Lorraine

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Contents 1 Variations 1.1 Lorain 1.2 Loraine 1.3 Lorrain 2 See also

Lorraine may refer to:

toponymy

• Lorraine (region), one of the 26 régions of France
• Lotharingia or Lorraine, a short-lived kingdom in western Europe
  • Lower Lorraine
  • Upper Lorraine (Duchy of Lorraine), an independent duchy from around 910 to its partition in 959 (which became modern Lorraine (province))

• Lorraine, Kansas, U.S.
• Lorraine, New York, U.S.
• Lorraine, Ontario, Canada
• Lorraine, Quebec, Canada
• Lorraine, Devon, UK

given name

• Lorraine (given name)

brands and products

• Lorraine Motel, site of the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination
• Lorraine (band), a musical trio from Bergen, Norway
• Lorraine (company), an aircraft engine manufacturing company in France
  • Lorraine (automobile), cars manufactured by Lorraine-Dietrich between 1920 and 1935
  • Lorraine 37L, a military vehicle during World War II
• French battleship Lorraine, of World War II
• Lorraine project code name used by Jay Miner to become the basis of Amiga computers
• 1114 Lorraine, an asteroid

[edit] Variations

[edit] Lorain

• Lorain, Ohio
• Lorain County, Ohio
• Lorain, Wisconsin
• Lorain, Pennsylvania

[edit] Loraine

• Loraine, Illinois
• Loraine, North Dakota
• Loraine, Texas
• Loraine Wyman, American folk musician (1885-1937)
• Loraine Hotel, New condo from 1920's hotel (Madison, Wisconsin)

[edit] Lorrain

• Lorrain language
• Claude Lorrain, (Claude Gelee, ca. 1600 - 1682), a baroque French painter

[edit] See also

• "Sweet Lorraine" (1928 Burwell, Parish song)