US-amerikanische Städte nach europäischen Hauptstädten benannt
Von vladgrinch
US-amerikanische Städte nach europäischen Hauptstädten benannt
Von vladgrinch
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Athens, Georgia, for example, was founded in the early 1800s and named after the cradle of classical learning. Others, like Berlin, New Hampshire, were nods to the ancestry of the communities that built them. Some names were chosen to inspire ambition, others simply because they sounded worldly.
Today, “Berlin” and “London” top the list with sixteen towns each, followed by “Athens” and “Paris.” The map is a quiet reflection of how the people who shaped America also carried Europe in their memories.
NM has a Madrid
The disrespect to [San Marino](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino,_California)
Vienna, New York is missing.
Nebraska had a Berlin but the town’s name was changed in 1918 during WWI.
Dunedin is the Gaelic name for Edinburgh
I bet you’ll have a few of those kicking about the US
Seems to be a pretty 1:1 reflection of where NW Europeans settled at the height of Manifest Destiny
I had some friends in college (in the early to mid-1990s) who lived near East Berlin, PA. I asked them if there were still wall remnants around. 😉
I just wanna know who was around Shreveport and thought “yeah, this’ll do for Athens”
OMG i’m an american and always tought that those european cities are named after US cities
Missing quite a few obviously, but I always love how NH has both Londonderry and Derry (right next door to each other)
Some of these have pretty different pronunciations to what it’s supposed to be. For example, Illinois’s Athens is pronounced with a hard A like Ae thens. Presumably they were more familiar with some of these places through books than personal experience.
Didnt realize there were so many “Athens” in the US
So many Lisbons, had no clue.
I briefly lived in West Stockholm New York. There are about 30 buildings there. It’s very beautiful but so poor and rundown. I never imagined I would see it on a map on Reddit. There is also a town just called Stockholm right next to West Stockholm, well as a Potsdam, Canton, Madrid, and Bombay all near by.
Question – given the unification of Italy and Germany in the late 1800s are there other places named after, what were at the time, capital cities?
I guess you’re only doing current capitals. Because St Petersburg was the capital of Russia until 1918. And the US has a couple St Petersburg’s which were named after the Russia capital. Also Italy was only United under a Rome capital in 1871. Many cities are named after the capital of the previously independent kingdoms… Florence, Milan, Naples, etc. Same with Germany.
This is just european capitals. There’s a lot more places named after foreign cities.
There is no East Berlin anywhere in New England
Shout out Germany: they may not have wound up with any colonies of their own and any legacy in the new world compared to Britain, Spain, France, Portugal, Holland, etc but at least their many emigrants who left their country, named a good amount of cities after their former Prussian capital ❤️
There is also a Roma, Texas, by the Rio Grande, although it’s not clear if it was named after Rome.
I Feel Bergen is Missing in Wisconsin and North Bergen New Jersey Both named after Bergen Norway
Wow, didn’t know there were so many! Cool map!
Paris, NY is missing.