Ely, a cikin Cambridgeshire

**Ely** (/ˈiːli/ i EE-lee) birni ne mai girma da kuma cocin farar hula a cikin gundumar East Cambridge" id="mwMw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Cambridgeshire">Cambridgeshire a Cambridgeshiire, Ingila,   arewa maso gabashin Cambridge,   kudu maso gabashin Peterborough da  km) daga London. A ƙidayar jama'a ta 2021, yankin da aka gina yana da yawan mutane 19,200. Ikklisiya wacce ta hada da ƙauyukan Chettisham, Prickwillow, Sarauniya Adelaide da Stuntney da ƙauyen Mile End suna da yawan mutane 20,574 a cikin 2021.

An gina Ely a kan tsibirin Kimmeridge Clay mai murabba'in kilomita  (60 ) wanda, a ƙafa 85 (26 , shine mafi girman ƙasa a cikin Fens. Saboda wannan yanayin ne Ely ba ta cika da ruwa kamar Fenland da ke kewaye da ita ba, kuma tsibirin ya rabu da babban yankin. Manyan koguna ciki har da Witham, Welland, Nene da Great Ouse suna ciyarwa cikin Fens kuma, har sai an fara zubar da ruwa a karni na sha takwas, sun samar da marshes na ruwa mai laushi da kuma meres wanda aka shimfiɗa peat. Da zarar an zubar da Fens, wannan peat ya haifar da ƙasa mai wadata da mai kyau don noma.

Kogin Great Ouse ya kasance muhimmiyar hanyar sufuri har sai an zubar da Fens kuma Ely ya daina zama tsibiri a karni na sha bakwai. Kogin yanzu sanannen wurin jirgin ruwa ne kuma yana da babban tashar jiragen ruwa. Kodayake yanzu an kewaye shi da ƙasa, har yanzu ana kiran birnin Isle of Ely .

Akwai wurare biyu na sha'awar kimiyya na musamman a cikin birni: tsohon ma'adinin Kimmeridge Clay, da kuma daya daga cikin misalai mafi kyau na United Kingdom na tsakiya da aikin gona.

Tattalin arzikin yankin galibi aikin gona ne. Kafin a zubar da Fens, kamun kifi na eel wani muhimmin aiki ne, wanda daga abin da za a iya samo sunan ƙauyen. Sauran muhimman ayyukan sun haɗa da kiwon daji, cire peat, da girbi na Osisi (willow) da sedge (rush). Birnin ya kasance cibiyar samar da tukwane na gida sama da shekaru 700, gami da tukwane da aka sani da kayan Babila. Hanyar Romawa, Akeman Street, ta ratsa birnin; ƙarshen kudu yana a Ermine Street kusa da Wimpole kuma ƙarshen arewa yana a Brancaster. Ƙananan shaidar kai tsaye na zama na Romawa a Ely ya wanzu, kodayake akwai ƙauyukan Romawa da ke kusa kamar waɗanda ke Little Thetford da Stretham.

## Toponymy
Masana sunaye na wurare suna ɗaukar asali da ma'anar sunan Ely a matsayin wanda ba a san shi ba koyaushe, kuma har yanzu ana jayayya a kansa. Tarihin farko na sunan yana cikin rubutun Latin na Bede 's *Ecclesiastical History of the English People*, inda ya rubuta *Elge* .  Wannan a bayyane yake ba sunan Latin bane, kuma rubuce-rubucen Latin na baya-bayan nan kusan duk sun yi amfani da siffofin ,  , ko  tare da *H-* mara kwayoyin halitta. A cikin tsoffin takardun Turanci, da kuma a cikin *Anglo-Saxon Chronicle*, rubutun yawanci shine  . 

Skeat ya samo sunan Ely daga abin da ya kira "O[tsohon] Northumbrian" , ma'ana "gundumar eels".[ld] Wannan yana amfani da kalmar **ġē*, wanda ba a rubuta shi a ware ba amma wasu suna tunanin yana da alaƙa da kalmar Jamusanci ta zamani *Gau*, ma'ana "gundumar". Ka'idar ita ce sunan ya haɓaka wasali don zama , kuma daga baya aka sake fassara shi don nufin "Eel Island". Wannan shine ainihin bayanin da Reaney ya yarda da shi, Ekwall, Mills da Watts.

Amma akwai matsaloli. Bailey, a cikin tattaunawarsa game da sunayen *ġē*, ya nuna cewa Ely zai zama abin mamaki idan da gaske ya fito daga  "district eel", yana da nisa daga yankunan da misalan sunayen *ġē* suka faru, kuma ƙari ga haka, babu wani kamanceceniya da amfani da sunan kifi a cikin mahaɗan tare da *ġē* . Mafi mahimmanci, rubutun Ingilishi na yau da kullun ya kasance , har ma a cikin yanayin dative da aka yi amfani da shi bayan gabatarwa da yawa, inda  za a yi tsammanin idan ɓangaren na biyu shine *īġ* "tsibiri". Wannan ya saba wa duk sauran sunayen tsibirin da ke kewaye da Ely. 

Matsalar ma ta kasance, kamar yadda masanin tarihi Mac Dowdy ya nuna, kamar yadda kalmar eel (ko makamancin haka) ba ta wanzu a lokacin da aka kafa Ely, [dubious - tattauna] kuma a maimakon haka ana kiransu aguilla ko anguilles har zuwa 1300s. Mac ya ba da shawarar cewa a maimakon haka birnin ya sami sunansa daga kalmar "Elysium", daga baya aka taƙaita zuwa Ely. An yi imanin wannan kamar yadda mai kula da Etheldreda, Ovin, ya bayyana shi a matsayin "wani tsohuwar wuri mai matukar muhimmanci ga ruhaniya ga mutanen yankin, aljanna". Wannan daga baya ya canza yayin da marubucin Wilfrid ya yi amfani da kalmar Latin don Aljanna "Elysium".