France
Most cities had an ancient name, usually in Latin, often of older Celtic origin
- Agedincum → Sens
- Aginnum → Agen
- Andemantunum → Langres
- Antipolis → Antibes
- Aquae Sextiae → Aix-en-Provence
- Arausio → Orange
- Arelate → Arles
- Argentoratum → Strassburg → Strasbourg
- Augustobona → Troyes
- Augustodunum → Autun
- Augustodurum → Bayeux
- Augustonemetum → Clermont-Ferrand
- Autessiodurum → Auxerre
- Autricum → Carnotum → Chartres
- Avaricum → Bourges
- Avennio → Avignon
- Bagacum → Bavai
- Burdigala → Bordeaux
- Caesarodunum → Tours
- Carcaso → Carcassonne
- Cenabum → Cenabum Aureliani → Aurelianum → Orléans
- Cularo → Gratianopolis → Grenoble
- Divodurum → Metz
- Divona → Cahors
- Durocortorum → Reims
- Elimberris → Auch
- Forum Iulii → Fréjus
- Gesocribate → Brest
- Gesoriacum → Bononia → Bonen (aan zee)/ Boulogne-sur-Mer
- Iluro → Oléron
- Iuliomagus → Angers
- Lapurdum → Bayonne
- Limonum → Poitiers
- Lugdunum → Lyon
- Lutetia → Paris
- Massilia → Marseille
- Matisco → Mâcon
- Mediolanium → Saintes
- Mediolanum Aulercorum → Évreux
- Metis → Metz
- Narbo Martius → Narbonne
- Nemausus → Nîmes
- Nemetacum → Arras
- Noviodunum Aeduorum → Nevirnum → Nevers
- Portus Namnetum → Nantes
- Rotomagus → Rouen
- Samarobriva → Amiens
- Segodunum → Rodez
- Senones → Sens
- Strasburg → Strasbourg
- Tolosa → Toulouse
- Valentia → Valence, Drôme
- Vesontio → Besançon
- Vienna → Vienne
- Wissemburg → Wissembourg
Read more about this topic: List Of City Name Changes
Famous quotes containing the word france:
“While learning the language in France a young man’s morals, health and fortune are more irresistibly endangered than in any country of the universe.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)
“The anarchy, assassination, and sacrilege by which the Kingdom of France has been disgraced, desolated, and polluted for some years past cannot but have excited the strongest emotions of horror in every virtuous Briton. But within these days our hearts have been pierced by the recital of proceedings in that country more brutal than any recorded in the annals of the world.”
—James Boswell (1740–1795)
“The bugle-call to arms again sounded in my war-trained ear, the bayonets gleamed, the sabres clashed, and the Prussian helmets and the eagles of France stood face to face on the borders of the Rhine.... I remembered our own armies, my own war-stricken country and its dead, its widows and orphans, and it nerved me to action for which the physical strength had long ceased to exist, and on the borrowed force of love and memory, I strove with might and main.”
—Clara Barton (1821–1912)