Orange (colour) in Portuguese, and "orange" in English. The House of Orange-Nassau was one of the most influential royal houses in Europe in the 16th and 17th centuries. It originated in 1163 the tiny Principality of Orange, a feudal state of north of Avignon in southern France. The Principality of Orange took its name not from the fruit, but from a Roman-Celtic settlement on the site which was founded in 36 or 35 BC and was named Arausio, after a Celtic water god; however, the name may have been slightly altered, and the town associated with the colour, because it was on
History of the Irish in Baltimore in Baltimore city, 6% of the population. In September 2014, immigrants from Ireland were the sixty-sixth largest foreign-born population in Baltimore. Baltimore became a leading destination for Irish immigrants to the United States during the mid-1800s, with around 70,000 Irish people settling in the city during the 1850s and 1860s. History of the Irish in Baltimore The history of the Irish in Baltimore dates back to the early and mid-19th century. The city's Irish-American community is centered in the neighborhoods of Hampden, Canton, Highlandtown, Fell's Point and Locust Point. In 1920, 10,240 foreign-born White people in Baltimore spoke an English