The Europeans that went to America were the ones doing that though
Yeah they were still Europeans when they named them. This should be the Obama award meme
They were. The American identity came later. Until the war of independence, settlers identified with the European countries of their heritage
...still do
It's weird. Someone once told me her husband was German after I mentioned I lived there for a while. So I asked where they're from, maybe I knew. "From Mississippi..."
A lot of the time they didn't even bother appending "New." We have way too many Berlins, Manchesters, Lebanons, etc.
Our native-inspired place names are the superior place names, anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_place_names_of_Native_American_origin_in_the_United_States
Meanwhile, the Americans that didn't even put "new" in front of the city name and just called it Paris, Texas or some shit.
That's a completely original name! Do you think Texans know anything about France?
I can visit almost every continent without even leaving my state!
Greetings from Naples Florida
There are 15 cities in the world named Paris.
14 of them are in America.
So it is to avoid confusion when they write "PARIS, FRANCE" in films when they show the Eiffel tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Notre-Dame and the Louvre in establishing shots. Good to know 👍
I mean, it's a bunch of immigrants naming things after their home. Or it's a bunch colonists claiming things... For their home.
I think there is above 50 cities named "Villeneuve" in France (literraly meaning "New City)
Or Villefranche which means it was exempted from taxes.
Or how there are so many "St Something" that they had to add "de somewhere" to disambiguate lmao.
I've lived in 3 different places all named St Etienne.
And then there's the Amish, who gave their towns names like Intercourse and Bird in Hand.
That's a pub name in the UK.
Bird In Hand, that is. Intercourse is what happens in the pub toilets.
People have always had a lack of creativity.
When the Greeks were settling around the Mediterranean they founded many 'New Cities', (Neapolis). One remained a 'new city' for long enough for the name to evolve to Naples.
The Phoenicians did the same, in their language 'New City' was Qart Hadasht, we now call it Carthage. One of the Carthages in what is now Spain was conquered by Rome and to differentiate it from the Capital of the Carthaginians they called it Carthago Nova, essentially New New City.
New new city - final - fixed - rev 3 - last.xlsx
Laughs in Newcastle, Newmarket, Newport, Newbury, Newton and Newspaper
Uhhh, buddy? Most of those were Europeans born in "city name" who moved and founded "new city name" because they were born in "city name." This is a you thing.
Even old New York used to be New Amsterdam...
Why they changed it?
I can't say, people just liked it better that way.
It's weird they went with new instead of better. Maybe they weren't very optimistic.
My favorite is East Palestine, Ohio, named for being east of Palestine, Ohio. It is very far west of Palestine.
But obviously pronounced wrong.
New Prague, MN, for example (/nu pɹeɪg/)
Tbf a lot of the ‘new[city]’ was given their names by the British empire expanding their land. Just look at Australian state names.. The Americans doing this in more recent times are simply following suit.
*Europeans naming cities in America
Europeans named the towns. People From Europe.
texas didnt even bother adding the "new"
Also Canada did this a bunch too
No New Shitterton, though. :(
Come to NY.. we have Florida, and Poland within 50 miles of each other.
No one even mentioned Georgia, the country that constantly gets advertising targeted for Georgia, the state.
After they were actually American, they resorted to "What it was called by the people who lived here first, but pronounced wrong"
Poland, Indiana Poland, Maine Poland, Chautauqua County, New York Poland, Herkimer County, New York Poland, Ohio Poland Township, Mahoning County, Ohio Poland, Wisconsin
Essentially America came to be because they were looking to form a New Europe...so it tracks.
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