin Rome » Thu Oct 03, 2013 3:44 am

Romagna? It's a contraction of "Romulus" and "Magnus".

To the Romans, it means something along the lines of "Great Rome".
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Postby TurtleShroom » Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:19 pm

Jonesboro is named after Jones Found, the founder of TurtleShroom.
Found brought peace to TurtleShroom's bickering about the state's structure and handpicked the first government. Although most of his past was never actually know, we do know that Found was a mysterious, devotedly religious man who united TurtleShroom under one Constitution. The idea of using frying pans was his idea and arose first out of neccesity, then out of respect. His compromises brought gender equality (total when before the law) to TurtleShroomer humans in appeasement to the female-controlled turtles, gave order to the turtle tribes, and gave ceremony and unity to the mushrooms. Placed under one Christian banner, TurtleShroom ultimately switched its state denomination to a specific denomination, Southern Baptist Christianity, when Found left.

All accounts of Jones repeat basic facts, including the narrative of Jones above. (He also left behind many writings that help back these statements.)
For one, Jones was Slavic in origin and reportedly spoke Ukrainian and some Russian. His English was very broken, if not bordering incomprehensible, though he could write basic Christian sentiments like "Jesus is Lord" or his own name. Jones was a nomad with golden blonde hair, which he wore in what would today be seen as a "scene" hairstyle more common in black-donning lifestyles concerning angsty teenage humans. He was humble and refused to take shelter from the people who praised him and whome he united. Supposedly, his ratty old cloak and messy wardrobe reminded the TurtleShroomian faithful of John the Baptist or Moses, the great and holy Jewish prophet. After he united TurtleShroom, he turned down the offers from the very Kings he crowned to make him their own monarch, and slipped away in the night, never to be seen agian. A statue now stands in his honor in the city.
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Postby Themiclesia » Fri Oct 04, 2013 8:38 pm

The capital city of Themiclesia is Lyttonwic, which really doesn't mean anything in English, other than being the compound of Lytton+wic, meaning roughly Lytton-settlement.

However, the root word is actually 'lylytokonos' which means in our language 'had forgotten'.
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Postby Archonium » Fri Oct 04, 2013 10:38 pm

Archoniopolii means "the supreme city", as it is the nation's capital and also home to the government and imperial family.
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Postby Thakoria » Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:24 am

Màlsi has no exact meaning in modern Thakorian. "Màl" is most likely connected to Albanian "mal" meaning mountain. In Thakorian it's considered an archaic word as a mountain is now "thakor" in Thakorian (yeah, country's name also means "Mountainous land"). -si might be some locative suffix but no one knows for sure.

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Postby Malvinia » Sun Oct 06, 2013 2:27 am

Jamestown was named after its founder, Captain James Beaufort.
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Postby Vyvland » Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:04 am

Lorence was sited on the site of an old monastery dedicated to St. Lawrence. Monasteries were some of the few permanent settlements in ancient Vyvland, and often controlled a wide and defined area of the country, and as such, many major towns of today were situated next to or near them.
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Postby Valkyrine » Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:06 am

Trinity was named so by Pope Martin V in 1430 after the cession of the island to the Papal States following the Treaty of Rome. Previously, the island had been named Freyjasholm by its Norse inhabitants, as was the city. Obviously, Trinity was named after the Catholic Holy Trinity of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit as the Papacy attempted to forge Valkyrine into a new holy alnd.

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Postby New Lowerlands » Sun Oct 06, 2013 4:36 am

In the New Lowerlands, our capital, Oostedam, means " Eastern Port "
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Postby Northanhymbra » Sun Oct 06, 2013 5:46 am

Eoforwic, popularly believed to be derived from Eofor (wild boar) and Wíc (settlement, village, dwelling), taken to mean "Place of the Boar."

In actuality, we just took two of our words which sound similar to the preëxisting name, Eboracum, slapped them together, and had a name.
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