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Castelli – Many places after Juan José Castelli; Ciudad Evita (means Evita City) – Eva Perón, First Lady of Argentina; General Pueyrredón – second-level administrative subdivision named after Juan Martín de Pueyrredón; Las Heras – Many places after Juan Gregorio de las Heras; Presidencia de la Plaza – Victorino de la Plaza ...
Coolidge, Arizona – named for 30th President of the United States Calvin Coolidge and the most recent city to be named after a U.S. President; Cooper, Maine – General John Cooper (landowner) [156] Cooper River (South Carolina) – Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury [156] Cooperstown, New York – William Cooper
Pages in category "Lists of places named after people" The following 56 pages are in this category, out of 56 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. *
possibly after Lava: Lechia (historical and/or alternative name of Poland) Lech: Norway: Nór (although other etymologies are generally more widely accepted) Romania: from "Rome" (the modern capital city of Italy) / "Roman", which possibly comes from Romulus: Russia: Rus: Solomon Islands: King Solomon of Israel and Judah: Somalia: Supposedly ...
Places named for people can be found at List of places named after people in the United States. Some places have an indeterminate etymology, where it is known that they are named after a city in a particular country, but there is more than one place with that name and the etymology does not distinguish which one.
"People who were in the right place at the right time and had the authority to name their communities often named them after someone they thought was a good president," he says.
Reno (named after Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the American Civil War. Reno's family name was a modified version of the French surname "Renault") Valmy, named after the place in France of a famous battle during the Revolutionary period.
Native American Place Names in Mississippi. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 978-1-60473-483-6. Bright, William (1998). 1500 California Place Names : Their Origin and Meaning. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 9780520212718. Callary, Edward (2009). Place Names of Illinois. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 9780252033568.