October (Roman month) October (Roman month) October (from Latin "octo", "eight") or mensis October was the eighth of ten months on the oldest Roman calendar. It had 31 days. October followed September (from "septem", "seven") and preceded November ("novem", "nine"). After the calendar reform that resulted in a 12-month year, October became the tenth month, but retained its numerical name, as did the other months from September through December. Some of the observances in October marked the close of the season for military campaigning and farming, which commenced in March ("Martius", "Mars' month"). October was under the guardianship "(tutela)" of Mars. The Romans
Name of Poland Polish "Polska" In Latin, which was the principal written language of the Middle Ages, the exonym for Poland became "Polonia". It later became the basis for Poland's name in all Romance languages: Many other languages (e.g. Albanian "Polonia"; Greek Πολωνία, "Polōnía"; Maltese "Polonja") use a variation of the Latin name. Germans, Poland's western neighbors, called it "Polen". Other Germanic languages use related exonyms: Non-Germanic languages which borrowed their word for Poland from Germanic include: The Lendians, a Proto-Polish tribe who lived around the confluence of the rivers Vistula and San (south-eastern Poland), have often misleadingly been associated as the source