Lorraine
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Lorraine can refer to:
- Lorraine (region): the modern-day French administrative région of Lorraine, which is larger than the historical province of Lorraine, as it includes other provinces and areas which historically were separate from Lorraine proper. The appropriate link from geographical point of view.
- Lotharingia: the name Lorraine and the territory that became the historical province of that name are both derived from the medieval duchy Lotharingia, from 959 divided into the duchies of
- Lower Lorraine
- Upper Lorraine (which became modern Lorraine).
The independent Duchy of Lorraine (959 - 1766) is equivalent to Upper Lorraine.
- Lorraine (province): the later French province of Lorraine.
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[edit] Places
Various places and things have been named after the French province:
- Lorraine, Kansas (USA)
- Lorraine Motel site of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination.
- Lorraine, New York (USA)
- Lorraine, North Dakota (USA)
- Lorraine, Ontario (Canada)
- Lorraine, Quebec (Canada)
- the French battleship Lorraine, of World War II
[edit] First name
Lorraine is also used as a feminine name, above all in the US and Canada, after World War I, during which events brought Lorraine to the North American public imagination. Famous people with this name, none of them French, include:
- Lorraine Bracco - actress (The Sopranos)
- Lorraine Davies - country singer
- Lorraine Hansberry - American playwright (1930-1965)
- Lorraine Kelly - Scottish TV journalist
- Lorraine Baines McFly - Marty McFly's mother in the Back to the Future trilogy
- Lorraine Segato - Canadian pop singer-songwriter
- Lorraine is a musical trio from Bergen, Norway, named after Lorraine Baines McFly
- Sweet Lorraine (1940), is a song recorded by Nat King Cole.
Variations include:
- Lori
- Lorri
- Lorrie
"Laura", "Laurène" and "Lareine" (French, la reine or Queen) have distinct origins unconnected with "Lorraine".
[edit] Other
- Lorraine was the code name used by Amiga Corporation for their home computer project later called the Amiga 1000
- Lorraine (company), an aircraft engine manufacturing company in France
- Lorraine (automobile), cars manufactured by Lorraine-Dietrich between 1920 and 1935.
They have planned to be back in race in 2007. - Lorraine 37L, a military vehicle during WWII
- Lorraine (automobile), cars manufactured by Lorraine-Dietrich between 1920 and 1935.
- 1114 Lorraine, is an asteroid
- Lorraine Swanson is a character played by Mo Collins on the sketch comedy television show MADtv.
[edit] Variations
[edit] Lorain
[edit] Loraine
- Loraine, Illinois
- Loraine, North Dakota
- Loraine, Texas
- Loraine Wyman, American folk musician (1885-1937)
- Loraine Hotel, New condo from 1920's hotel (Madison, Wisconsin)
[edit] Lorrain
- Lorrain language
- Claude Lorrain, (Claude Gelee, ca. 1600 - 1682), a baroque French painter
[edit] Toponymic variations
- Lorraine - French
- Lothringen - German, Finnish
- Lotharingia - Hungarian
- Lotharingen - Dutch
- Lorena - Spanish
- Lorena - Italian
- Lorena - Portuguese
- Лотарингия - Russian
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