Sentence examples for its earliest name from inspiring English sources

The cliffs may even have given the country its earliest name.

William of Malmesbury in his De Antiquitate Glastonie Ecclesie gives the Old Celtic Ineswitrin (or Ynys Witrin) as its earliest name, and asserts that the founder of the town was the eponymous Glast, a descendant of Cunedda.

Renamed Troy, it reverted (1831) to its earlier name (derived from the Algonquian term Quequechan, meaning "Falling Water").

Though it is owned by Imperial Sugar, of Sugar Land, Tex., it is still referred to by its earlier name, Dixie Crystal, and Imperial still markets sugar under the Dixie Crystal brand.

The island probably was visited by the French explorer Étienne Brûlé in 1622, and its early name was Minong (Chippewa Indian for "Good High Place"); it was renamed by French Jesuit missionaries to honour their royal patrons.

It developed a lumbering and seaport trade and in 1805 readopted its earlier name of Saco (probably Sawacatucke Indian), meaning "Flowing Out".

It developed a lumbering and seaport trade and in 1805 readopted its earlier name of Saco (probably Sawacatucke Indian), meaning "Flowing Out". Ironworks (1811) and cotton mills (1826) formed the basis for its early economy.

It was known as Cotrone from the Middle Ages until the Italian form of its early name was restored in 1928.

Near the start in Virginia is a large natural cave that gave the gap its earlier name of Cave Gap.

Dr. McMullen, who is old enough to call the Hudson by its early name, the North River, recalls seeing the Queen Mary, the Queen Elizabeth, the Normandie.

Its early name was Manju-Patan; the present name refers to a wooden temple (kath, "wood"; mandir, "temple" or "edifice") said to have been built from the wood of a single tree by Raja Lachmina Singh in 1596.