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Neustria: A French-speaking 14th-century western European kingdom in Leslie Barringer's Neustria cycle of historical fantasy. An actual Neustria existed from about the 6th to the 10th century, when it was absorbed into France. Neutralia: Fictional version of Portugal from Arrival and Departure by Arthur Koestler.
Kakariko Village (カカリコ村, Kakariko-mura) is a fictional village of The Legend of Zelda series that appears in A Link to the Past, Ocarina of Time, Four Swords Adventures, Twilight Princess, A Link Between Worlds, and Breath of the Wild. Kakariko is often portrayed as a prosperous small town. Karnaca. Dishonored 2.
Victoria, British Columbia. Vigornia. Worcester, England; Worcester, Massachusetts. Vindobona. Vienna, Austria. Latinized form of a Greek name. Naples/Neapolis is a rare exception to the rule of Latinization of foreign city names owing to the fact that it was established by the Greeks and predates Rome by many centuries.
Laistrygon. Home to a tribe of giant cannibals that Odysseus encountered on his way back home from the Trojan War . Meropis. A gigantic island created purely as a parody of Plato 's Atlantis . Mount Olympus. "Olympos" was the name of the home of the Twelve Olympian gods of the ancient Greek world.
Ancient (bracketed) and modern places in the Iberian peninsula which have names containing the Celtic elements -brigā or -bris < -brixs 'hill, hillfort'. The Celtic toponymy of Galicia is the whole of the ancient or modern place, river, or mountain names which were originated inside a Celtic language, and thus have Celtic etymology, and which are or were located inside the limits of modern ...
Algonquin Bay is a small town in Northern Ontario, a fictionalized version of the city of North Bay . Alissar. Lyon Sprague de Camp. Novarian series. A Novarian city-state. Al-Ybi. Terry Pratchett. Discworld. Al-Ybi is a mostly unremarkable desert city in Klatch.
Genosha: an island nation which was established as a mutant homeland in Marvel Comics. Ghalea: a small African nation whose pro-Western government is key to stability in the area, from the Mission: Impossible episode "The Money Machine". Ghudaza: Small fictional country bordering Wakanda. From the Marvel Comics.
The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...