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why london is called london?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    "London" came from the Roman name "Londinium". That in turn probably came from pre-Celtic Old European — Plowonida — from two roots, "plew" and "nejd", meaning something like "the flowing river" or "the wide flowing river".

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  • 1 decade ago

    The name 'London' is the Ango-Saxon version of the original Roman name - Londinium.

    Although there was a small Briton community living on the site of modern London, it was the Romans who founded the city soon after they invaded Britain in 42 AD, so the name has always been 'Londinium/London'.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    it was realy Babylon -don

    the global ruling masonary elite,whose original site was Babylon

    moved their head quarters to london ,the city of london like the vatican is a country on its own with its own laws ,

    but very few people are aware of this.

    just check how many Satanic or Pagan statues are to be found in the city and the streets are designed acording to satanic ritualistic symbols ,like Paris and many other main cities in the world.

    public information and History will give a different explanation of the cities ,the Roman name was Londinium

  • john b
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Ancient legend says it was named after King Lud.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    why is Africa called Africa? Why is my laptop called a laptop? why is my tv a tv? why ? who the hell knows... just these crazy people who make up the names

  • 1 decade ago

    Because it is. Why do you even want to know?

  • 1 decade ago

    well done alienaviator

  • 1 decade ago

    ....

    Words escape me. They really do.

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