MARCIA´NA SILVA
MARCIA´NA SILVA a mountain forest in the south-west of Germany, probably the whole or a portion of what is now called the
Black Forest (
Amm. Marc. 21.8;
Tab. Peuting.) The origin of the name is not known, Cluver regarding Marciana as a corruption of
schwarz, and others connecting it with
marsh and
march, which is still used in the
Black Forest as a name for a moor.
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