[NR] NORTHERN REGIONALNAMING a list for heralds and timeline

[Marc Carlson]

Wikipedia has a reference to it, and it is noted on at least one 16th century map.  The fact that it is a SPANISH term for a region, or possibly a town, and not what the inhabitants called it doesn't seem to matter.

m/d

> Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2011 11:51:01 -0700
> From: rose_welch at yahoo.com
> To: northern at lists.ansteorra.org
> Subject: Re: [NR] NORTHERN REGIONALNAMING a list for heralds and timeline
> 
> Hang on, there may be hope yet! :)
> 
> "A geographical location will be considered significant if it is associated with important administrative, social, political or military events (e.g., a capital city, the site of a major treaty or battle, etc.)."
> 
> Well, it doesn't run against this part, because it was one of many, many places visited by Coronado and nothing important happened there, since it was just a basic farming town of that period.
> 
> "Geographic locations will generally be considered significant if they appear in standard references such as an encyclopedia."
> 
> It's not mentioned in the Brittanica, but I don't know about any other encyclopedias. Has anyone ever seen an encyclopedic reference to Quivara?
> 
> If not, then it's still in the running, is it not?
> 
> 
> -R
> 
> "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
> 
> --- On Thu, 6/9/11, Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> From: Marc Carlson <marccarlson20 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [NR] NORTHERN REGIONALNAMING a list for heralds and timeline
> To: northern at lists.ansteorra.org
> Date: Thursday, June 9, 2011, 1:44 PM
> 
> So, just to be clear, under SCA rules, it is impossible for any place that may have existed during period, to be acknowledged in a modern SCA name, even if it's appropriate for the modern place.  Ok, I'll have to add that to my list of "Why the SCA is not a Living History organization."
> 
> I withdraw the suggestion, you may with draw the name from consideration.
> 
> M/d
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