General Acapulco (as in ... gold) Angora Armageddon Auschwitz Babel Balkanization (from the Balkans) Bantustan Bay St Beltway Berlin Wall Bible, bibliography (named after location of Bublos or Byblos) Bikini the Blarney and Blarney Stone (from Blarney Castle) Boetian Bohemian Bombay duck and mix. Bordeaux Brazilianization Bronx Cheer Brummagem (denotes goods of shoddy quality, from Birmingham) Bungalow Burgundy Byzantine Canary Cantaloupe (named after the Pope's summer residence of Cantalupo) Carthaginian (peace) Caucasian Champagne Chautauqua China Chinese Wall Sent to Coventry Cuban (sub sandwich in Florida) Denim Detroit Dijon Dixieland (properly Dixie's Land) Dollar Donneybrook Doolally Duffel coat (named after a town in Belgium) Dunkirk spirit Eden (place of dubious existence) El Dorado Essex ('common' or 'nouveau riche' sensibility) Fez (hat) Finlandization Frankfurter Georgia (font) Gibraltar Greek (all Greek to me) Gypsy (from Egyptian) Hamburger Havana (cigar) Hell (place of dubious existence) Hicksville Holland (cotton or linen fabric) Hollandaise Hollywood Iliad (see Troy) Indian Java Jersey (tomato, milk, cream, as well as jumper) Jerez (sherry) Labyrinth Left Bank Lesbian (from Lesbos) Lilliputian (from Gulliver's Travels) Madison Avenue Magenta Manhattan cocktail Marathon Madeira (cake as well as drink) Madras (plaid) Manchester (as in textiles) Manila Marseillaise Masada Mausoleum (technically this is a building, rather than a region) Mecca Mocha Mongoloid Motown Maus Neanderthal Nuremberg (defense) Olympian, Olympics (from Mount Olympus) Paisley Palookaville Peking Duck (see also Peking) Peoria Peyton Place Port wine, (from Oporto, Portugal) Rubicon Rugby (but Rugby shirt and Rugby ball are not considered toponyms) Salisbury Steak (one of many British foods named after places) Sardine Seltzer (commercial name) Shambala Shanghai (verb) Shangrai-la (mythical) Siamese (cats, twins) Sent to Siberia Sodomy (see Sodom) Solecism Spa (resort in Belgium) Stalingrad Surrey (horse-drawn carriage) Timbuktu Trojan Horse (see Troy) Trojaned Utopia (fictional place) Wall Street Watergate Woodstock Xanadu (fictional place) Zion Events/Agreements Hiroshima Kyoto Maastricht Munich Oslo Potsdam Seattle Yalta Waterloo Cheese American Aveyron(nais) Caerphilly Cheddar Cheshire Colby Derby Gloucester Gorgonzola Gouda Gruyere Lancashire Leicester Limburg(er) Monterey (Jacks) Munster Parme(san) Roma(no) Roquefort Stilton Swiss Tilsit Wensleydale Elements Americium (the United States of America) Berkelium (Berkeley, home of University of California, Berkeley) Californium (California, home of University of California) Erbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden) Europium (Europe) Francium (France) Gallium (Gallia, Latin name for France) Germanium (Germany) Hafnium (Hafnia, Latin name for Copenhagen) Holmium (Holmia, Latin name for Stockholm) Lutetium (Latetia, old name for Paris) Magnesium (Magnesia, district in Thessaly) Polonium (Poland) Rhenium (Rhenus, Latin name for Rhine) Ruthenium (Ruthenia, Latin name for Russia) Scandium (Scandia, Latin name for Scandinavia) Strontium (Strontiun, town in Scotland Terbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden) Thulium (Thule, ancient name for Scandinavia) Ytterbium (Ytterby, village in Sweden) Yttrium (Ytterby, village in Sweden) See also: Chemical element
