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To: SpaceBar
What’s now NYC was originaly founded by the Dutch who named it New Amsterdam

Why they changed it I can't say. People just liked it better that way.

18 posted on 03/10/2013 7:01:55 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: dfwgator

I think the reason for the name change was that that whole area (much larger than present-day New York State) was granted to the Duke of York, younger brother of King Charles II (and later king himself as James II). So both the city of New Amsterdam and the colony of New Netherland were renamed New York. I don’t think the residents had any say in the change.


63 posted on 03/10/2013 9:34:49 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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