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Questions related to the history of terms used for identification, for people, places, things, concepts, times or ages, events, professions, systems, sciences, or any other real or imaginary items which have been or can be identified with identifying terminology.
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Why is Papadopoulos such a common surname in Greece?
In the Orthodox Church parish priests are virtually always married. Monks and higher clergy (Bishops etc.) are celibate.
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Is the name of "Diocletian" just a coincidence?
It is a Latin derivative of the Greek name Dioklēs, which is from dio- (the compositional stem of the divine name Zeus), plus –klēs (“fame”). So it means “with fame from Zeus”. It has nothing to do wi …
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Did all the the -stan sovereign state names appear synchronously?
In early New Persian (texts from the 10th century AD onwards) we have names like Turkistān “land of the Turks”, Čīnistān “China”, Hindūstān “India” and many others. … These names are all well known in the Persianate cultures of Central Asia and India, where -stān becomes a productive suffix for forming names of countries, even countries as far distant as Lehistan (the …
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