What is the origin of the name of your Province or State?
I live in Ontario which name was acquired from the Iroquois word kanadario which means Sparkling Water
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ArishMell · 70-79, M
I don't know the etymology of the name Dorset - which is not and never was "Dorsetshire" - but the county is part of the South-Western English region of Wessex. Though now vaguely-defined and not a formal administrative area, the suffix ~sex indicates Wessex was originally a Saxon kingdom.
One of Dorset's most famous geographical features is the bay bar made entirely of shingle, called Chesil Beach. Its name is from the Old English word cisel for... 'shingle'.
Other posts here show William Penn was the founder and first governor of the State of Pennsylvania. He was a Dorset native whose family home was on the original Portland, on the Dorset coast.
One of Dorset's most famous geographical features is the bay bar made entirely of shingle, called Chesil Beach. Its name is from the Old English word cisel for... 'shingle'.
Other posts here show William Penn was the founder and first governor of the State of Pennsylvania. He was a Dorset native whose family home was on the original Portland, on the Dorset coast.