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    Zimmer (2006), Caledonia is derived from the tribal name Caledones (or Calīdones), which he etymologises as "'possessing hard feet', alluding to standfastness...
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    (a Latinization of a Brittonic nominative plural n-stem Calēdones or Calīdones, from earlier *Kalēdon[i]oi), which he etymologises as perhaps 'possessing...
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  • 1 June 1891 he was appointed auxiliary bishop of Naples and bishop of Calidone. He received the episcopal consecration on 21 June that year. On 12 June...
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    then spoken in most of the rest of Britain. "A tribe of Caledones or Calidones [are] named by the geographer Ptolemy as living within boundaries which...
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