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Torez was the name of Chystiakove – Maurice Thorez. Usivka was the name of Oleksandriia – Cossack Usyk. Vatutine was the name of Bahacheve – Nikolai Vatutin. Voroshilovgrad, Voroshylovhrad was the name of Luhansk – Kliment Voroshilov. Yekaterinin Shanets was the name of Pervomaisk – Catherine the Great.
Louisa County, Virginia, named for Princess Louise, daughter of George II. Somerset County, Maryland, named for Mary, Lady Somerset, the wife of Sir John Somerset and daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour. Queen Anne's County, Maryland, named for Anne, Queen of Great Britain. Queens County, New York, named for Catherine of ...
Burlington, 5 places in Kansas, Iowa, Michigan, Vermont, and Wisconsin – Burling family (This family owned the land upon which the city in Vermont was built. The other cities derive their name from the Vermont one). [91] [93] [94] Burnet, Texas – Governor David G. Burnet [91] Burnsville, Indiana – Brice Bruns (founder) [91]
The hillside sign is visible in the background in the left corner. Place names considered unusual can include those which are also offensive words, inadvertently humorous (especially if mispronounced) or highly charged words, [2] as well as place names of unorthodox spelling and pronunciation, including especially short or long names.
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.
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.
List of chess openings named after places. List of foods and drinks named after places. List of inventions named after places. List of minor planets named after places. List of places named after places in the United States. List of places named after places in the Philippines. Locations in the United States with an English name.
Saud Bin Muhammad. Seychelles. Jean Moreau de Séchelles. United States of America. Amerigo Vespucci (see Naming of America) Uzbekistan. Öz Beg Khan. Venezuela (The Bolivarian Republic of) Simón Bolívar (for the "Bolivarian Republic" part), the name Venezuela is derived from Venice.