Re:Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
by tigershark on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:37AM
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Reggio Calabria Italian name comes from the Greek name Rhegion.
It was founded by Greek colonists pretty much at the same time as the foundation of Rome. Reggio Emilia name comes from the Latin regium.
Re:Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
by toyg on Friday March 05, 2021 @02:27PM
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Under Roman rule, Reggio Calabria was Regium too. And its original foundation is actually likely to pre-date the Greeks...
Re:Tintern 'secret' medieval tunnel system found by accident
by tigershark on Friday March 05, 2021 @05:59PM
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I never denied it, I just explained that the origin of the name is completely different and it was translated in Latin from the ancient Greek name.
Yup. There are plenty of them in Italy, we don't use dashes but there are various towns with generic prefixes and suffixes. Reggio Emilia and Reggio Calabria were just "regium", Latin for region or town, and at some point they gained the extra name (which refers to the wider area) to differentiate them. Near my hometown we have Casalecchio di Reno, which means "bunch of houses over the river Reno"; there are loads of river-denominated towns all over Italy. And there are loads of "Castello Something", since castello means castle or castrum - as you might imagine, there are quite a few of those across the country.