Editing Barcelona (section)

== Names ==
The name ''Barcelona'' comes from the ancient Iberian ''Baŕkeno'', attested in an ancient coin inscription found on the right side of the coin in [[Iberian scripts|Iberian script]] as [[File:Barkeno.png|34px|Barkeno in Levantine Iberian script]],<ref>''Emerita: Revista de Lingüística y Filología clasica'' 11 (1943), p. 468.</ref> in [[Ancient Greek]] sources as {{lang|grc|Βαρκινών}}, ''Barkinṓn'';<ref>[[Ptolemy]], ii. 6. §&nbsp;8</ref><ref name="Schütte1917">{{cite book |author=Schütte, Gudmund |title=Ptolemy's Maps of Northern Europe: A Reconstruction of the Prototypes |url=https://archive.org/details/ptolemysmapsofno00schrich |year=1917 |publisher=H. Hagerup |page=[https://archive.org/details/ptolemysmapsofno00schrich/page/n66 45] |access-date=6 November 2015}}</ref> and in [[Latin]] as ''Barcino'',<ref>{{cite book |last=Smith |first=Sir William |title=Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography: Abacaenum-Hytanis |url=https://archive.org/details/dictionarygreek16smitgoog |year=1854 |publisher=Little, Brown and Company |location=Boston, Massachusetts |page=378}}</ref> ''Barcilonum''<ref>[[Rufius Festus Avienius]] ''Ora Maritima'' [http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/avienus.ora.html « et Barcilonum amoena sedes ditium. » v514] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130812170724/http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/avienus.ora.html |date=12 August 2013 }}</ref> and ''Barcenona''.<ref name="Parthey1848">{{cite book |author=Parthey, Gustav |title=Itinerarium Antonini Avgvsti et Hierosolymitanvm: ex libris manvscriptis |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s0oMAAAAYAAJ |year=1848 |publisher=F. Nicolai |page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_s0oMAAAAYAAJ/page/n230 188] |access-date=6 November 2015 |author-link=Gustav Parthey}}</ref><ref name="WesselingGrammarian1735">{{cite book |author1=Wesseling, Petrus |author2=Hierocles (The Grammarian) |title=Vetera Romanorum itineraria, /: sive Antonini Augusti Itinerarium |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iIJBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA390 |year=1735 |publisher=apud J. Wetstenium & G. Smith |page=390 |access-date=6 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231210118/https://books.google.com/books?id=iIJBAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA390 |archive-date=31 December 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Cook1910">{{cite book |author=Cook, Joel |title=The Mediterranean and Its Borderlands |url=https://archive.org/details/mediterraneanan01cookgoog |year=1910 |page=[https://archive.org/details/mediterraneanan01cookgoog/page/n412 334] |access-date=6 November 2015}}</ref>

Other sources suggest that the city may have been named after the [[Carthage|Carthaginian]] general [[Hamilcar Barca]], who was supposed to have founded the city in the 3rd century BC,<ref name="britannica.com"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Barcelona |title=Online Etymology Dictionary |publisher=Etymonline.com |access-date=14 June 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140409161819/http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Barcelona |archive-date=9 April 2014}}</ref> but there is no evidence its name in antiquity, ''Barcino'', was connected with the [[Barcid]] family of Hamilcar.<ref name="Corporation1957">{{cite book |author=P.F. Collier & Son Corporation |title=Collier's Encyclopedia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UpQVAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Barcino%22 |year=1957 |publisher=Collier |page=48 |access-date=14 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160514053025/https://books.google.com/books?id=UpQVAQAAMAAJ&q=%22Barcino%22 |archive-date=14 May 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> During [[Middle Ages|the Middle Ages]], the city was variously known as ''Barchinona'', ''Barçalona'', ''Barchelonaa'', and ''Barchenona''.

An abbreviated form sometimes used by locals for the city is ''Barna''. ''Barça'' is only applied to the local football club [[FC Barcelona]], not to the city. Another common abbreviation is 'BCN', which is also the [[IATA airport code]] of the [[Barcelona-El Prat Airport]].

The city is referred to as the ''Ciutat Comtal'' in [[Catalan language|Catalan]] and ''Ciudad Condal'' in Spanish (i.e., "Comital City" or "City of Counts"), owing to its past as the seat of the [[Count of Barcelona]].<ref>[https://www.enciclopedia.cat/EC-GEC-0017957.xml "Ciutat Comtal"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210711124438/https://www.enciclopedia.cat/EC-GEC-0017957.xml |date=11 July 2021 }} entry in ''Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana'', Barcelona, Enciclopedia.cat, {{in lang|ca}}. [Retrieved 14 September 2019].</ref>