Jul-26-2010, 10:40 PM (UTC)
(This post was last modified: Sep-07-2011, 10:29 PM (UTC) by Farseer.)
On my recent trip to Turkey, I happened to read about an ancient city that was built across the Bosphorus from Byzantium. The city's name was Chalcedon and the surrounding hinterland was known as Chalcedonia. Both Byzantium and Chalcedon now form parts of the modern city of Istanbul, united by a bridge over the Bosphorus.
The similarity between Chalcedonia and Chalced is obviously too close for mere coincidence, especially given the near-eastern flavour of the Chalcedean culture described in RotE. Has anyone spotted any other cases of place names mined from history in RotE?
The similarity between Chalcedonia and Chalced is obviously too close for mere coincidence, especially given the near-eastern flavour of the Chalcedean culture described in RotE. Has anyone spotted any other cases of place names mined from history in RotE?
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