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If, for whatever reason, a new language becomes spoken in the area, a place name may lose all meaning. At its most severe, the name may be completely replaced. However, often the name may be recycled and altered in some way. Typically, this will be in one of the above ways; as the meaning of place-name is forgotten, it becomes changed to a name ...
Honeymoon Island State Park is a Florida State Park located on Honeymoon Island, a barrier island across St. Joseph Sound from Dunedin, Palm Harbor, Ozona, and Crystal Beach. The park is 385 acres (1.6 km 2 ) in land area with 2,400 acres (10 km 2 ) submerged and 4 miles (6 km) of beach .
Double placenames prominently feature the placenames of two or more constituents in double-barrelled form rather than invent a new name. This is often out of consideration for local sensitivities, since the smaller entity may resent its takeover, and may demand its symbolic perpetuation within an amalgamated name so as to propagate the impression of a merger between equals.
DAVIE was originally called Zona, but was renamed for Developer R.P. Davie, who owned a lot of land along the south fork of the New River. The name change was front-page news in The Fort ...
This is a list of place names in the United States that either are Dutch, were translated from Dutch, or were heavily inspired by a Dutch name or term. Many originate from the Dutch colony of New Netherland .
Dodecanese Islands, Aegean Sea (Twelve Islands Islands – Greek; properly called the Dodecanese) Island of Danna *, Scotland ("Danna" means "Dane's island") Faroe Islands , sometimes Faeroe Islands (Sheep Islands Islands – Faroese -oe means 'islands' ( Faroese : oyar , Danish : øerne ); the first part of the name ( Før- , Fær- or Fär ...
Over the next 20 years, several towns would be broken off from this town, often called the "Mother of Towns". Rensselaerville in 1790 would be the first town separated, [3] Coeymans would separate in 1791, [4] while Colonie would be incorporated as a municipality but would stay within Watervliet. [5] Bethlehem would be created in 1793 from ...
New York – formerly New Amsterdam (see History of New York City) Nizhniy Novgorod was Gorkiy during the Soviet Union from 1932 to 1990. North Little Rock, Arkansas – formerly Argenta until 1917; Novohrad-Volynskyi known to 1796 as Zwiahel, or Zvyahel. Nuuk renamed from Godthåb in 1979, following the introduction of the Home Rule.