• diverging@lemmy.ml
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    8 months ago

    People have always had a lack of creativity.

    When the Greeks were settling around the Mediterranean they founded many ‘New Cities’, (Neapolis). One remained a ‘new city’ for long enough for the name to evolve to Naples.

    The Phoenicians did the same, in their language ‘New City’ was Qart Hadasht, we now call it Carthage. One of the Carthages in what is now Spain was conquered by Rome and to differentiate it from the Capital of the Carthaginians they called it Carthago Nova, essentially New New City.

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      8 months ago

      Yeah, in my country Germany there are loads of places called New-(City|Village|Mill|Castle) all over the place, too.

  • Pickle_Jr@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    Meanwhile, the Americans that didn’t even put “new” in front of the city name and just called it Paris, Texas or some shit.