Geography

[Togas]

Please use this thread to propose names for the land on which we live and the features around us.

I will officially select names for our world. I intend to give honor to the leaders of the expeditions who mapped out our world and name other landmarks from their role in our history.

My first act of naming will be to name the great mountain range that travels between Pamplona and Madrid .. moving east into the jungle and west into the unexplored desert. This range is called the Eneros Mountains ... or Las Montañas de Eneros. It is named after my father who climbed to the top of those mountains and proclaimed that Spain would settle the La Valle de los Torros.

--Togas

[Crousto]

While exploring the crescent-shaped mountain range near the ocean (North of Madrid), the Madrid expedition has been fascinated by all the local gold and diamond sources.
Therefore I suggest 'Sierra Brillantes' (shining mountains) for this mountain range.

[E_T]

The plains that are to the South and West of Madrid, between the Ocean and the hills, where the Spices have been uncovered, I'd like to name the Tamali Plains ([ooc] don't have the spanish wording for this, could someone translate[/ooc]). For what is a good Tamali, without some spices to go with it...

Letus Eta Tamali

[Togas]

I have taken the most recent map of Spain and am now placing names on all of the features. In a day or two, after most of the suggestions are in, I'll post a link to this map.

--Togas

[E_T]

[ooc] when we get map making

when we get map making, and we trade our World map, not only should we do the regular Game trade, but we should send the specific Nation a picture, with all of our place names on it (both in english & spanish).

If we only trade the Territory Maps, then the parts of the map that have the named terrain features, should be traded, same as above.

E_T

[Hot Mustard]

At some point in the centuries ahead, I imagine the Dejon family may leave Madrid to settle a new city of España - though I know not where. Along such a trip to the city site, we may come up with names for prominent landscape features.

[OOC]
While I have no problems with everyone throwing suggestions "into the ring" for things, I think it would fit well with roleplay to have those charged with settler units (the future city governers) name prominent geographic features along their trip, and then around their city.

It is concievable because as settlers would normally travel more slowly over land than military units, they would spend more time in each place, and come up with names for landmarks, especially since they would also be considering the merits of settling in the lands they walk through.

If the team agrees, ruby_maser would be charged with deciding the names for features around Pamplona, and the future governor at site #1 (east coast) would have the same duty. They could name things either as they wished, or draw from team suggestions.
[/OOC]

[jdjdjd]

Originally posted by E_T
The plains that are to the South and West of Madrid, between the Ocean and the hills, where the Spices have been uncovered, I'd like to name the Tamali Plains ([ooc] don't have the spanish wording for this, could someone translate[/ooc]). For what is a good Tamali, without some spices to go with it...

Letus Eta Tamali

Llanos De Tamali

[GodKing]

I can see people having too much fun with this..... better watch out. I know a lot of diryt words in spanish......

[Ninot]

I suggest that not all our names be descriptive, or named after people. I thus suggest that we make some names to SOUND spanish, but actually make no sense in any relevant language.

[History Guy]

The Lonely Mountain stands north of Madrid, as you all know, and Lonely is the name given to it only because it is, of course, alone. There are no surrounding mountains.

However, I'd like to make a humble suggestion.

According to [Marcius Togianicus] Plothinus' Historia de Iberium, the Lonely Mountain was once the sight of a tremendous battle. According to the history, the Calamarquist Tribe had built a huge fortress there, and indeed, a portion of the keep still survives on Ghernicus' peak. There it was, so it says, the battle of the Squidimark was fought between the Calamarquists and the rampaging Vandals. The other tribes were amassing armies southward to come and fight the threat, but the most northerly tribe, the Calamarquists, my tribe, were under the first attacks, and lost some towns to the barbarous marauders. Don Francisco de History Guy Calamari the Elder there stood against waves of Vandal attackers in his keep, and won the name 'Hammerhand' for his valiant defense of the Squidimark as the rest of the tribes came up with their armies, surrounded the Vandals on the slopes of the Lonely Mountain, and crushed them. According to the histories, ten thousand Vandals, including their king Geneseric, died that day under a raging tempest in the last Battle of the Squidimark, the most glorious day in the history of the Calamarquist family.

I would like to ask that, in memory of the four thousand who fell in defense of Hispania in the Squidimark Keep, the Lonely Mountain be renamed simply 'The Squidimark'. Next to Santiago and Giant's Crossway, this is the largest battle in Spanish history, and should be thus remembered.

There is another reason, close also to my heart. It was where my father spent two years writing poetry and philosophy, and where he would have gone if he had not died so suddenly, for being in his blood, he loved no place better.

And so, once again, I ask that the mountain be named the Squidimark.

Hernan de History Guy Calamari the Younger
A Son of Madrid

[Aidun]

Oliverfa, do you know the spanish translation of this: squidimark and Giant's Crossway. Thanks

Aidun Cian the Older

[ruby_maser]

I saw a photo of a crop circle one time, and for some reason it was called Giant's Grave. I don't know if it was referring to a region or the actual crop circle or what... ...but I always thought it was a cool name.

Does anyone know what that translates to in spanish?

[History Guy]

The Giant's Crossway has itself an interesting legend, as all we Spanairds know.

For according to the Mythologia of Togasticus Naso, it was the crossing ford of the army of giants over from one side of the bay to the other. We of course know it to be the best squidding spot in all Spain, for it is a long chain of small, rocky islands that are connected at low tide by a sandbar, and that is the only time it can be crossed without need of a canoe. At the beginning of time, the giant men crossed over the Crossway to invade creation, only to be destroyed utterly by the army of the spirits. Thus the area gets it's name.

The Battle of Giant's Crossway was, of course, the second and last great battle in the war against the Visigoths led by Togas the Magnificent, before he was crowned Thane Lord in 4000 BC. After Santiago, the only other Visigoth army was stationed at Giant's Crossway, under Vergwen, the second son of Alaric. The army was fought down the cliffsides to Giant's Crossway, and there entrapped on the sandbar, and laid siege. When high tide came, of course, our soldiers stopped the attack, pulled away, and waited. The tide came in, drowning thousands of the enemy. The rest were slain in trying to escape. Thus Giant's Crossway is rightly remembered as the final battle to destroy Visigoth power, and gain freedom for the tribes.

Hernan de History Guy Calamari the Younger
Squid Baron

[jdjdjd]

First, mythology in español is mitologÃa.
Giant's Grave is Sepulcro Del Gigante
There is no transaltion for Squidimark - but Marca del calamar is Mark of the Squid which is really cool.
Giant's Crossway - De Crossway Del Gigante
or in the alternative Giant's Crossroads - Encrucijada Del Gigante
or Giant's Cross Way - Manera cruzada del Gigante - cool one
which is better sounding because of the fact Crossway is not a word and thus can't be translated to Spanish but crossroads can be.

Old Legion has it that there was a Giant who lived in the area and he was later killed by a child named Ricardo, who tricked the Giant to chase him off the Mountains that now separate Pamplona and Madrid. The Giant fell off the mountain, landing just outside of Madrid where the grasslands and wheat fields now are. The river was created from the blood theflowed.

That could be Sepulcro Del Gigante.

[Togas]

... I need a real graphic program the one I was using was happily allowing me to move the text around, change and edit it on the fly, but once I saved it, the text is now imbedded in the image and if I want to make any changes, I have to redo the whole map itself.

That lonely mountaintop that you call "Squidmark" to the North of Madrid ... I'm far more fond of it's original name, "Ghernicus' Peak." Squidmark sounds too much like Skidmark.

The lonely moutain to the north of Pamplona was named by the T.E.G. It is called Sierra Panthera.

--Togas