NR - Region Names

[Burke McCrory]

At 07:54 PM 9/8/2000 -0500, you wrote:
>Emma wrote:
>><<  because as someone pointed out, we can *always* petition the
>>  Crown to change the name of our region if we want! >>
>
>Gitana wrote:
>>I didn't know Regions really had names, do they?  Do we have any other
>>regions in Anestorra with names?  What are they?
>
>I write:
>The regions do not have names so no petition is required.  We can call 
>ourselves whatever we wish; the crown refers to us as the Northern Region 
>or as Their northern lands.  We can call ourselves "land of those who 
>live, fight, and roll in red dirt" (in many different languages) if we 
>wish.  No petition comes into play unless we actually file for 
>principalityhood or want to change after we have.
>
>Etienne


The names of regions are completely unofficial from the SCA perspective 
because regions don't exist outside of the Kingdom.  So the regions can be 
called anything that the Kingdom wants.  Several Kingdom use descriptive 
names such as inland and river, some use directional such as northern, 
western (Ansteorra falls into that group) and some such as Aethelmearc use 
numbers region1, region2, etc.

Since the region's in Ansteorra were created by Royal edict, I also 
consider that the names the Crown gave them to be part of that edict, and 
the purview of the Crown.  So when the issue came up in the Southern 
region, I told them that if they could come up with a different name that 
most of the populace in the region supported,  they should petition the 
Crown to change the name.  I consider the changing of the name to be a 
modification of the original edict.  I am sure that if a region came to a 
Crown with a petition to change the name of their region, that was well 
thought out and supported by most of the populace of the region, they would 
receive a favorable response.


Sir Burke

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