Colophon
38.1156°N 27.1422°E · Q1142488
2 English words in this atlas trace back to Colophon. It sits in Turkey.
Violinists' rosin is named for an Ionian city.
Colophon in Asia Minor was known for its resin. The city also gave English colophon, the note at the end of a book, by a separate route.
The name reaches a mineral through pine resin, and reaches pine resin through an Ionian city.
Colophonite was named from its resemblance in color to colophony, the brittle resin left after turpentine is distilled from pine sap. Colophony in turn comes from Latin colophonia resina, resin of Colophon, an Ionian city near modern Izmir that was known for producing hardened resin. The mineral name belongs to nineteenth century usage and has no standing with the IMA today.