Timeline for Was California named after a Moorish ruler called Queen Calafia?
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| Feb 27, 2021 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackHistory/status/1365587532143017985 | ||
| Feb 24, 2021 at 21:19 | history | edited | justCal | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 24, 2021 at 21:01 | history | protected | T.E.D.♦ | ||
| Jul 20, 2019 at 7:35 | comment | added | Luke Sawczak | Here's a 1921 article mentioning the invented country of Califerne that comes up in the middle of La chanson de Roland (11th century). Unfortunately it concludes nothing. | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 8:57 | comment | added | Alberto Yagos | The island of California was inspired by what Columbus wrote in his Diary (16th of January of 1493) about Matinino, an island in the Caribbean only populated by women. Columbus never saw it because "the waters were treacherous". It is sure that Montalvo got inspired by it to pick again the myth about the Amazons. | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 2:12 | comment | added | MAGolding | Queen Calafia and her island of California were almost certainly totally fictional. But I have read that Baja California was named after the fictional island of California, which in turned was fictionally supposed to be named after Queen Calafia. It may be noted that Calafia sounds similar to khalifa, or caliph, and that her taking an amazon force to a seige of Constantinople might be inspired by Queen Penthesilea and some amazons participating the Trojan War. | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 2:03 | comment | added | MAGolding | I once read a novelization of the Get Smart TV series (1965-1970) in which Smart visited a strange place. He was told that the place was named "Paradise", although some people called it after the founder, The Caliph of Fornia. | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 0:09 | answer | added | Jos | timeline score: 16 | |
| Aug 18, 2018 at 0:02 | history | edited | Emmanuel Dan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 23:57 | comment | added | Emmanuel Dan | @Semaphore Thanks for the input. I'm a newbie on this site. I got 100 points for free so I'm still learning about the rules. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 23:50 | history | edited | Lars Bosteen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 22:49 | history | edited | Semaphore | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 22:47 | comment | added | Semaphore | Please be aware that History.SE has a policy of closing questions that are "primarily opinion based". For this post I have attempted to edit the solicitations for opinions out - I think this question can be answered objectively by citing real scholarship - but please do keep the policy in mind when you word questions, thank you. | |
| Aug 17, 2018 at 22:43 | history | edited | Semaphore | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 17, 2018 at 21:07 | history | asked | Emmanuel Dan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |