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This is a list of US places named after non-US places.In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, census-designated places, and some districts.
A number of places, mostly in the Western Hemisphere, have been named after the Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus, who was the first European to make the New World widely known to Europeans. Countries
Maringouin (Cajun French in origin and means "mosquito") Marion (named after an American soldier of Huguenot ancestry) Maurepas. Meaux (after the town of Meaux) Meraux. Mermentau. Mer Rouge ("red sea") Metairie (from a French word for sharecropping) Michoud New Orleans neighborhood.
Ephesus. Ephesus (Greek: Ἔφεσος Ephesos) was a Greek city on the west coast of Anatolia. Paul of Tarsus lived there for several years, and also wrote an Epistle to the Ephesians. One of the Seven churches of Asia to whom the first part of the Book of Revelation is addressed ( Revelation 2:1–7 ). The author praises the Ephesians for ...
List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Sverdlovsk was the name of Dovzhansk – Yakov Sverdlov. Torez was the name of Chystiakove – Maurice Thorez. Usivka was the name of Oleksandriia – Cossack Usyk. Voroshilovgrad, Voroshylovhrad was the name of Luhansk – Kliment Voroshilov. Yekaterinin Shanets was the name of Pervomaisk – Catherine the Great.
Others carry the prefix "New"; for example, the largest city in the US, New York, was named after York because King Charles II gave the land to his brother, James, the Duke of York (later James II). [1] [2] Some places, such as Hartford, Connecticut, bear an archaic spelling of an English place (in this case Hertford).
This is a partial or incomplete list of places in countries other than Ireland named after places in Ireland. Massive emigration, often called the Irish diaspora, from Ireland in the 19th and 20th centuries resulted in many towns and regions being named or renamed after places in Ireland.