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List of toponyms
This is a list of toponyms followed by the name of the place it takes its name from.
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
- 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
- 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
- Lesbian, homosexual — Lesbos, island in Greece
- Lilliputian, meaning very small sized — Lilliput, fictional island in the book Gulliver's Travels
- Madison Avenue
- Magenta
- Marathon
- Madras, lightweight cotton fabic — Madras, old name for Chennai, coastal city in southeastern India
- Manchester (as in textiles)
- Manila
- Marseillaise
- Masada
- Mausoleum, a large and impressive tomb — Mausoleum of Maussollos in Turkey
- Mecca
- Mocha
- Mongoloid
- Motown
- Maus
- Neanderthal
- Nuremberg (defense)
- Olympics, worldwide games — Mount Olympus, tallest mountain in Greece
- Paisley
- Palookaville
- Peoria
- Peyton Place
- Rubicon
- Rugby football — Rugby School, in Rugby, central England
- Sardine
- Seltzer (commercial name)
- Shambala
- Shanghai (verb)
- 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
- Sent to Siberia
- Sodomy, forbidden sexual acts — Sodom, Biblical town on the plain of the Jordan River
- Solecism
- Spa, place having water with health-giving properties — Spa, a municipality in Belgium
- Stalingrad
- Surrey, horse-drawn carriage — Surrey, southern England
- Timbuktu
- 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
- Watergate
- Woodstock
- Xanadu, a symbol of opulence — Xanadu (or Shangdu), summer capital of Kublai Khan's empire
- Zion
Events/Agreements
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
- 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
Elements
See: Chemical elements named after places
See also
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