Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Don't neglect the Punic Wars, Clarice

Perthus comes from the Latin pertusus, itself past participle of the verb pertundere (“to pierce, to hole”)3. It is a classic term to name a narrow passage, a pass. The Col du Perthus is therefore a pleonastic toponym, the name of Perthus appropriate to the village

 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Col_du_Perthus

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