Historical names

Post strange, interesting, aesthetic, fascinating historical names (of people, places, empires etc.)

>Seleucia-Ctesiphon
>Dionysius the Areopagite
>Galileo Galilei
>Gustav II. Adolf
>Hnanisho II.
>Tiglath-Pileser
>Šuppiluliuma
>Philipp Melanchthon
>Gordon Pasha
>Mengistu Haile Mariam
>Constantine the Dung-Named
>Diogenes
>Chikamatsu Monzaemon
>Syngman Rhee
>Bandar Seri Begawan
>The Khedive Isma'il
>Subutai
>Ögedei Khan
>Hülegü Khan
>The Golden Horde & The Ilkhanate
>Baybars
>The Dervish State
>Assurbanipal & Assurnasirpal
>Siddhartha Gautama
>Manzikert
>The Schmalkaldic League
>Baron Roman Nikolai Maximilian von Ungern-Sternberg
>The Bogd Khan
>Muhammad Ahmad al-Mahdi
>Usman dan Fodio & the Sokoto Caliphate
>The Varangian Guard
>The Pretorian Guard
>Caracalla, Geta, Elagabalus
>Sulla
>Karakorum
>Ikh Khüree - Urga - Ulaanbaatar
>Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu
>The Sultanate of Zanzibar
>Engelbert Dollfuss
>Netherlands East Indies
>Tenochtitlan
>Chiang Kai-Shek
>Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
>Atahualpa
>Lalibela
>Sijilmassa
>Democratic Kampuchea
>Congo-Brazzaville
>Francisco Franco
>The Straits of Malacca
>Tordesillas
>Antonio López de Santa Anna


Somewhat more contemporary:
>Hailemariam Dessalegn
>Bhumibol Adulyadej

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>>Diogenes
Top keks

This is actually a really good idea for a thread OP. Good job.

Goídel Glas (Latinised as Gaithelus) is the creator of the Goidelic languages and the eponymous ancestor of the Gaels.

Tubal-Cain is a person mentioned in the Hebrew Bible, in Genesis 4:22. He was a descendant of Cain, the son of Lamech (not the other Lamech, father of Noah) and Zillah. He was the brother of Naamah and half-brother of Jabal and Jubal.

is that a shoop or is she really catholic?

Either way she's adorable

> Le-a
Pronounced Ledasha and an example of the limitless creativity and beauty found in black american culture

Probably just from the photoshoot senpai. On that note: Saorise Ronan is a pretty fucking neato name.

>emperor Stefan Uros IV Dusan Nemanjic the Forceful

Chad is from Anglo-Saxon Caedda.

>Godfrey
>Tancred
>Baldwin
1st Crusade had the best names, though Enrico Dandolo's a pretty good one too.

Elagabalus

Also known as the most based Roman Emperor.

Alcibiades

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Had a pacha edit with a Spanish conquistador

K I N G D O O M
O F
K A N D Y

Allectus

I've used the name in a number of stories.

Suryavarman II

holy shit, I thought nobody else knew about that one! are you from louisiana?

People make that joke in the fucking UP dawg, it isn't obscure.

I'm not the guy you responded to.

amazing

Nebuchadnezzar

Yeah, I'm pretty sure the original story is from Detroit

I've met someone named la-a in new orleans, never heard of it otherwise

Golgotha, the name and the meaning sounds metal as fuck.

Koschei the Deathless of Slavic folklore is one of my favorites.

As far as organization names, an obscure German occult group named; "The Lords of the Black Stone" is cool too. Or the Confederate; "Knights of the Golden Circle"

Old Polish names are pretty neat.

Radochna - she who is joyful
Wojciech - he who gets joy from war
Mścisław - vengeful one
There's like fuckton of them here:
Częstowoj - he who fights often

pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Męskie_imiona_słowiańskie
pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Żeńskie_imiona_słowiańskie

Places with interesting names are my favourite desu

Transoxiana
Lake Titicaca
Haha and Hehe

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Chaver-Pada, 15-17th century Kingdom of Cochin had a tradition of sending a picked group of warriors every year during the Market Festival, they were called the Chaver Pada or the Death Brigade on a suicidal mission to slay a rival King in north Kerala called Samoothiri or Zamorin of Calicut.

They never succeeded after hundreds of tries.

Mourtzouphlos

Read my name.

Lucifer of Cagliari


> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucifer_of_Cagliari

Khal Drogo
Leader of the dohtrakis

Liutpert
Geoffrey
Ragnar
Arjuna
Cyrus
Othello
Marcus Antonius
Wenceslaus

Family names
Arpad
Capet
Karling
Peremsylid

Except the Baldwins were French and identified under the French form of the name, "Baudouin", which sounds like garbage

King Kamehameha

I like how Outremer is pronounced.

> Oo-treh-mare

No, I am from florida

>Constantine the Dung-Named
who the fuck is that?

>Dionysius the Areopagite

Ahhh m80 this is just a combination of the rather common name "Dionysius" (shared with the god and quite a few tyrants of Syracuse) and his job as a member of the Areopagus.

I'm a fucking britbong and my mother in law knows a black girl names L-a

Boemondo d'Altavilla, prince of Antioch and Taranto.

Ercole Farnese.
Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri (Dante).
Basil II Bulgaroctonus.
Nero Claudius Drusus Germanicus.
St.Ambrose.

Haraldr Hárfagri (Harald Fairhair)
Eiríkr Blóðox (Eirik Bloodaxe)
Haraldr Gráfeldr (Harald Greycloak)
Hákon jarl hinn ríki (Hakon the Mighty)
Óláfr hinn helgi (Olaf the Saint/ Olaf the Holy)
Haraldr Harðráði (Harald Hard-rule)
Oláfr Kyrri (Olaf the Peaceful)

Hawaiian royalty had some breddy gud names:

Kamehameha
Liliuokalani

One of my favorite royal titles, though is the Samoan "king" (it's actually a more complex system with multiple titles where the high kingship rotates through families, and the current family's right to the title is disputed by some claimants, but close enough): The title is "Malietoa", which supposedly comes from Tongan warriors shouting "well fought, great warrior!" ("mālie toa, mālie tau!") as they were driven back into their boats when the first of the royal line drove a Tongan invasion/raiding party out of Samoa.

For that matter, the Tu'i Tonga Empire has a pretty cool sci-fi aesthetic to it to me.

It was a joke when I was in middle school 10 years ago.

Can I request some cool titles/nicknames historical figures held? I am trying to come up with some for d&d NPCs

>not Jebe

>Columbanus
>Herod
>Phasael
>Aristobulus
>Altépetl
>John Scotus Eriugena
>Horatio Nelson
>William Westmoreland
>Erwin Rommel
>Salvador Allende
>Tuol Sleng
>Phocas
>Tlatelolco

Cant believe noone said Maximillian Robespierre

>also known in Sardinia as Saint Lucifer

Pretty much any ancient Greek name.

Antigonous Monothalmus (One Eyed)
Demetrius Poleokrates (The Beseiger)
Ptolemy ii Philedelphus (Brotherly-love)
Ptolemy iii Euergertes (Benefactor)

Ptolemy = Ptolemaios = Son of war

>No Aethelstan, Beowulf, Jesus, Gandalf, Harald, Thorin, Hermann, or Wuffa

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I like your list.