Lorraine

Lorraine can refer to:

the independent Duchy of Lorraine
and later French province of Lorraine: see Lorraine (province).
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: see Lorraine (région).

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 and Upper Lorraine (the latter of which became modern Lorraine).

Contents

1 Other Usage
2 Variations

2.1 Lorain
2.2 Loraine
2.3 Lorrain
2.4

Other Usage

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
Lorraine was the code name used by Amiga Corporation for their home computer project later called the Amiga
Lorraine (company), an aircraft engine manufacturing company in France

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
Sweet Lorraine (1940), is a song recorded by Nat King Cole.
Lorraine are a musical trio from Bergen, Norway, named after Lorraine Baines McFly

Variations include:

Lori
Lorri
Lorrie

"Laura" and "Lareine" (French, la reine or Queen) have distinct origins unconnected with "Lorraine".

Variations

Lorain

Loraine

Lorrain

Lorrain language
Claude Lorrain, (Claude Gelee, ca. 1600 - 1682), a baroque French painter

Lothringen - German, Finnish
Lorena - Spanish
Lorena (Francia) - Italian
Lotharingia - Hungarian
Lotharingen - Dutch
Lorena (França) - Portuguese
Лотарингия - Russian

This is a [disambiguationdisambiguation] page: a list of articles associated with the same title. If an referred you to this page, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article.

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.