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The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
Location map of French America. French America ( French : Amérique française ), sometimes called Franco-America , in contrast to Anglo-America , is the French-speaking community of people and their diaspora , notably those tracing back origins to New France , the early French colonization of the Americas .
The Franco-American flag Francophone flags of North America The Franco-American flag is an ethnic flag adopted at a Franco-American conference at Saint Anselm College in Manchester, New Hampshire in May 1983 to represent their New England community.
The cities with the largest French American populations are in Maine. However, in northern Maine, they are of Acadian ancestry, and in southern Maine and northern New Hampshire , of Canadian ancestry.
Small-town life looms large in American pop culture, and the United States boasts tens of thousands of towns and cities with fewer than 50,000 people. Here are some of the best ones to visit if ...
Franklin, Tennessee, a town just south of Nashville, claims the title of "America's favorite Main Street." After all, you don't really get to know a town until you've strolled down Main Street ...
The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.
Equinoctial France was the contemporary name given to the colonization efforts of France in the 17th century in South America, around the line of Equator, before "tropical" had fully gained its modern meaning: Equinoctial means in Latin "of equal nights", i.e., on the Equator, where the duration of days and nights is nearly the same year round.