Lorraine - Variations

pop (2000e) 2 417 000; area 23 547 km²/9089 sq mi. Region and former province of NE France, comprising departments of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Meuse, Moselle, and Vosges; bordered by the Plaine de Champagne (W), Vosges (E), Ardennes (N), and Monts Faucilles (S); frequent source of Franco-German conflict; duchy since the 10th-c; part of France, 1766; ceded to Germany as part of Alsace-Lorraine, 1871; returned to France after World War 1; chief towns, Metz, Nancy, Luneville, Epinal; corn, fruit, cheese; iron ore, coal, salt; mineral springs.

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 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). 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".

Variations

Lorain

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

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)

Lorrain

Lorrain language Claude Lorrain, (Claude Gelee, ca.