Well attestedNamed from the place
Egerian
noun · first attested 20th century
The Hungarian town famous for a wine called bull's blood also names a slice of geologic time.
A regional stage of the late Oligocene and early Miocene in central Europe, about 25.8 to 20.3 million years ago.
Record
- Relationship
- Named from the place
- Confidence
- Well attestedThe place link is the standard scholarly account.
- Attested
- 20th century
- Part of speech
- noun
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Egerian
Like the Eggenburgian above it, the Egerian belongs to the Paratethys timescale that central European geologists built because their fossil sequences did not match the Mediterranean ones. It is defined on sections near Eger in northern Hungary. The town is better known for withstanding an Ottoman siege in 1552 and for the red wine sold as Egri Bikaver, bull's blood.
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