Indeed, the toponym Arbanasi, a village near the city of Tarnovo, is a hint at Albanian settlement in the region.
Alternatively, the name is compared with the toponym Ararat or Urartu.
Another example is the German-speaking South Tyrol, which was annexed to Italy during World War I and eventually became the focus of assimilation policies (the conversion of toponyms into Italian by Ettore Tolomei, for example).
Breg is not only a common toponym in Slovenia, but also has equivalents in other Slavic languages (e.g., Brijeg in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Břehy in the Czech Republic, Brehy in Slovakia, and Brzeg in Poland), all derived from the Slavic common noun *bergъ 'slope, bank'.
Her series of poems 'Poemas de Caraguatá, I, II, III & IV', take their name from the Maia's reflections provoked by an indigenous toponym of Tacuarembó Department in the north of the country, which may variously refer to a range of hills Cuchilla de Caraguatá, a local town named after that range of hills, a local river, the Caraguatá River, or a local plant.
The Composite Gazetteer of Antarctica (CGA) of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR) is the authoritative international gazetteer containing all the Antarctic toponyms published in national gazetteers, plus basic information about those names and the relevant geographical features.
de Plancy is a French toponym, relating to Plancy-l'Abbaye
The Latin word is also continued in English divine, "deity", and the original Germanic word remains visible in "Tuesday" ("Day of Tīwaz") and Old Norse tívar, which may be continued in the toponym Tiveden ("Wood of the Gods", or of Týr).
The toponym is said to be derived from a skirmish during the English Civil War.
The Hauteville family is said to descend from Hiallt, a Norseman who is said to have settled in the Cotentin and founded the village of Hialtus Villa (Hauteville) in 920, the later family's toponym coming from this town.
An unusual example is the River Cam - it was originally called the Granta, but when the town of Grantebrycge became Cambridge, the river's name changed to match the toponym.
There are a number of toponyms that attest to the presence of the Jutes in the area, such as Ytene, which Florence of Worcester states was the contemporary English name for the New Forest.
The toponym Kingston Bagpuize is derived from the village's original name Kingston plus the surname of Ralph de Bachepuz, a Norman nobleman from Bacquepuis in Normandy who aided William of Normandy in the Norman conquest of England in 1066.
In the late Middle Ages, it was common for Hungarian noble families with names derived in a similar way from a toponym to spell their names with "y" at the end instead of "i", and/or with a doubled consonant before it.
The name Laudine is generally associated with Lodonensis (or Laudonensis), a Latinized form of the toponym Lothian.
It may have been inspired by the real-life Venetian surname Loredan, itself from the toponym Loreo.
The dedication of the Church of England parish church to the Saxon Saint Kenelm and the name "Minster" in the toponym suggest that the village may have had a Saxon minster, possibly associated with a Mercian royal vill.
Edvardas Gudavičius, a modern Lithuanian historian, based on toponyms, determined that the Bulaičiai family most likely came from the Šiauliai region.
Strabo and Pliny are the only surviving ancient sources who would be expected to discuss a Lycian toponym, but the placename is also attested by Isidore of Seville and Servius, the commentator on the Aeneid.
Toponym and toponymic surname Resende comes from "reths sinths", path to the council, the expedition's council.
São Caetano is the Portuguese language name for Saint Cajetan, and is a common toponym in parts of the world where that language is or was spoken.
"Sarayaku" or "Sarayacu" is a common Quechuan toponym, see e.g. Sarayacu District, Peru.
In October 2009, the Washington state Board of Geographic Names approved the Salish Sea toponym, not to replace the names of the Strait of Georgia, Puget Sound, and Strait of Juan de Fuca, but instead as a collective term for all three.
Simultaneous informative and symbolic, the title recalls a supposed etymology of the Telluride toponym.
The toponym Wensu (温宿) had appeared in historical records of the Western Han Dynasty of China as one of the 36 states in the Western Regions.