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Nov 10, 2022 · It’s true. Minneapolis is the combination of words from two different languages. Minnehaha – A Sioux word which translates to waterfall. polis – A Greek word which translates to city. Today, we’re taking a dive into the crazy history of our city’s name. When did Minneapolis get its name?
On a deeper level, Yireh Shalem has an alternate meaning: "Complete awe." You see, on a soul level, Jerusalem is not just a patch of hilly earth or a dot on a map. It is that special place within each and every one of us where we are one with G‑d and deeply in tune with His presence. Yireh Shalem (or Jerusalem) therefore means "complete awe ...
The name of Toronto has a history distinct from that of the city itself. Originally, the term " Tkaronto " referred to a channel of water between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching on maps as early as 1675 [1] but in time the name passed southward, and was eventually applied to a new fort at the mouth of the Humber River. Fort Toronto was the first European settlement in the area, and lent its ...
- How Manhattan Got Its Name
- How The Bronx Got Its Name
- How NYC Grew from Manhattan to 5 Boroughs
- How Brooklyn Got Its Name
- How Queens Got Its Name
- How Staten Island Got Its Name
For more than two centuries, New York City consisted only of Manhattan Island. The word “Manhattan” comes from a dialect of the Lenape Native Americans, and can be translated as “a thicket where wood can be found to make bows.” The bow and arrow were a chief means of hunting. The name was first recorded in writing as Manna-hata in the logbook of an...
The Bronx, by most accounts, takes its name from Swedish settler Jonas Bronck, the first European to live in its territory, establishing a settlement in what is now Mott Haven in 1639. Bronck leased land from the Dutch West India Company and purchased more from the local Native Americans. He eventually acquired more than 500 acres, and the Bronx Ri...
New York City began adding to its territory in 1874. Prior to that year, all of what is now the Bronx had been part of Westchester County, while maintaining identity as a borough. In 1874, all of the Bronx west of the Bronx River was annexed by Manhattan, or New York County, and Manhattan’s east-west numbered street system was extended into the bor...
Kings County — established in 1683 when the reigning King Charles II was on the British throne — is today coterminous with Brooklyn, which was named by 1663 for the Dutch city of Breukelen, which is derived from “marshy.” The county consisted of six towns, including the original village of Brooklyn along the East River, which had gained in populati...
Queens County is unique in that it is the only New York state county to lose territory upon joining greater New York City. Like Kings County, it was established in 1683, and is thought to be named for Queen Catherine of Braganza, a Portugal native who was married to King Charles II. No documentation, though, has been found to connect her as “the qu...
Staten Island wasn’t officially known by that name until 1975; before that, it was the Borough of Richmond. Richmond County has kept its original name. The island itself was named in the 1600s for the Dutch parliament, known as the Staten-Generaal, and was “Staaten Eylandt” to the Dutch. In 1683, after the island landed in British hands, the county...
During the Iron Age, the city was known as Rabat Aman and served as the capital of the Ammonite Kingdom. In the 3rd century BC, Ptolemy II Philadelphus, Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt, rebuilt the city and renamed it "Philadelphia", making it a regional center of Hellenistic culture.
Feb 17, 2016 · The city of Boston in Lincolnshire, England was named after Saint Botolph, who is said to have founded the city, according to the book The History and Antiquities of Boston: “The original name of Boston is supposed to be derived from an old British saint, of the name Botolph, who lived along the middle of the seventh century of the Christian ...
May 5, 2020 · According to some medieval chronicles, the name came from the brother of Attila, King of the Huns, and Buda was a popular person’s name in use at the time. Other sources refer to Slavic and Celtic origins and something related to water, so Buda came from the word voda (‘water’). Photo: Csudai Sándor - We Love Budapest.
