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DominusNovus
January 26th, 2004, 12:52 AM
As most of you know, I've got a roman timeline I'm working on right now. At this point, I'm trying to find the latin name for the Don river (I've actually found the latin name for the Volga river [at least an ancient name, the rha river], which is further from Rome, so I figure there must be a name for the don river). Anyone got any ideas?

PS. I'll probably bug you guys for other latin names in the future.

DominusNovus
January 27th, 2004, 12:05 AM
Just figured I'd tell you guys that I found an ancient name for the don, the tanais, which'll do for now.

Abdul Hadi Pasha
January 27th, 2004, 05:16 PM
As most of you know, I've got a roman timeline I'm working on right now. At this point, I'm trying to find the latin name for the Don river (I've actually found the latin name for the Volga river [at least an ancient name, the rha river], which is further from Rome, so I figure there must be a name for the don river). Anyone got any ideas?

PS. I'll probably bug you guys for other latin names in the future.

Here's all the cities:

http://www.lib.byu.edu/~catalog/people/rlm/latin/names.htm

Other Latin names:

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Latin-names-of-European-rivers

The Don River was, as you found, Tanais to the Romans.