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What inspires your city name?
Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 10:33
by AwkwrdPrtMskrt
The purpose of this thread is for us to share what is the basis or inspiration for the names you give your cities (roleplay countries' names are also valid).
For example the city I'm working on is called New Winchester. It's heavily based on New York City. The name of course is based on New York, as well as Winchester, the town in England.
I had originally wanted to use "New Lancaster", due to the fact that in the War of Roses, house Lancaster was the rival to house York (possible Game of Thrones reference?) However that name has already been in use by the Lancaster Kingdom.
With "New Lancaster" not possible to use, I decided to use "New Winchester" instead, as "Winchester" rhymes with "Lancaster", and I am interested in firearms (Winchester rifles and shotguns among them).
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 10:41
by AvenJZR
I actually don't know mine....
I just wanted a Malay-sounding city name and out came Telang.
EDIT: I just searched Telang in Google and pictures of a flower came out.
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 11:06
by Brody Craft
Every city i named is based off of complete wrecked gibberish.
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 11:08
by Wekabu city
Sotopico, Wekabu and Lemedia were picked by luck, the first time they were used 3-4 years ago.
Bachtung comes from "Achtung" wich means "Warning" or something like that. It was first used in Age of Empires 3 (still better than Anno 2070) 3 years ago.
I originally wanted to use "Luna" but the both died for an unknown reason, so I tried to invent a new name. For some reason I thought about "Black" and "side", so "Blacksides" was born. I have no idea why "Kansas" was thrown in too.
I like to invent new names, but I don't like to use pre-existing names.
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 12:41
by Mr. French
AwkwrdPrtMskrt wrote: ↑20 Jan 2018, 10:33
The purpose of this thread is for us to share what is the basis or inspiration for the names you give your cities (roleplay countries' names are also valid).
For example the city I'm working on is called New Winchester. It's heavily based on New York City. The name of course is based on New York, as well as Winchester, the town in England.
I had originally wanted to use "New Lancaster", due to the fact that in the War of Roses, house Lancaster was the rival to house York (possible Game of Thrones reference?) However that name has already been in use by the Lancaster Kingdom.
With "New Lancaster" not possible to use, I decided to use "New Winchester" instead, as "Winchester" rhymes with "Lancaster", and I am interested in firearms (Winchester rifles and shotguns among them).
1.I took real city name next to me for example Beaume els messieurs
2.my imagination for example at shirePORT there is no water and and port so I create it
3. my mom. Yes my know really good city name for e ample st Martin
Hope it can help you
Re:
Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 13:00
by malsa
This is how i got the name of Shireport
1:Lot of the city or town in England was named as "Shire" Like Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire and Lancashire
2:And about port i got in the busiest port in the world and Boom...Shireport
Re: Re:
Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 16:07
by -LeoLeo-
A guy from Shireport wrote: ↑20 Jan 2018, 13:00
This is how i got the name of Shireport
1:Lot of the city or town in England was named as "Shire" Like Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Cheshire and Lancashire
2:And about port i got in the busiest port in the world and Boom...Shireport
I have a Shire, I have a Port, UGH, Shireport-!
This meme if getting old...
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 21:04
by JustAnyone
Domkisas consists out of my real life name Dominykas.
Then I chalked some letters out and put i before k = Domksas>Domkisas
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 20 Jan 2018, 21:58
by Matt_ds_lasar
Most of the cities I work on is based of cool sounding gibberish inspired from mostly crude Spanish I dub as 'Rullego'
Campaymez means 'Field on the Hill' and Bela Hviern means 'Good Summers' (despite being the coldest and northernmost main city in its country)
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 22 Jan 2018, 10:44
by Pounkiller
I am doing a Northern Germany themed map so...
All city and town names are German (duh)
And the map's name ''Kleines Nördliches Land(von Deutschland)'' means ''Little Northern Land (of Germany)''
I still did not found a proper name for my Hamburg-Berlin inspired city in the middle of the map...
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 06:22
by TheFennekin
Just imaginary names and sometimes, if it fits the city I'll build
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 14:59
by Kylie Schreave
Almost all of my cities are or were real cities, like for example :
- Hanyang and Hanseong were how Seoul was called in the past,
- Wandu and Hwando are the name of one unique city that is now in ruins, but that was not romanized the same way.
- Saikyô was a nickname of Kyoto in the past
- Edokko is a word used to appoint the people that was born and that live in Tokyo.
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 24 Jan 2018, 15:17
by ArchaeoPX
All of my city names are... pretty much made up, as long as they sound somewhat Slavic... (Except Nurura and Alsevo; I don't clearly know why I picked these names.)
As for the country "Arkhaza", it's a corruption of my username and alias: ArchaeoPX.
Archaeo >> Arch >> Arkh >> Arkhaza
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 25 Jan 2018, 20:42
by Pounkiller
I am trying to find a proper name for my Hamburg-Berlin inspired city
and these are the candidates;
(you can help me choose by all means)
Flachburg
Hafenburg
Winsenburg
Harburg
Harburg am Dermin (Harburg on Dermin river)
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 10:53
by Kylie Schreave
Harburg am Dermin sounds good imo
@Pounkiller
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 11:28
by Pounkiller
Yes, I was thinking that too,
Actually,Harburg is a district of Hamburg and Dermin is a town just out side of Hamburg.
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 26 Jan 2018, 19:17
by -LeoLeo-
My district names are inspired by the hundreds of planets from Ratchet & Clank series...
The country name is a different story...
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 13:54
by TheOracle
Kristia is the name of the person I admire. Keanna, Charles, daphnia are my best friends. Most names I come up with are name my classmates or friends.
idk how I come up with Svostine.
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 10 Feb 2018, 15:56
by FranchuFranchu
My city names are word plays from spanish (San means Saint):
San Atorio = Sanatorio = Hospital
San Itario = Sanitario = Bathroom
La Vanda = Lavanda = A cleaning product
Mini Atura = Miniatura = Small
These aren't:
Hipow = High Power
Var = Variable
Re: What inspires your city name?
Posted: 03 Mar 2019, 09:36
by RayXP
AwkwrdPrtMskrt wrote: ↑20 Jan 2018, 10:33
The purpose of this thread is for us to share what is the basis or inspiration for the names you give your cities (roleplay countries' names are also valid).
For example the city I'm working on is called New Winchester. It's heavily based on New York City. The name of course is based on New York, as well as Winchester, the town in England.
I had originally wanted to use "New Lancaster", due to the fact that in the War of Roses, house Lancaster was the rival to house York (possible Game of Thrones reference?) However that name has already been in use by the Lancaster Kingdom.
With "New Lancaster" not possible to use, I decided to use "New Winchester" instead, as "Winchester" rhymes with "Lancaster", and I am interested in firearms (Winchester rifles and shotguns among them).
Have you ever heard of places with the same name?