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Latin names of European communities

Until the Modern Era, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking. During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde. These studies have, in turn, contributed to the study of Genealogy. For genealogists and historians of pre-Modern Europe, knowing alternate names of places is vital to extracting information from both public and private records. Even specialists in this field point out, however, that the information can be easily taken out of context, since there is a great deal of repetition of place-names throughout Europe; reliance purely on apparent connections should therefore be tempered with valid historical methodology.

Here are lists of small towns of villages other than cities in Europe in Latin.

Latin	English Name, [(other name(s))] or [older name(s)], [province], [state]
Alberti campus	Champaubert, France
Antipatris	Kafr Saba
Arpajonum, Arpajoni castrum, Arpacona	Arpajon, Paris, France
Asopus	Aspe, Germany
S. Audoeni fanum, villa od. domus	Saint-Ouen, Paris, France
Augustodurum, Bajocae, Bajocassium civitas	Bayeux, France
Crisenaria	Cressy, France
Cruciniacum	Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Damma, Dammum	Damme, Belgium
Damovilla	Damville, France
Horgana	Hargen, Netherlands
Mopsuestia¹	Missis
Spinetum, Spinogelum, Spinoilum, Espinolum	Épinay-sur-Orge, Paris, France
Viminiacum	Kostolac

¹ - originally a city

partial list

See also:

• List of Roman place names in Britain, includes Ireland, Faeroe Islands, and Iceland.
• Latin names of regions
• Latin names of European rivers
• Latin names of cities
• Latin names of communities
• Latin names of European cities
• Latin names of geographical features
• Latin names of islands
• Latin names of lakes
• Latin names of mountains
• Latin names of rivers
• Roman place names

External link

• Place Names of Europe
• http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Graesse/contents.html

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