Baja California and Baja California Sur. California (disambiguation) Etymology Toponymy United States History of California History of California before...

part of Mexico and discovered the Baja California peninsula. Cortés also spent time exploring the Pacific coast of Mexico. The Gulf of California was originally...

The Island of California (Spanish: Isla de California) was a long-held global misconception, dating from the 16th century, that the California region was...

suggests that the false etymology led to the myth. Herodotus used the terms Androktones (Ἀνδροκτόνες) 'killers/slayers of men' or 'of husbands' and Androleteirai...

The following is a non-exhaustive list of the etymologies of the place names in Los Angeles, California Pollack, Gina (July 22, 2019). "How To Speak LA:...

This is a list of place name etymologies in San Francisco, California. List of hills in San Francisco List of streets in San Francisco Henry C. Carlisle...

The U.S. state of California is divided into 58 counties. The state was first divided into 27 counties on February 18, 1850. These were further sub-divided...

This article lists the etymology of chemical elements of the periodic table. Throughout the history of chemistry, many chemical elements have been discovered...

Etymology of the Word 'California': Surmises and Usage". In Priestley, Herbert Ingram (ed.). California: The name. Berkeley: University of California...

when Edward Everett Hale concluded that the novel was the origin of the name California. The original Amadis was in three volumes, but Montalvo added a...

of California as being west of the Indies: Know, that on the right hand of the Indies there is an island called California very close to the side of the...

fictional return of Queen Calafia to present-day California, in celebration of the legendary queen and the etymology of California. Footnotes Putnam...

clearly visible in one of these. The fragments belong to the collection of the Bancroft Library at the University of California, Berkeley. They show that...

explorer who explored the west coast of present-day Mexico and the Baja California Peninsula under the commission of Hernán Cortés. Ulloa's voyage was among...

the first European known to have landed in the Baja California peninsula. Ximénez was the pilot of a ship, the Concepción, sent by Hernán Cortés and captained...

of Canadian provincial and territorial name etymologies List of places in the United States named after royalty Lists of U.S. county name etymologies...

the Wayback Machine," Online Etymology Dictionary "Зайцева М. И., Муллонен М. И. Словарь вепсского языка (Dictionary of Veps language). Л., «Наука», 1972...

[citation needed] List of U.S. state name etymologies List of Oregon county name etymologies Archbishop Blanchet (March 8, 1884). "Origin of the name Oregon"...

Descriptio is the earliest scale wall map of the New World and the first to use the name "California". The map consists of six neatly-joined engraved sheets....

derived from the location of the original settlement beside a khal (which means canal in English) According to a folk etymology, Britishers, when they visited...

William (February 10, 2010). California Place Names: The Origin and Etymology of Current Geographical Names. Univ of California Press. ISBN 9780520266193...

term hippie with disdain. Ronald Reagan, who was governor of California during the height of the hippie movement, described a hippie as a person who "dresses...

Pronunciation: US: /ˌkælɪfɔːrnjə, kælɪfɔːrniə/ Etymology: Etymology of California Official name: State of California Abbreviations and name codes Postal symbol:...

'tall stick') is a charter city in the northwestern corner of Santa Clara County, California, United States, in the San Francisco Bay Area, named after...

This is a list of common contemporary false etymologies for English words. Crap: The word "crap" did not originate as a back-formation of British plumber...

Ana River. Etymology Origin of the name California List of place names of Native American origin in California List of counties in California, including...

the different states on the east coast of the United States. In 1850, Bache sent him to California at the rank of Coast Survey assistant. For the next decade...

an area of California, roughly spanning the coastal region between Point Mugu and Monterey Bay. It lies northwest of Los Angeles and south of the San...

in various parts of the Arab world (such as Riyadh's as-Suwaidi district). List of country-name etymologies List of etymologies of administrative divisions...

southwestern region of the San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Situated between the foothills of the Santa Monica and...