Do you know more about the Origins of the ‘New Cities’ names like New York, New Brunswick, New Orleans and etc?

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1. Well New York was originally new Amsterdam but then the English got control of it. Named it after the duke of York. Brunswick I’m not sure. New Orleans obviously just after Orleans France

2. More about them compared to what?

3. Why would we know more about Orleans than New Orleans? Obviously the answer for nearly all of these is the “New”.

4. People from York moved here and named their new town New York. I imagine it’s roughly the same for every other city with a similar naming scheme.

5. New Brunswick isn’t in America and it isn’t a city.

6. In general I know more about American cities than non-American ones

7. They were all named by the European lords and nobility that were gifted the areas by their monarchs. What more is there to know really other than the history of their namesake from which there share literally nothing in common with?

8. I know there is an island Jersey.

   And there’s a bunch of yachts (or yacht companies) based there.

9. Do you know about major cities in your own country more than small cities in other countries is basically this question

10. New York: York, England

    New Orleans: Orleans, France

    New Brunswick: According to Canada.ca, it was named after King George III, who happened to be the Duke of Brunswick

11. New Brunswick is in Canada.

    I’ve been to old York. It’s a pretty Medieval town. Fun fact: When I did Duolingo Latin, it translated “New York” as Novum Eboracum, because apparently Eboracum was the Latin name of York.

    I’m aware of the existence of Orleans, France. I don’t think I’ve been there.

12. I go to New Hampshire a lot. I know a fair amount about it. Not really familiar with Hampshire.

    Also we have a Brunswick nearby. It didn’t even bother with the New. Same with Boston, Bath, Portsmouth, Dover, Rochester, Berwick, Sanford, Worcester, Gloucester, and basically half of New England.

13. New Brunswick is where Rutgers is y’all. It’s also a province in Canada.

14. Why are you asking us about a Canadian city?

15. I think it’s just that the original colony was made up of people from Brunswick and I’m not sure if there’s an Orleans but if there’s a New Orleans I can assume.

    New York was taken from the Dutch and renamed after some politics happened.

16. We didn’t want to use “new” in front of those city names, but the cities in Europe refused to add “Old” in front of their city names. It was an impasse that almost led to war. Finally Europe agreed to let us put military bases everywhere and buy Big Macs from us in exchange for us putting “New” in front of the names.

17. Generally, no. I know of where the names come from, but I’ve never been to places like York or Orleans.

18. Michigan used to be called “New France”.

19. Duke of York, Brunswick, Orleans (but French), etc.

20. Well, there was a city in Europe and some of those people went to a different continent and they thought that it would be cool to name their new city after their old city.

21. York, Brunswick, Egypt, Orleans, Mexico, etc already existed