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Map showing the source languages/language families of state names. The fifty U.S. states, the District of Columbia, the five inhabited U.S. territories, and the U.S. Minor Outlying Islands have taken their names from a wide variety of languages. The names of 24 states derive from indigenous languages of the Americas and one from Hawaiian.
Mexico, Missouri (Named after Mexico) Miramar, Florida (named after a town in Granma Province, Cuba, it means "sea view" or "sea-sight". There is a village called Miramar in Valencia, Spain, where could lie the origins of all the cities in America with that name, as there are registries of the town before the year 1527.) Modesto, California ...
Bird's eye view of the city of Mexico, Audrian Co., Missouri 1869. Mexico is located in the central region of Missouri known as "Little Dixie," so named because of the settlement of the region by whites from border south states, intent on reproducing the ways and means of the Deep South.
This is a list of Missouri places named after non-US places.In the case of this list, place means any named location that's smaller than a county or equivalent: cities, towns, villages, hamlets, neighborhoods, municipalities, boroughs, townships, civil parishes, localities, Census Designated Places, and some districts.
The location of the State of Missouri in the United States of America An enlargeable map of the State of Missouri An enlargeable map of the 114 counties and 1 independent city of the State of Missouri. Indigenous peoples. Mississippian culture; French colony of Louisiane, 1699–1764 Treaty of Fontainebleau of 1762
Margarita is a feminine given name in Latin and Eastern European languages. In Latin it came from the Greek word margaritari (μαργαριτάρι), meaning pearl, which was borrowed from the Persians. [ 1 ] (
Missouri Historical Review (1956) 50#3 pp 235–47. Gitlin, Jay. The bourgeois frontier: French towns, French traders, and American expansion (Yale University Press, 2009) Houck, Louis. History of Missouri, Vol. 1.: From the Earliest Explorations and Settlements until the Admission of the State into the Union (3 vol 1908) online v 1; online v2;
Marguerite is a French female given name, from which the English name Margaret is derived. Marguerite derives via Latin and Greek μαργαρίτης (margarítēs), meaning "pearl". [1] It is also a French name for the ox-eye daisy flower. [2] Those with the name include: