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16 lut 2014 · Today we take for granted our New England state names. Around 400 years ago, however, colonists, would-be colonists, kings and queens scratched their heads trying to figure out what to call these lands they intended to settle.
List of state and territory name etymologies of the United States. 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.
1 sie 2023 · Why are there four states whose names begin New? And why are there two different spellings of Hawaii? In this article, we will answer all of these questions and more as we cover how all 50 states got their names.
29 paź 2024 · New England, region, northeastern United States, including the states of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region was named by Captain John Smith, who explored its shores in 1614 for some London merchants.
Origin of New Hampshire’s state name is from the English county of Hampshire. Captain John Mason, an English landowner and colonist, obtained a land grant in the New World in the early 17th century and named the territory “New Hampshire” in honor of his homeland, Hampshire, England.
New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick to the northeast and Quebec to the north.
The New-England Primer, the principal textbook for millions of colonists and early Americans. First compiled and published about 1688 by Benjamin Harris, a British journalist who emigrated to Boston, the primer remained in use for more than 150 years.
