Encyclopedia > Latin names of European communities
Until the Modern Era, Latin was the common language for scholarship and mapmaking. During the 19th and 20th centuries, German scholars in particular have made significant contributions to the study of historical place names, or Ortsnamenkunde. These studies have, in turn, contributed to the study of Genealogy. For genealogists and historians of pre-Modern Europe, knowing alternate names of places is vital to extracting information from both public and private records. Even specialists in this field point out, however, that the information can be easily taken out of context, since there is a great deal of repetition of place-names throughout Europe; reliance purely on apparent connections should therefore be tempered with valid historical methodology.
Here are lists of small towns of villages other than cities in Europe in Latin.
Latin
English Name, [(other name(s))] or [older name(s)], [province], [state]
The Swedish name Carl Johannson, for example, would indicate that Carl is the "son of Johann," while the name Ingrid Hendricksdotter would indicate that Ingrid is the daughter (dotter) of Hendricks.
The fourth son is named for the father's eldest brother.
The fourth daughter is named for the mother's eldest sister.
This explains why Latin American treatises on law seek to present the law in the form of deductive systems; even though the result in most cases is nothing more than a commentary on a legal text, usually for professional reasons.
It is likely that in the future Latin American law schools will tend to differentiate themselves from one another by their ability to respond to this set of challenges.
Latin America has been prolific in producing constitutions, but it has lacked adherence to constitutional order; that is, truly effective cores of democracy and liberal spirit.
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