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caledonia
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Roman name of part of northern Britain, taken from the name of former inhabitants, which is of unknown origin, perhaps Celtic; since 18c, applied poetically to Scotland or the Scottish Highlands. Related: Caledonian .
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 29702 Housing Units (2000): 14504 Land area (2000): 650.585442 sq. miles (1685.008488 sq. km) Water area (2000): 6.937459 sq. miles (17.967936 sq. km) Total area (2000): 657.522901 sq. miles (1702.976424 sq. km) Located within: Vermont ...
Wikipedia
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Caledonia is the Latin name given by the Romans to the land in today's Scotland north of their province of Britannia , beyond the frontier of their empire . The etymology of the name is probably from a P-Celtic source. Its modern usage is as a romantic ...
Usage examples of caledonia.
In return, we will immediately have shipped to Caledonia, and to your town of Aberdeen, enough repeating rifles and submachine guns to arm each of your clannsmen.
New Caledonia and New Delhi, from Dushanbe and Kuang-chou, from Kiev and Cairo.
The Tweed, several fathoms wide, digs a deeper trench between Scotland and England than the twenty leagues of Irish Channel, which separates Old Caledonia from the Emerald Isle.
Most families of Caledonia had at least as many children as that, and a large percentage of males was certainly preferable, considering the number of casualties taken by the clanns-men in raids and in defense of the flocks.
If such were not the bann, the vendettas would soon accumulate to such degree that all Caledonia would be depopulated.
Thus is youth, especially on Caledonia, where, long since, man and nature had eliminated the unfit.
It would seem that these men from the League, as they called it, were as mystified by the institutions of Caledonia as John and his fellow phyletics were by the ways of the men from Beyond.
He wondered how long it must take to come from the Beyond to Caledonia and how the otherworldlings could bear to be confined, whatever the time involved.
But if you plan to land anywhere on Caledonia, sooner or later the clannsmen would take their revengement.
Until nowhere on all Caledonia will you be safe from the revengement of the Hawks.
The Clann Hawk of every confederation on all Caledonia will hear of the shame done their bloodline and will be watching for you.
Surely there is no illness on all Caledonia more fearsome than the pox.
Obviously, some great power, un-known on all Caledonia, was involved, and these from Beyond controlled powers unbeknown to the holiest bedel or Keeper of the Faith.
We are interested in bringing, ah, civilization to Caledonia, so that its minerals can be exploited.
After that, Caledonia will have to be colonized all over again, soma being soma.