London

==Toponymy==
{{main|Etymology of London}}
''London'' is an ancient name, attested in the first century AD, usually in the [[Latinisation of names|Latinised]] form {{lang|la|[[Londinium]]}}.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Mills |first=Anthony David |title=A Dictionary of London Place Names |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2001 |isbn=9780192801067 |pages=139|oclc=45406491}}</ref> Modern scientific analyses of the name must account for the origins of the different forms found in early sources: [[Latin]] (usually {{lang|la|Londinium}}), [[Old English]] (usually {{lang|ang|Lunden}}), and [[Welsh language|Welsh]] (usually {{lang|cy|Llundein}}), with reference to the known developments over time of sounds in those different languages. It is agreed that the name came into these languages from [[Common Brittonic|Common Brythonic]]; recent work tends to reconstruct the lost Celtic form of the name as {{lang|cel-x-proto|*Londonjon}} or something similar. This was adapted into Latin as {{lang|la|Londinium}} and borrowed into Old English.<ref name="auto">{{Cite journal |last1=Bynon |first1=Theodora |year=2016 |title=London's Name |journal= Transactions of the Philological Society |volume=114 |issue=3 |pages=281–97 |doi=10.1111/1467-968X.12064}}</ref>

Until 1889, the name "London" applied officially only to the [[City of London]], but since then it has also referred to the [[County of London]] and to [[Greater London]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Mills |first=David |title=A Dictionary of London Place Names |publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] |year=2001 |isbn=9780192801067 |pages=140 |oclc=45406491}}</ref>