US towns named after foreign cities
brink
Moscow, ID
Naples, FL
Venice, CA
Rome, GA
Florence, CO
Mecca, CA
Edinburgh, IN
Ayr, NE
Lisbon, MD
St Petersburg, FL
Berlin, NJ
Frankfort, IL
Hamburg, IA
Athens, GA
Madrid, IA
Amsterdam, NY
York, PA
others? And why do states like Iowa and Nebraska seem determined to corner
the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
brink
anon
Memphis, TN
Paris, TN
SP Cook
brink wrote:
> Athens, GA
>>
> others? And why do states like Iowa and Nebraska seem determined to corner
> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
>
Cambridge is pretty frequent.
Athens, GA (Univesity of Georgia)
Athens, OH (Ohio University)
Athens, WV (Concord College)
Oxford, MS (Univesity of Mississippi)
Cambridge, MA (Harvard State and MIT)
BTW, in the historical illiteracy department, the old Athens, WV HS was
the Athens Trojans.
SP Cook
SteveWilliamsDTM
Here are a few more for you...
Cairo, GA (pronounced KAY-row)
Cairo, IL
Sparta, GA
Bethlehem, GA
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James Robinson
> And why do states like Iowa and Nebraska seem determined to
> corner the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
Many cities are named after foreign ones. There are so many in New York,
as an example, that you would probably list 1/2 the cities in the state.
As a start, here are some of the more obvious ones:
Albany
Rochester
Syracuse
Utica
Rome
Dunkirk
Massena
Amsterdam
Berlin
Hampton
Southampton
Selkirk
Hempstead
Babylon
Brooklyn
Huntington
Troy
Scarborough
Westchester
Waverly
Nassau
Cadiz
Cairo
Bangor
Chris Wilson
> Rochester
> Syracuse
> Utica
> Rome
> Dunkirk
> Massena
> Amsterdam
> Berlin
> Hampton
> Southampton
> Selkirk
> Hempstead
> Babylon
> Brooklyn
> Huntington
> Troy
> Scarborough
> Westchester
> Waverly
> Nassau
> Cadiz
> Cairo
> Bangor
You forgot Ithaca, unless that was mentioned before...
The only one I can think of at hand is Madrid, MS.
H.B. Elkins
>others? And why do states like Iowa and Nebraska seem determined to corner
>the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
Kentucky is full of them -- London, Paris, Athens, Versailles, Rome, and I'm
sure I could go on and on.
Same for West Virginia - Athens, Vienna, etc.
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There are oodles of them here in Wisconsin. They were likely named that by
immigrants wanting a touchstone of the 'old' country. They include:
Berlin
Brussels
Verona
Barneveld
Athens
Sussex
Cambridge (hometown of Matt Kenseth)
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the Berlin Speedway), but dropped that one in a frenzy of wartime
fervor. Picking up another German, but presumably less offensive, name
in the process.
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Bogata (for Bogota but misspelled after it's founding, and locally
pronounced 'Buh-GO-tuh')
Odessa
Potosi (for San Luis Potosí in Mexico, which itself comes from the
Potosí area in Bolivia)
Others, like-named, but origin unknown or not directly attributable to
foreign cities:
Athens
Carthage
Florence
London
Memphis
Moscow
Naples
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highest prevalance of European place names. In the case of the Plains,
the names were often used to attract people from elsewhere to move
there, with the idea that one day, Paris, Kansas, and Paris, France,
would be indistinguishable. (I suppose Paris, Kansas, has a Wal Mart,
where Paris, France, does not.)
Almost every town, county, and city in the Northeast is named after a
foreign town or city, or county.
Massachusetts, for example:
Counties
Suffolk
Norfolk
Essex
Middlesex
Worcester
Plymouth
Hampshire
Hampden
Berkshire
Barnstable
Bristol
Basically, all except Dukes, Nantucket, and Franklin
Towns
Abington
Acton
Amesbury
Andover
Ashland
Attleborough
Auburn
Avon
Ayer
Barnstable
Bedford
Bellingham
Berlin
Beverly
Billerica
Blandford
Bolton
Boston
Bourne
Boxborough
Boxford
Braintree
Brewster
Bridgewater
Burlington
Cambridge
Carlisle
Charlton
Chatham
Chelmford
Chelsea
Chesire
Chester
Chesterfield
Dartmouth
Dedham
Dover
Dunstable
Duxbury
Eastham
Easthampton
Easton
Essex
Falmouth
Foxborough
Framingham
Gloucester
Grafton
Granby
Great Barrington
Halifax
Hardwick
Harwich
Haverhill
Hingham
Hull
Ipswich
Kingston
Lancaster
Leicester
Leominster
Lincoln
Lynn
Lynnfield
Malden
Manchester
Marion
Marlborough
Maynard
Medfield
Medford
Medway
Melrose
Mendon
Milford
Needham
Newbury
Newton
Norfolk
Northampton
Oxford
Pelham
Plymouth
Raynham
Reading
Rehoboth
Richmond
Rochester
Salisbury
Sheffield
Sherborn
Shrewsbury
Somerset
Southampton
Sterling
Stockbridge
Stow
Sturbridge
Sudbury
Swansea
Taunton
Uxbridge
Waltham
Wareham
Warwick
Westminster
Weston
Weymouth
Winchester
Woburn
Worcester
Yarmouth
Pete from Boston
Most likely because either 1) Europeans settled there directly, or 2)
people from the East, whose towns were largely settled by people who
moved from Europe directly, relocated there, bringing names from home
with them.
The so-called "Classical Revival" of the early 19th Century likely gave
rise to a large number of towns being called Athens, Sparta, Troy, etc.
SteveWilliamsDTM
Brunswick, GA, is English for Braunsweig, the German hometown of
Britain's King George II (Georgia's namesake).
Steve Williams, KC4AZO :)
Atlanta, GA
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Here's a few more:
Rio
Namur
Lublin
Palmyra
Hebron
Steuben
Stockholm
Uppsala MN
Montevideo MN
New Prague, MN
Padua, MN
Oslo, MN
New Berne, MN
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> Montevideo MN
Good one! I remember seeing signs for that growing up in Minnetonka. If I
remember correctly, there were mileage signs for it out west on Highway 7.
I thought it sounded so strange as I took the "video" portion literally.
Do they pronounce it the Spanish way (MON-tay-vee-DAY-oh) or the, um,
Minnesotaized way (MON-tuh-VID-ee-oh)?
My guess would be the latter. ;-) It's the way I always pronounced it in
my head when I saw the signs as a kid.
brink
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We have one here named Blockbustervideo.
Timothy J. Lee
New York
New Orleans
New Madrid
New Rome
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> How about places with "New" prepended? E.g.
>
> New York
> New Orleans
> New Madrid
> New Rome
Indeed, since in many cases they were specifically named for the "old"
ones, particularly New York (for the Duke of York).
New Orleans as well.
Stephen Dailey
Aberdeen
Bingen
Colchester
Kent (well, OK, actually a county)
Manchester
Medina
Newcastle
Odessa
Toledo
Vancouver doesn't really count as it predates Vancouver, BC by about 30
years.
===
Steve
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> others?
Genoa CO
Pat O'Connell
Peru PEEROO (named for the country), Versailles, Bedford, North
Manchester, Frankfort, Hanover (both Anglicized) maybe Vincennes.
New Mexico:
Madrid, Carlsbad, Cuba (named for the country of course)
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"brink" <br...@invalid.invalid> wrote:
Probably because they pick European cities you've heard of. In the
Northeast, many towns are named after settler's homes across the ocean,
which could be any old small hamlet.
Otherwise: Copenhagen, Lisbon, Madrid, Cairo, Paris, Rome, Athens,
Syracuse, Rotterdam, Berlin are all places in NY.
Nathan Perry
James Robinson <was...@212.com> wrote:
> Many cities are named after foreign ones. There are so many in New York,
> as an example, that you would probably list 1/2 the cities in the state.
> As a start, here are some of the more obvious ones:
>
> Albany
> Rochester
Neither of these are named for cities. Rochester is named for Nathaniel
Rochester, and Albany is named for the same English guy that New York is
named for.
> Brooklyn
Brooklyn is modified Dutch for "broken land".
> Nassau
Nassau is named for a person, or more generally a house of nobility.
James Robinson
> In article <Xns97F7605EF7F...@216.196.97.142>,
> James Robinson <was...@212.com> wrote:
>
>> Many cities are named after foreign ones. There are so many in New
>> York, as an example, that you would probably list 1/2 the cities in
>> the state. As a start, here are some of the more obvious ones:
>>
>> Albany
>> Rochester
>
> Neither of these are named for cities. Rochester is named for
> Nathaniel Rochester, and Albany is named for the same English guy that
> New York is named for.
Yes, the Duke of Albany. However, he got that name from the ancient name
for Scotland, so I included it as a name copied from a place in the old
country.
I'll grant you the origin of Rochester. There is a Rochester in York,
England, and a number of US Rochesters are named after it. I just
guessed the same would hold for the one in New York.
>> Brooklyn
>
> Brooklyn is modified Dutch for "broken land".
According to www.brooklyn.com, "Brooklyn is the anglicized form of
"Breuckelen", and is most probably named after the municipality of
Breukelen, in Utrecht province, in the Netherlands."
>> Nassau
>
> Nassau is named for a person, or more generally a house of nobility.
As with Albany, the house of nobility was named for a German state.
Ozark Trail
>> Paris, TX
>> Moscow, ID
>> Naples, FL
>> Venice, CA
>> Rome, GA
>> Florence, CO
>> Mecca, CA
>> Edinburgh, IN
>> Ayr, NE
>> Lisbon, MD
>> St Petersburg, FL
>> Berlin, NJ
>> Frankfort, IL
>> Hamburg, IA
>> Athens, GA
>> Madrid, IA
>> Amsterdam, NY
>> York, PA
Cairo, IL
Athens, TX
Michael G. Koerner
I also just remembered:
Kiel, WI
Dorchester, WI
Banjomax
> I don't think Kansas or Nebraska is the place where there is the
> highest prevalance of European place names. In the case of the Plains,
> the names were often used to attract people from elsewhere to move
> there, with the idea that one day, Paris, Kansas, and Paris, France,
> would be indistinguishable. (I suppose Paris, Kansas, has a Wal Mart,
> where Paris, France, does not.)
>
> Almost every town, county, and city in the Northeast is named after a
> foreign town or city, or county.
>
I'd say close to half of the place names in Vermont have their origins
in place names on the other side of the Atlantic (Athens, Montpelier,
Westminster, etc.), though many are named for early settlers
(Chittenden, Bennington, Brattleboro, etc.). In looking into this, I
discovered that the naming of Jamaica VT has no relation to the island
of the same name, but is derived from a native (Natick) word for beaver.
Peru VT was named for the South American country, however. Peru was
originally named Bromley, which residents in the early 1800s associated
with a poverty stricken place. Peru was chosen as the new name as it
was associated with wealth at the time.
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> Nathan Perry <npe...@rochester.rr.com> wrote:
>>In article <Xns97F7605EF7F...@216.196.97.142>,
>> James Robinson <was...@212.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Many cities are named after foreign ones. There are so many in New
>>>York, as an example, that you would probably list 1/2 the cities in
>>>the state. As a start, here are some of the more obvious ones:
>>>
>>>Albany
>>>Rochester
>>
>>Neither of these are named for cities. Rochester is named for
>>Nathaniel Rochester, and Albany is named for the same English guy that
>>New York is named for.
>
> England, and a number of US Rochesters are named after it. I just
> guessed the same would hold for the one in New York.
The town of Rochester in England that I visited in 2003 is in Kent, a
short commuter-train ride from London. I wonder if Colonel Rochester may
have had ancestors or relatives from there; a number of surnames are
derived from place names and vice versa.
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are letters while north/south are numbered/ O St. divides north and
south. The local joke is to call it "zero Street".
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> O Street is the main street in Lincoln,Nebraska. East- west streets
> are letters while north/south are numbered/ O St. divides north and
> south. The local joke is to call it "zero Street".
What foreign city is named "Zero?"
George Grapman
major streets.
Steve
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New York?
Newark?
Dublin (either OH or TX)
Toledo (OH)
etc.
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> In article <15c49b58-b80a-48c1...@googlegroups.com>,
> <nil...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>Golconda , Nevada is based on a town name from India.
>
> New York?
>
> Newark?
>
> Dublin (either OH or TX)
>
> Toledo (OH)
>
> etc.
Kenny McCormack
Venice, CA
Naples, FL
Rome, GA
Athens, GA
Troy, MI
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>
> Troy, MI
>
Troy MI was named after Troy NY.
richard
Troy, England?
richard
> On Sat, 13 Jun 2015 21:34:21 -0400, richard <nor...@example.com>
> wrote:
>
>>yeah like there only a few hundred in every state.
>
>
> Go.
Without a doubt.
Ok smartboy know it all, what was "Cincinnati" named for?
Is there only one Cincinnati in the USA?
Larry Sheldon
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Nope. Named for "The Society of the Cincinnati" according to
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati
And that leads to Cincinnatus--and ancient Roman (I should have known
that) not a Greek.
John David Galt
> Ok smartboy know it all, what was "Cincinnati" named for?
> Is there only one Cincinnati in the USA?
by General George Washington.
The order is named for Cincinnatus, a wealthy farmer during Rome's Early
Republic period, who got drafted and rose to be a successful general.
When the war was over, his men tried to get him to run for office. But
Cincinnatus said, "I fought for the glory of Rome, not my own," and went
back to his farm and stayed there.
Washington revered him and tried to do the same thing (giving a moving
farewell speech to Congress after the peace treaty was signed in 1783,
in which he resigned his commission and left public life, he hoped forever).
richard
George Washington was the first elected presiding officer.
Cincinnatus, was a Roman senator who took control of the Roman arny for a
mere 15 days to battle a war.
Then politely resigned and went back to his farm.
John Levine
We have lots of them here in New York, from native American words:
Canandaigua
Oneida
Irondequoit
Oswego
Owego
Otego
Oneonta
Schenectady
Seneca Falls
Skaneateles
We also have plenty of places named after people, like Binghamton and
Watkins Glen, and named after random other stuff like Buffalo.
T.J. Higgins
>>It would be more interesting to come up with ones not of European origin.
>
>Watkins Glen, and named after random other stuff like Buffalo.
Cartersville, etc. ad nauseum.
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>On 6/14/2015 12:17, richard wrote:
>> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 04:41:17 -0700 (PDT), Gary V wrote:
>>
>>> On Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 10:42:08 PM UTC-4, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Troy, MI
>>>>
>>> Troy MI was named after Troy NY.
>>
>> And what do you suppose Troy NY was named for?
>> Troy, England?
>>
>
>I's have guessed Turkey.
Do the residents of any of these towns call themselves Trojans?
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>In article <cu5t0u...@mid.individual.net>,
>Larry Sheldon <lfsh...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>On 6/14/2015 12:17, richard wrote:
>>> On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 04:41:17 -0700 (PDT), Gary V wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Saturday, June 13, 2015 at 10:42:08 PM UTC-4, Kenny McCormack wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Troy, MI
>>>>>
>>>> Troy MI was named after Troy NY.
>>>
>>> And what do you suppose Troy NY was named for?
>>> Troy, England?
>>>
>>
>>I's have guessed Turkey.
>
>I wonder...
>
>Do the residents of any of these towns call themselves Trojans?
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Michael Angelo Ravera
> Paris, TX
> Moscow, ID
> Naples, FL
> Venice, CA
> Rome, GA
> Florence, CO
> Mecca, CA
> Edinburgh, IN
> Ayr, NE
> Lisbon, MD
> St Petersburg, FL
> Berlin, NJ
> Frankfort, IL
> Hamburg, IA
> Athens, GA
> Madrid, IA
> Amsterdam, NY
> York, PA
>
> others? And why do states like Iowa and Nebraska seem determined to corner
> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
>
> brink
Almost *EVERY* decent sized city in the costal California from the Marin headlands down to San Ysidro that was founded under Spanish or Mexican rule shares a name with a city in Europe, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central or South America, or Texas (that was a separate country at the time of the naming). Whether the California city was named after the other or named independently isn't always clear.
San Jose, Costa Rica, Baja Califronia
San Juan (Bautista), Puerto Rico
San Luis (Obispo), Mexico
Santa Cruz, Canary Islands
Monter[r]ey, Mexico
San Martin, Caribbean
... and that is just large and large.
... in addition, there are Bagdad, Mecca, and Medina in the California desert.
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>> ...
Gee, if you'd only waited a few more months to reply, you could have
broken the decade mark.
Arif Khokar
years, if not over a decade old? Do they not pay attention to the date
of the post they're replying to?
Why not just start a new thread instead?
John David Galt
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Versaillles, KY
Frankfort, KY (Frankfurt)
Paris, KY
And that's just off the top of my head.
On Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 3:31:00 AM UTC-4, brink wrote:
John Levine
>Baghdad, KY
>Versaillles, KY
>Frankfort, KY (Frankfurt)
>Paris, KY
>
>And that's just off the top of my head.
H.B. Elkins
low spot in the Kentucky River where it could be crossed (forded).
In article <68a4ace0-2082-4a76...@googlegroups.com>,
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New Lebanon, IL
Palestine, IL
Cairo, IL
Larry Sheldon
> Wrong about Frankfort. It was originally named Frank's Ford, because there was a
> low spot in the Kentucky River where it could be crossed (forded).
>
> In article <68a4ace0-2082-4a76...@googlegroups.com>,
> brian...@gmail.com says...
>>
>> Baghdad, KY
>> Versaillles, KY
>> Frankfort, KY (Frankfurt)
>> Paris, KY
>>
>> And that's just off the top of my head.
>>
>>
>> On Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 3:31:00 AM UTC-4, brink wrote:
>>> Paris, TX
.
.
>>>
>>> others? And why do states like Iowa and Nebraska seem determined to corner
>>> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
from somewhere else that tended to name the new settlements after the
places they had escaped-from.
Others used the names the preceding occupants had used.
In these and other cases the oral names got butchered by illiterates,
particularly illiterate map-makers, and bureaucrats.
Near here is a town spelled "Norfolk" but pronounced "North Fork"
because that is the settlers used in spite of the government surveyors
who had a better idea.
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> Paris, TX
> Moscow, ID
> Naples, FL
> Venice, CA
> Rome, GA
> Florence, CO
> Mecca, CA
> Edinburgh, IN
> Ayr, NE
> Lisbon, MD
> St Petersburg, FL
> Berlin, NJ
> Frankfort, IL
> Hamburg, IA
> Athens, GA
> Madrid, IA
> Amsterdam, NY
>
> others? And why do states like Iowa and Nebraska seem determined to corner
> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
>
Lebanon, OR
Athens, OH
John Levine
It's nice to know that someone's finally following up on this vital
topic after only 11 years.
>> others? And why do states like Iowa and Nebraska seem determined to corner
>> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
it a while ago.
>> Paris, TX
>> Moscow, ID
>> Naples, FL
>> Venice, CA
>> Rome, GA
>> Florence, CO
>> Mecca, CA
>> Edinburgh, IN
>> Ayr, NE
>> Lisbon, MD
>> St Petersburg, FL
>> Berlin, NJ
>> Frankfort, IL
>> Hamburg, IA
>> Athens, GA
>> Madrid, IA
>> Amsterdam, NY
>> York, PA
>>
>>
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Edinburgh, KS
Philadelphia, PA
Alexandria, LA
Oh, does New York City count? (York, England)
Kenny McCormack
Of these 3, the one that jumps out is, of course, Philadelphia.
It never occurred to me that that might be a foreign city name.
Googling led me to: https://www.behindthename.com/name/philadelphia
which says:
From the name of a city in Asia Minor mentioned in Revelation in the New
Testament.
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> Moscow, ID
> Naples, FL
> Venice, CA
> Rome, GA
> Florence, CO
> Mecca, CA
> Edinburgh, IN
> Ayr, NE
> Lisbon, MD
> St Petersburg, FL
> Berlin, NJ
> Frankfort, IL
> Hamburg, IA
> Athens, GA
> Madrid, IA
> Amsterdam, NY
> York, PA
>
> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
>
Dublin, PA
Aleppo, PA
rdc
Manchester, Winchester, Hampstead, St. James, Midlothian, Frederick,
Glen Burnie, Lothian, Waldorf, Scotland, St. Marys City.
Delaware: Glasgow, Nassau, Lincoln, Dover, Smyrna, Bombay Hook, Newark.
New Jersey: Avalon, Salem, Gloucester, Camden, Evesham, Hanover,
Manchester, Windsor, Brunswick, Holland, Bethlehem, Alexandria,
Lebanon, Chester, Bedminster, Newark, Jersey City, Orange, Dover,
Frelinghuysen, Sparta, Hamburg, Sussex.
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> brink wrote:
> > Athens, GA
> > others? And why do states like Iowa and Nebraska seem determined to corner
> > the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
> >
> Cambridge is pretty frequent.
>
> Athens, GA (Univesity of Georgia)
> Athens, OH (Ohio University)
> Athens, WV (Concord College)
> Oxford, MS (Univesity of Mississippi)
> Cambridge, MA (Harvard State and MIT)
>
>
> BTW, in the historical illiteracy department, the old Athens, WV HS was
> the Athens Trojans.
>
> SP Cook
and don't forget athens, tx
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Hanover, NH
John Levine
<yuliya...@hanovernorwichschools.org> wrote:
>Berlin, VT
>Hanover, NH
Wow, it's the 11 year old thread that keeps on giving.
Helpful tip: Norwich VT is named after Norwich in East Anglia, the
home of Colman's mustard.
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Poland, Ohio
London, Ohio
Ontario, Calif
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named after he last independent Christian Greek settlement in western Asia Minor to the Muslim Turks of the Ottoman Sultanate. the city was sieged by a Byzantine (then a vassal of the Ottomans) and Ottoman army for 12 years.
When the Byzantine civil war turned disastrous, the Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos promised the city of Philadelphia to the Turks. However, the residents of Philadelphia were not so keen on this idea and managed to resist the invaders for an impressive 12 years before the city was finally taken by the Turkish forces.
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Also, this is relevant: http://mentalfloss.com/article/50967/20-towns-named-other-towns-pronounced-differently
shlom...@gmail.com
> Paris, TX
> Moscow, ID
> Naples, FL
> Venice, CA
> Rome, GA
> Florence, CO
> Mecca, CA
> Edinburgh, IN
> Ayr, NE
> Lisbon, MD
> St Petersburg, FL
> Berlin, NJ
> Frankfort, IL
> Hamburg, IA
> Athens, GA
> Madrid, IA
> Amsterdam, NY
> York, PA
>
> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
>
Dublin, CA
On Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 12:31:00 AM UTC-7, brink wrote:
> Paris, TX
> Moscow, ID
> Naples, FL
> Venice, CA
> Rome, GA
> Florence, CO
> Mecca, CA
> Edinburgh, IN
> Ayr, NE
> Lisbon, MD
> St Petersburg, FL
> Berlin, NJ
> Frankfort, IL
> Hamburg, IA
> Athens, GA
> Madrid, IA
> Amsterdam, NY
> York, PA
>
> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
>
On Wednesday, July 5, 2006 at 12:31:00 AM UTC-7, brink wrote:
> Paris, TX
> Moscow, ID
> Naples, FL
> Venice, CA
> Rome, GA
> Florence, CO
> Mecca, CA
> Edinburgh, IN
> Ayr, NE
> Lisbon, MD
> St Petersburg, FL
> Berlin, NJ
> Frankfort, IL
> Hamburg, IA
> Athens, GA
> Madrid, IA
> Amsterdam, NY
> York, PA
>
> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
>
John Levine
>> others? And why do states like Iowa and Nebraska seem determined to corner
In article <bfd2e518-f238-4fda...@googlegroups.com>,
<shlom...@gmail.com> wrote:
Wow, it's the thread that Just Won't Die.
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Kenny McCormack
I doubt it. I assume it was named to honor our sweet 16th (and Wikipedia
backs me up on this). In fact, per Wikipedia, it was founded in 1856
(before Lincoln became President) as "Lancaster", but was renamed in 1867.
Anyway, I would argue that just about every US town was named after (as in
"later than") just about every European/Asian city.
But, just out of curiosity, what foreign city did you have in mind?
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>
>Anyway, I would argue that just about every US town was named after (as in
>"later than") just about every European/Asian city.
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John Levine
>Anyway, I would argue that just about every US town was named after (as in
>"later than") just about every European/Asian city.
rather common to name places after a local landmark, e.g., Niagara
Falls, and in parts of the US, with a version of a native name, e.g.,
Oneonta, Owego, Otego, Otsego, Oneida, and Schenectady.
R's,
John
PS: I think this thread has now been going for 12 years.
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> Paris, TX
> Moscow, ID
> Naples, FL
> Venice, CA
> Rome, GA
> Florence, CO
> Mecca, CA
> Edinburgh, IN
> Ayr, NE
> Lisbon, MD
> St Petersburg, FL
> Berlin, NJ
> Frankfort, IL
> Hamburg, IA
> Athens, GA
> Madrid, IA
> Amsterdam, NY
> York, PA
>
> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
>
mikesst...@gmail.com
Belgium, Berlin, Brussels, Cairo, Cuba, Geneva, Glasgow, Havana, Lebanon, Lisbon, Liverpool, Macedonia, Marseilles, Milan, Palestine, Panama, Paris, Peru, Rome, Venice, Versailles, Vienna and Warsaw.
John Levine
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shad...@gmail.com
Hadn't seen these yet,
Glasgow, Montana
Sydney, Montana
nokial...@interia.pl
> Paris, TX
> Moscow, ID
> Naples, FL
> Venice, CA
> Rome, GA
> Florence, CO
> Mecca, CA
> Edinburgh, IN
> Ayr, NE
> Lisbon, MD
> St Petersburg, FL
> Berlin, NJ
> Frankfort, IL
> Hamburg, IA
> Athens, GA
> Madrid, IA
> Amsterdam, NY
> York, PA
omsid...@gmail.com
John Levine
In article <f2ba012e-3f07-4960...@googlegroups.com>,
<omsid...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Dublin, CA
rvl...@att.net
> Moscow, ID
> Naples, FL
> Venice, CA
> Rome, GA
> Florence, CO
> Mecca, CA
> Edinburgh, IN
> Ayr, NE
> Lisbon, MD
> St Petersburg, FL
> Berlin, NJ
> Frankfort, IL
> Hamburg, IA
> Athens, GA
> Madrid, IA
> Amsterdam, NY
> York, PA
>
> the market on naming towns after European cities? ;-)
>
> brink
John Levine
FWIW I live between Ithaca, Waterloo, and Geneva NY, and not too far
from Syracuse, Utica, Rome, Palmyra, Lisle, and Liverpool.
If anyone actually cares, there's lists in Wikipedia.
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