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[[Judetul Alba]] or [[Alba County]] is a Romanian administrative district, located in central Transsylvania. Population: 390.000. Main cities: [[Alba Iulia]] - former capital of Transsylvania in early modern times; Sebes - trading center on the southern part of the district, [[Abrud]] - ancient city and former Roman "Colonia Alburnus Minor", main center of the gold-mining during the Roman Empire, [[Campeni]] - the capital of Tara Motilor, Aiud, Cugir, Ocna Mures, Teius. |
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In Romanian language, "alba" means "white", from the latin word "alba". It should be noted that the Romanian language mantain most of the original latin words and did not replaced "alba" with "blanc", like the rest of the Romanic languages. |
In Romanian language, "alba" means "white", from the latin word "alba". It should be noted that the Romanian language mantain most of the original latin words and did not replaced "alba" with "blanc", like the rest of the Romanic languages. |
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Judetul Alba or Alba County is a Romanian administrative district, located in central Transsylvania. Population: 390.000. Main cities: Alba Iulia - former capital of Transsylvania in early modern times; Sebes - trading center on the southern part of the district, Abrud - ancient city and former Roman "Colonia Alburnus Minor", main center of the gold-mining during the Roman Empire, Campeni - the capital of Tara Motilor, Aiud, Cugir, Ocna Mures, Teius.
In Romanian language, "alba" means "white", from the latin word "alba". It should be noted that the Romanian language mantain most of the original latin words and did not replaced "alba" with "blanc", like the rest of the Romanic languages.
Alba is the Scottish Gaelic name (IPA: [ˈaɫəpə]) for Scotland. It is cognate to Albain in Irish Gaelic and Albey in Manx, the other Goidelic Insular Celtic language, as well as similar words in the Brythonic Insular Celtic languages of Cornish (Alban) and Welsh (Yr Alban) also meaning Scotland.
Hence also the early classical name Albion. It was used by the Gaels to refer to the island as a whole until roughly the ninth or tenth centuries, when it came to be the name given to the kingdoms of the Picts and the Scots (Pictavia and Dál Riata), north of the River Forth and the Clyde estuary, traditionally considered to have been unified by Kenneth Mac Alpin.
As time passed that kingdom incorporated others to the south. It became Latinized in the High Medieval period as "Albania" (it is unclear whether it may ultimately share the same etymon as the modern Albania). This latter word was employed mainly by Celto-Latin writers, and most famously by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It was this word which passed into Middle English as Albany, although very rarely was this used for the Kingdom of Scotland, but rather for the notional Duchy of Albany. From the latter the capital of the U.S. state of New York, Albany, takes its name.