Does anyone know the original Roman name of Flint in North Wales ?
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Ffrith was the Roman name for Flint,North Wales according to. www.bbc.co.uk.That is the very best \nI can do for you. God Bless
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The Red Dragon of Wales, is the symbol of resurgent Wales. The Red Dragon was originally a griffin on the standard of a Roman legion ... \nSorry couldn't tell you more about it.\ngood luck on finding the whole story.\nTry different searchengines, it must be out there somewhere.
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Got it in front of me - \n\nEcce Romani 1 : Meeting the family\nA Latin reading Course Prepared by the Scottish Classics Group\nOliver & Boyd, 1971.\nISBN 0 05 002366 7\n\nSed Marcus et Cornelia non in horto ambulat. Cornelia cum amica sua, Flavia, in horto ambulat. Marcus cum amico suo, Sexto (puer gloriosus et temerarius!) in horto ludit. Et Davus iracundus est...\n-------------------------------------\nsigns of the times - Yahoo has edited out c-u-m. God help us all.
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It's called a pantheon.  There's an old one in Rome.
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It's not Farquarson, it's Featherstonehaugh that's pronounced Fanshaw.  There are plenty of other examples, including placenames: Happisburgh in Norfolk pronounced Haysbro', Belvoir pronounced Beaver.  It's the sign of an old language:  names evolve, pronounciation deteriorates, and sometimes spelling doesn't keep up.  \nSometimes it does: Bristol used to be called Brigstow, but the local dialect adds an L to the end of words that end in vowel sounds (Bristolians drink 'vodkal' that they buy from 'Asdal'), and so Brigstow became 'Brigstowl', which decayed into 'Bristol'.
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I have to admit im not too clued up on the geology of Maryland, however over here in the UK we have in the Mendip Hills something which resembles Obsidian but in fact its not. On a university field trip we went to an old smelt, where the guys used to smelt Limestone and the result was this black shiny stuff that looked identical to Obsidian. The stuff was strewn all over the place in big heaps. Confused the 'ell out of us students initially until we were told the what it actually was. I wish I could remember more about it but then again uni was a bit of a blur!
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homework?\n\nPunic was the word used to describe those from Carthage in Roman times.  It is thought to be a form of our word Phoenician
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First, I have to say that anything that the publisher "Llewellyn" has printed on the subject is probably fiction.  For your report you will want to stay to information that is academic and as historically accurate as possible--preferrably with references and written by someone recognized in the academic world as a scholar in Celtic studies.\n\nYou may be able to find something helpful in the links found here:\nhttp://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ag9QxQwCMDrM6U5mwIO3DU7sy6IX?qid=20061103204100AAuYbwM\n\nRemember that the Celts ranged all over Europe at different times, but I am guessing that you are looking for info about the insular Celts (those living on the isles).  Probably the oldest written myths are Irish, so you could look into the recommended books for Irish mythology.  I recommend "Ancient Irish Tales" by Cross and Slover.  My personal favorite authors are Barry Cunliffe and Miranda Green.  These are the books I enjoyed the most (and you should be able to find them in the European history section of your library):\nThe Gods of the Celts by Miranda Green\nThe Druids by Stuart Piggott ( dated but still good)\nThe Celts by Nora Chadwick\nThe World of the Druids by Miranda Green\nThe Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe\nPagan Celtic Britain by Anne Ross\nAtlas of the Celtic World by John Haywood (I really found this reference book useful to understand where the Celts came from and when they migrated.  Geography [especially ancient geography] wasn't one of my best subjects).\n\nIf you have a specific Celtic area that you're interested in (like Ireland, Britian or Wales) e-mail me and I may be able to recommend more.
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check out spartacus (cant remember real address just type into google.co.uk)\nAlso schoolhistory.co.uk is really good. im a history teacher so im a bit of an expert on this.
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North is Carlisle i think, West must be Cardiff or Swansea?! As for south and east I'll guess at Plymouth and Norwich!
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The year of 46 B.C.E (the only one I could find via google).
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http://www.britannia.com/history/h12.html\n\nhttp://www.legends.dm.net/kingarthur/\n\nhttp://www.kingarthursknights.com/
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Hi Dotti! I got your message, thanks for contacting me. \nIf you're interested here are some other bits of info I've gathered. The stone of scone is also known as the lia fail which is Irish for the stone of destiny, it's believed that Jeremiah brought it with him to Ireland from Israel before the Irish monks took it to the Scottish island of Iona etc.\nOllamh Foladh was the Irish name given to Jeremiah and is mentioned in several places in the annals of Ireland. Now there are two Scotias mentioned in the Irish annals - one of them was the daughter of the pharoh Hectonibus/Nectonibus so that's just something to watch out for when you're researching. You mentioned the flag, another interesting thing is that in Northern Ireland, okay... how to explain this... Ireland is made up of four provinces, three of them are in the republic of Ireland and one of them, Ulster is ruled from Westminster and is part of the United Kindom. The symbol for the province of ulster is a red hand - remember Zarah and Pharez and the midwife tieing a red thread on the hand of one of the babies? The symbol of Ireland is the harp of David which is also on the queen of Englands coat of arms, at one point the king of England was also the king of Ireland which is why the harp is on their coat of arms. And of course the lion of Judah, symbol of Scotland. One last thing, Scotia is the ancient name for Ireland. In the time of Jeremiah Scotland was a province of Ireland and ruled by the Irish high king in much the same way as Northern Ireland is now ruled from England.The Scots retained the name Scotia when the Romans renamed Ireland as Hiberia. The romans often referred to the Irish as the Scotti. Scotland was also mainly populated by Irish migrants. The native language of both the Irish and Scots is Gaelic, the Scots speak an older version of the language but there are still amazing similarities right up to the present day. Scotland also had a native people called the Picts. I hope you find this helpful and I'll try to dig up some of my old notes and web sites over the next few weeks and I'll get back to you if you like. Gb Esther.
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Etymology of 'York'\nThe place where the city now is was originally named by the Celts as Eborakon, which may mean "place of yew trees". The name of the Yew is Efrawg in Brythonic, Efwr in Welsh, Iobhar in Irish Gaelic, Iorc in Scottish Gaelic, Evor in Breton . The Gaulic equivalent Eburos is the basis for toponyms as far as Eburobrittium (Évora) among the Lusitani, or Ebura in Hispania Baetica, for the Celtiberian gens of the Eburanci or peoples like the Eburones or Eburovices in Gaul [1]. As York was a town in Roman times, its Celtic name is recorded in Roman sources, as Eboracum and Eburacum, with the ending -acum Latinized instead of -acon in celtic.\n\nAfter 400, Anglo-Saxons took over the area and adapted the name by folk etymology to Old English Eoforwīc, which means "wild-boar town". The Proto-Germanic form of Old English eofor is *eburaz. York became Northumbria's centre of power later on. The Vikings, who took over the area later, in turn adapted the name by folk etymology to Norse Jórvík meaning "horse bay", like a town in Bohuslän at the time. This was reduced to York in the centuries after the Norman Conquest.
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Did you mean surname Hucks? I found one website that gives a good description of the origin, but I was unable to copy/paste it. The link is below :-)
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http://www.page-net.com/swansea.localhistory/llansamlet/pages/bgcoll.htm
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None at all.\nThe Romans built an empire, hundreds of miles of roads and aqueducts with no symbol to represent it.