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    4 km (2.5 mi) wide, thus enlarging the original Poisson-Blanc lake. The toponym "Lac du Poisson-Blanc" was formalized in 1931 to designate this reservoir...
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    comune in northern Italy, in the autonomous region of Aosta Valley. The toponym Courmayeur has been mentioned as Curia majori (1233–1381), Corte Maggiore...
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    Hulder (section Toponyms)
    Hulder-related toponyms between the northern and southern reaches of Scandinavia, and the terms usage in different language groups' toponyms. Huldremose...
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  • River. It empties into the municipality of Saint-Cyrille-de-Wendover, Notre-Dame-du-Bon-Conseil and Sainte-Brigitte-des-Saults, in the Drummond Regional County...
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  • (Montmagny) between two series of falls and downstream of the Saint-Raphaël. The toponym "Petite rivière Sainte-Marguerite" was made official on July 10, 1969,...
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  • Poisson-Blanc Lake (or Poisson-Blanc Reservoir) in the municipality of Notre-Dame-du-Laus, in the Antoine-Labelle Regional County Municipality, in administrative...
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    the Indo-European radical *lūg ('dark, black, swamp'), the basis of the toponyms Ludza in Latvia, Lusatia in Germany (from Sorbian Łužica), and several...
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    According to Dauzat, the toponym comes from the name of a saint, Amator.: 569  According to Gaston Bazalgues, the toponym Rocamadour is a medieval form...
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    containing the local toponym's transcription; (2) 堤岸 has variant form 提岸, thus suggesting that both were transcriptions of a local toponym and thus are cognates...
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    main city and capital of the civitas Riedonum in Roman Gaul. Condate is a toponym of Gaulish origin which refers to a river confluence. Riedonum comes from...
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