To Darkdude,
not sure about all the 'funny' names you mentioned there. Apolyton seems to be a reference to the strategy games fansite. But 'The Mumbles' is certainly a real place. It is a village on the edge of Swansea in South Wales (I live in this area, and from the beach near my house can look across the bay to Mumbles and it's lighthouse.) This was discussed in another thread about strange city names in the Civ 3 forums. If I remember correctly, although The Mumbles is in Wales I believe it has always been part of the English civilization rather than the Celts. The reason for this is that Mumbles is on the edge of the Gower, a rather attractive land in South Wales (the first protected environment in the UK) which has historically been captured and colonized by first the Romans, and later the English.