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This map shows the entire city of Verduria (in <font color="#FF9400">orange</font>), with its
surroundings. Streets within the city are in white; roads outside it
are in <font color="#560056">purple</font>.
Neighborhood names are in <font color="#A61100">red</font>;
the <font color="#7D5100">brown</font> lines are
the walls of the city. The <font color="#00BCAD">blue-green</font> areas in the delta are wetlands.
<p>The city was founded around 1200 as <b>Arénica</b>; the
name derives from <i>arosd</i>, the Meťaiun word for 'delta'.
The original area of settlement corresponds to today's <i>Mažtan-lagana</i>,
the campus of government palaces in the center of the city.
The fortress of <b>Arcaln</b> was built during the time of
the Caďinorian emperor Ervëa, c. 1620. In Caďinorian
times, settlement extended to the Scafiora, Nezi, and Biško
neighborhoods, as well as along the southern bank of the river.
<p>The city has grown explosively in the last few centuries;
it now has close to 600,000 inhabitants.
It can be seen that the city walls have been rebuilt further out
several times. The innermost existing walls date back to the
<a href="kingdom.htm#Kings">Arcalnei dynasty</a> (3000s); the Žeuro neighborhood was enclosed in
Eleďe times, Istuen and Sarniëma in Abolineron times (3300s).
<p>Times are now safer, and there has been no move to enclose
the newer neighborhoods that have grown up outside the walls. These
areas are the poorest areas of the city, and most of the kingdom's
new factories are found there (except for shipbuilding, of course,
which is concentrated in <b>Istuen</b>). The name of <b>Čümána</b>
neighborhood is that of the old plague hospital, which was once
well outside the city limits, but has been swallowed up by the growth
of the city.
<p><b>Taslelë</b> lies partially up a hill;
the refreshing breezes, magnificient view, and distance from the noise
and smells of the city have long made it a favorite spot for the nobility--
though they are now joined by the new commercial elite. For city
living the rich prefer the <b>Išira</b> quarter.
<p>The meanings of neighborhood and village names may interest some.
<b>Meťaiun</b> is the pre-Caďinorian language spoken in the northern
Plain, ancestral to modern <a href="kebreni.htm">Kebreni</a>.
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<tr><td colspan=2><i><font color="#008000">Arin island</font></i>
<tr><td><b>Arcaln</b> <td>Arin fortress
<tr><td><b>Nezi</b> <td>island
<tr><td><b>Biško</b> <td>unknown; possibly Meťaiun
<tr><td colspan=2><i><font color="#008000">Inside the walls</font></i>
<tr><td><b>Maztan-lagana</b> <td>city plaza
<tr><td><b>Išira</b> <td>a <a href="pagan.htm#gods"
>goddess</a>; wife of Enäron
<tr><td><b>Nočii</b> <td>of the Night
<tr><td><b>Žeuro</b> <td>unknown
<tr><td><b>Istuen</b> <td><i>is letuen</i> outside the walls
<tr><td><b>Ažimba</b> <td>Meťaiun sea goddess (V. <i>Ažirei</i>)
<tr><td><b>Sarniëma</b> <td>eastern park
<tr><td><b>Scafiora</b> <td>docks
<tr><td><b>Petrei</b> <td>after Nëron Petro church
<tr><td colspan=2><i><font color="#008000">Outside the walls</font></i>
<tr><td><b>Erabordë</b> <td>southern shore
<tr><td><b>Čümána</b> <td>the Plague Hospital
<tr><td><b>Trevmesti</b> <td>grassy field
<tr><td><b>Lúdamen</b> <td>olive hill, in Meťaiun
<tr><td><b>Etäš</b> <td>leafy valley, in Meťaiun
<tr><td><b>Caubo</b> <td>bee water, in Meťaiun
<tr><td><b>Nan Istuen</b> <td>north Istuen
<tr><td><b>Taslelë</b> <td>bay view
<tr><td colspan=2><i><font color="#008000">Nearby villages</font></i>
<tr><td><b>Caudan</b> <td>Caubo town
<tr><td><b>Šelirei</b> <td><i>šeli elreë</i> queen's grace
<tr><td><b>Eliata</b> <td>olive grove
<tr><td><b>Pónefar</b> <td>manly lord (a given name)
<tr><td><b>Šustana</b> <td>name of the Fate controlling death
<tr><td><b>Aďmeca</b> <td>god-daughter
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<b><br>Řuk Ranetami</b> is a fortress established on the island of
Ranetami ('frog pond') to help control the river trade.
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<center><i>© 1999 by Mark Rosenfelder</i><br> </center>
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