Massilia Sector/meta

From Traveller Wiki - Science-Fiction Adventure in the Far future

One interesting tidbit about this sector is that while Digest Group Publications spells it "Massilia", Game Designers' Workshop seems to prefer the spelling "Massila". Mark Seemann (via the TML) wrote the following:

Massilia is the Latin word for the French city of Marseilles. It makes good sense that Solomani conquerers would name a sector after a Terran city, and the name would then have stuck. I don't think Massila means anything, and having heard about DGP's Gary Thomas' fondness for ancient Terran languages, this explanation makes the most sense to me.