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William Smith'in Yunan ve Roma Coğrafyası Sözlüğünden İsimler (1854)

Bu kez bir Türk'ün penceresinden.

C harfi

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Names from the Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography by William Smith (1854)

This time from the window of a Turk. 

Letter C 

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Tufts original	Meaning	Turkic word	Meaning	Further info
Cabassus	a village of Cappadocia	kaba: to swell	su: water
Caicus	A river in Mysia	KAYIK	a small boat
Camuni	An ancient people in Italy	KAMU	All together
Cangi	a people of Britain	Kang: cart, vehicle, sleigh
Candace	a place name in Asia	Kandak	a place with hills	There are still place names like Kandak or Bozkandak i Türkiye
Candara	a place name in Asia		ara: the place in between
Carallis	A city in Anatolia	kara: black	-li: suffix for „with“.
Carpessus	A town at seashore		su: water
Cephisus -Κήφισσος	name of 5 rivers in Ancient Greece	köp=many, much?	su: water
Cerasus	a Hellenic city on the sea	PTURK KIR: level ground,  edge,	su: water
CERCI´NA CERCINE CERCINITIS    CERCI´NIUM	these 4 geographic names have to do with water	OT: karkin: overflown	PTurk kar: to overflow
CEREATAE		Tae: dag (mountain)	KIR: mountain
Ceressus	Κερησσός	keri: back	su: water
Keretapa	Κερεταπεύς (today Kayadibi)	keri: back	tape: tepe?
Cersus	a river of Ciliciamentioned by Xenophon	keri: back	su: water
CHALA CHALAEUM CHALASTRA	town names	kala	to remain, to stay	>kale: castle
Characoma	a city of Arabia Petraea	kara: black	kum: sand	>black desert, Karakoma - see blog
Chersonesus	Χερσόνησος: 3 place names having relation to water		su: water
Cirradae	Κιρρᾶδαι: Wilson (Ariana, pl. 164) recognises in them an Indian people called the Kirátas, foresters and mountaineers.	kir: hill (beige color)	dae: tau (mountain)
Cnacion	Place name in Sparta	Konak	Neigbour, friend, guest	<Kon-: to spend a night
cocytus	a tributary of the river Acheron in Epeirus	qoqu	to smell badly
Coeletae	a Thracian people, divided into majores and minores, the former of whom dwelt at the foot of Mount Haemus, and the latter about Mount Rhodope	Tae: dag (mountain)	köl: lake
Coelos	a port-town in the Thracian Chersonesus on the Hellespont	Köl	lake, river	qol=river
Coli	a people of the Caucasus, in the north of Colchis, inhabiting a district called after them, Κωλική.	kol, kul	slave, servant
Coole	lake in Aethiopia	köl	lake
Comidava	Κομίδαυα, Ptol. 3.8.8), a town of Dacia,	komu: all together, come together	oba: dwelling place, camp
CORAX (Κόραξ, Ptol. 5.9.	small river placed by Ptolemy in Sarmatia Asiatica, and which, rising in the Coraxici Montes,--a western portion of the chain of the Caucasus,--flowed SW. into the Euxine Sea. It was the northern limit of Colchis. It is probable that the Chariens of Arrian (Peripl. p. 10), the Charien of Pliny	kuri-: to dry up	Kurak: dry	a dry river?
Coressus	A harbor on a Cyclades islands	Kori-: to protect	su: water	a good name for a harbor
Coropissus	Strabo (p. 568, 663), who says that the boundary between the Lycaonians and the Cappadocians is the tract between the village Coropassus in Lycaonia and Gareathyra, a small town of the Cappadocians		su: water
CRIMISUS or CRIMISSUS(Κριμισός, Lycophr., Dionys.; Κριμησός	a river of Sicily		su: water
Cyparissus	an ancient town of Phocis		su: water
Cyssus	Çešme in Türkiye		su: water

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