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A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
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A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
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A state of the United States; probably named for the province in France. Capital: Augusta. Largest city: Portland.
These first English migrants to Jamestown endured terrible disease and arrived during a period of drought and colder-than-normal winters. The migrants to Roanoke on the outer banks of Carolina, where the English had gone in the 1580s, disappeared. And a brief effort to settle the coast of Maine in 1607 and 1608 failed because of an unusually bitter winter.
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A town in New York.
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A town in Outagamie County, Wisconsin; named for the state.
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A river in Maine, United States, flowing 5.5 miles from Pocomoonshine Lake in Princeton into Crawford Lake in Crawford.
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University of Maine.
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The US state is from French Maine, named by its French explorers after the province in France with the same name. From Old French Cemaine, from Latin *Cenomania, from the name of the Gaulish Cenomani tribe of Gallia Celtica. The word was rebracketed as ce (“this”) + Maine, and the ce- was lost by the 12th century.
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A river in Maine-et-Loire department, Pays de la Loire, France, a tributary of the Loire, flowing 12 km through the city of Angers from the confluence of the Mayenne and Sarthe into the Loire.
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From French Maine, from earlier Maienne, from Latin Meduāna, of uncertain origin. Doublet of Mayenne. Unrelated to the French province of the same name.
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A Scottish and English surname from Old French, a variant of Main.
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A village in Marathon County, Wisconsin; named for county sheriff Uriah E. Maine.
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A river in County Kerry, Ireland, flowing 43 km from Tobermaing into the Atlantic at Castlemaine.
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From Irish An Mhaing
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A male given name from Old Irish, of historical usage, notably borne by Irish kings Maine mac Cerbaill and Maine mac Néill.
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From Old Irish Maine.
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Variante de MainAlternative form of Main: A river in County Antrim, Northern Ireland.
Maine · A former province of Pays de la Loire, France. Capital: Le Mans.
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