Coolest/most beautiful city names?

[Heresson]

There's a city called Ethessa in Greece but I don't know if it means something... could have a distinctive meaning though considering most of the names and words usually do around here but I don't know it.

Get to know about it!

[Bereta_Eder]

I think it has something to do with Assyria and Greece.... but I'm not at all sure

[Heresson]

Then another question; is Mathias "Mathiou" in Greek?

[Bereta_Eder]

It is Mattheas

[Heresson]

Then one guy was wrong...
Or is it me to remember wrongly what he's said?
No matter.
Oneday I'll learn Greek myself.

[Bereta_Eder]

Bon courage

One thing that you will like IMO is that you'll be able to automatically tell the etymology of many words you are already using (in most european languages) You'll be surprised to find out how much richness is hidden behind almost each word. Helps you to understand its meaning more wholly too.
(and automatically know what most medical and scientific words mean)

[Gangerolf]

Godthåb, that's a nice name. It means Good Hope. Too bad it's in Greenland

[Gangerolf]

Rotterdam ( Amsterdam reminds me of hamsters)

Rotterdam reminds me of rats


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'couple more:

Kandahar
Timbuktu
Christiania
Montreal
San Fransisco
Rovaniemi
Bloemfontein

[Static Universe]

I always thought the city of Thermopolis in Wyoming had a cool, futuristic sounding name. It probably isn't like that at all, but one can dream.

[Heresson]

Originally posted by paiktis22
Bon courage

One thing that you will like IMO is that you'll be able to automatically tell the etymology of many words you are already using (in most european languages) You'll be surprised to find out how much richness is hidden behind almost each word. Helps you to understand its meaning more wholly too.
(and automatically know what most medical and scientific words mean)

I already discovered some things.
I knew that one of the emperors named Michael (I don't remember the number, though.) had a sobriquet "Methystes", which ment that He used to like alcohol.
And a precious stone is named amethystos, and so I learned it's a stone keeping You from being drunk.
There are some remains of the Greek in Arabic; they say a word "qalam" comes from Greek. Also, I have learned that
Polish word haracz comes from Turkish, from Arabic tax, from greek name for a village, "chora". It is pretty logical as it was a tax for the land, but I didn't know about it until recently.