Baile Átha Cliath

American

[blah-klee-uh] / blɑˈkli ə /

noun

Gaelic name of Dublin.

Baile Átha Cliath British

/ blɑːˈklɪə /

noun

the Irish Gaelic name for Dublin

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It is Baile Atha Cliath Dubhlinne, and means the town of the ford of hurdles of black pool.

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He knows that the French province surrounded by the rivers Seine, Marne, Oise and Beuvronne is the Île-de-France; that Baile Átha Cliath means Dublin in Irish; that the capital of Mali is Bamako; and that the Bunker Hill Monument and Lexington Green can be found in Massachusetts.

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