List of toponyms

Here is a list of toponyms, names derived from a place or region.

Table of contents

1 General 2 Events/Agreements 3 Cheese 4 Elements

General

• Acapulco (as in ... gold)
• Angora
• Armageddon
• Auschwitz
• Babel
• Balkanization (from the Balkans)
• Bantustan
• Bay St
• Beltway
• Berlin Wall
• Bible, bibliography (named after location of Bublos or Byblos)
• Bikini
• the 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
• Sent to Coventry
• Cuban (sub sandwich in Florida)
• Denim
• Detroit
• Dijon
• Dixieland
• Dollar
• Donneybrook
• Doolally
• Duffel coat (named after a town in Belgium)
• Dunkirk spirit
• Eden
• El Dorado
• Essex ('common' or 'nouveau riche' sensibility)
• Fez (hat)
• Finlandization
• Frankfurter
• Georgia (font)
• Gibraltar
• Greek (all Greek to me)
• Gypsy (from Egyptian)
• Hamburger
• Havana (cigar)
• Hell
• Hicksville
• Holland (cotton or linen fabric)
• Hollandaise
• Hollywood
• Iliad (see Troy)
• Indian
• Java
• Jersey (tomato, milk, cream, as well as jumper)
• Jerez (sherry)
• Labyrinth
• Left Bank
• Lesbian (from Lesbos)
• Lilliputian (from Gulliver's Travels)
• Madison Avenue
• Magenta
• Manhattan
• Marathon
• Madeira
• Madras (plaid)
• Manchester (as in textiles)
• Manila
• Marseillaise
• Masada
• Mausaleum (technically this is a building, rather than a region)
• Mecca
• Mocha
• Mongoloid
• Motown
• Maus
• Neanderthal
• Nuremberg (defense)
• Olympian, Olympics (from Mount Olympus)
• Paisley
• Palookaville
• Peking Duck (see also Peking)
• Peoria
• Peyton Place
• Port
• Rubicon
• Rugby (but Rugby shirt and Rugby ball are not considered toponyms)
• Salisbury Steak (one of many British foods named after places)
• Sardine
• Seltzer (commercial name)
• Shambala
• Shanghai (verb)
• Shangrai-la (mythical)
• Siamese (cats, twins)
• Sent to Siberia
• Sodomy (see Sodom)
• Solecism
• Spa (resort in Belgium)
• Stalingrad
• Surrey (horse-drawn carriage)
• Timbuktu
• Trojan Horse (see Troy)
• Trojaned
• Utopia
• Wall Street
• Watergate
• Woodstock
• Xanadu (mythical)
• Zion

Events/Agreements

• Hiroshima
• Kyoto
• Maastricht
• Munich
• Oslo
• Potsdam
• Seattle
• Yalta
• Waterloo

Cheese

• American
• Aveyron(nais)
• Caerphilly
• Cheddar
• Cheshire
• Colby
• Derby
• Gloucester
• Gorgonzola
• Gouda
• Gruyere
• Lancashire
• Leicester
• Limburg(er)
• Monterey (Jacks)
• Munster
• Parme(san)
• Roma(no)
• Roquefort
• Swiss
• Tilsit
• Wensleydale

Elements

• Americium (the United States of America)
• Berkelium (Berkeley, home of University of California, Berkeley)
• Californium (California, home of University of California)
• Erbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)
• Europium (Europe)
• Francium (France)
• Gallium (Gallia, Latin name for France)
• Germanium (Germany)
• Hafnium (Hafnia, Latin name for Copenhagen)
• Holmium (Holmia, Latin name for Stockholm)
• Lutetium (Latetia, old name for Paris)
• Magnesium (Magnesia, district in Thessaly)
• Polonium (Poland)
• Rhenium (Rhenus, Latin name for Rhine)
• Ruthenium (Ruthenia, Latin name for Russia)
• Scandium (Scandia, Latin name for Scandinavia)
• Strontium (Strontiun, town in Scotland
• Terbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)
• Thulium (Thule, ancient name for Scandinavia)
• Ytterbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)
• Yttrium (Ytterby, village in Sweden)

See also: Chemical element