Negroponte
Negroponte, a name of the city of Chalkis and the island of Euboea of which it is the capital. The word is from the Greek phrase στὸν Εὔριπον 'to Evripon', rebracketed as στὸ Νεὔριπον 'to Nevripon', then interpreted as Negroponte 'black bridge' in Italian by folk etymology, the ponte 'bridge' being interpreted as the bridge of Chalcis.[1] All of the senses below go back to this meaning, and not to an Italian original 'black bridge'.
Places
- Chalkis, capital of Euboea, named Negroponte from a corruption of its medieval Greek name Egripos
- Euboea, a Greek island of which Chalkis is the capital
- Lordship of Negroponte, crusader state established on the island after the Fourth Crusade
Persons
- Fra Antonio da Negroponte, Italian painter of the early-Renaissance period
- Diana Villiers Negroponte (born 1947), American trade
- John Negroponte (born 1939), diplomat and Deputy Secretary of State; first US Director of National Intelligence
- Nicholas Negroponte (born 1943), architect and founder of the MIT Media Lab
Notes
- ↑ Edward Gibbon, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, J.B. Bury, ed., Methuen, 1898 p. 6:390, footnote 69
See also
- Black Bridge (disambiguation)
- Ponte (disambiguation)
- White Bridge (disambiguation)
- Whitebridge (disambiguation)
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