Editing Galway (section)

==Name==
The city's name comes from the Irish name ''Gaillimh'', which formed the western boundary of the earliest settlement, ''Dún Gaillimhe'' "Fort Gaillimh".<ref name=Quinn>David B. Quinn [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2947273 "Columbus and the North: England, Iceland, and Ireland"], ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', Third Series, Vol 49, No. 2 (April 1992), pp. 278–97</ref> (Mythical and alternative derivations of the name are given in [[History of Galway]]).<!-- Note to editors: before you add your favourite derivation, please check the History of Galway article first. --> Historically, the name was [[Anglicisation|anglicised]] as ''Galliv'' or ''Gallive'',<ref>Kavanagh, Mary. ''Galway-Gaillimh: a bibliography of the city and county''. Galway County Council, 2000.</ref> closer to the Irish pronunciation. The city's name in [[Latin]] is ''Galvia''. Residents of the city are referred to as Galwegians.

The city also bears the nickname "City of the Tribes" ({{langx|ga|Cathair na dTreabh}}) because of the fourteen merchant families called the "[[tribes of Galway]]"<ref name="fn_1">They were the merchant families of Athy, Blake, Bodkin, Browne, Darcy, Deane, Font, Ffrench, Joyce, Kirwin, Lynch, [[Martyn (surname)|Martyn]], Morris, and Skerrett.</ref> who led the city in its [[Normans in Ireland|Hiberno-Norman period]].