Lorraine

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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 prototype used to model the Amiga 1000 called Lorraine.

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 Toponymic variations

[edit] 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
• 1114 Lorraine, is an asteroid

Variations include:

• Lori
• Lorri
• Lorrie

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

[edit] Variations

[edit] Lorain

• Lorain, Ohio
• Lorain County, Ohio
• Lorain, Wisconsin
• Lorain, Pennsylvania

[edit] Loraine

• Loraine, Illinois
• Loraine, North Dakota
• Loraine, Texas
• Loraine Wyman, American folk musician (1885-1937)
• Loraine Hotel, New condo from 1920's hotel (Madison, Wisconsin)

[edit] Lorrain

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

[edit] Toponymic variations

• Lorraine - French
• Lothringen - German, Finnish
• Lotharingia - Hungarian
• Lotharingen - Dutch
• Lorena - Spanish
• Lorena - Italian
• Lorena - Portuguese
• Лотарингия - Russian