Names of cities/towns

dan sh

Is it just a coincidence or is there any reason behind USA and UK having places with same names? For instance: Halifax - UK, USA, Canada Newark - USA, UK There may be more that I am unaware of.

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Ravi Sant

same goes with Southampton & Birmingham

Andy_L_J

There are literally thousands of same named places.

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dan sh

Yes, but isn't it surprising that places miles apart have same names. I don't know if any of the Indian city shares name with any other one outside Indian sub-continent.

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Dalek Dave

Not a co-incidence at all. Britain owned America, and named a lot of new towns and cities after the British ones. Even some state names are British. Georgia after King George, Virginia after Elizabeth the First, the Carolinas after King Charles etc.

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Dalek Dave

The Taj Mahal is named after a Restaurant in Birmingham.

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dan sh

You forgot the joke icon. Still, have a five. :-D

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Ravi Sant

The one near Holiday Inn Hotel, in City Centre, Birmingham. I have been there and food is not appreciating compared to other restaurants in city centre like Shimla Pinks and Jimmy Spice :) And i dont think so! :laugh:

dan sh

Yes I thought of the same. Many places were renamed during British rule in India as well which I think has something to with difficult pronunciation for people in West. Was there British empire in Canada as well? And what is so special about Halifax that there are three of them at least on the planet?

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Jorgen Andersson

A not so qualified guess. The founding people of the towns in US or Canada came from the named towns in UK. A curiosity, there is a place in Minnesota with the name Sweden.

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Henry Minute

One you forgot York - UK, New York - USA. As is the case with many of these, not restricted to UK placenames, people emigrating from Europe founded new towns and villages and named them after the place they originated from.

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dan sh

East Ham and Southall are the places to eat if you are looking for some real Indian food.

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Dalek Dave

d@nish wrote:

Was there British empire in Canada as well?

Er...Yes. The Queen is also Queen of Canada, she is the funny looking woman on the front of a Canadian Dollar. The French had it for a while, then General Wolfe[^] took it for the British.

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dan sh

Dalek Dave wrote:

she is the funny looking woman on the front of a Canadian Dollar.

Are you sure[^]?

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Dalek Dave

Interesting point to made here. Originally New York was a Dutch Colony called New Amsterdam, with part of the city called Harlem, after Haarlem in The Netherlands. The Dutch called the English Colonists 'John Cheeses', which in Dutch is Jan Kees. So the term Yankees actually means "The British", odd innit?

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Henry Minute

d@nish wrote:

East Ham and Southall are the places to eat if you are looking for some real Indian food.

You are quite right, and I should know. I used to manage the McDonald's in East Ham. :laugh:

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realJSOP

Considering many of the initial settlers on this continent were from Europe, no, it's not coincidental at all.

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Dalek Dave

Yes I am sure, that is the BACK of a C$5 note!

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Electron Shepherd

Henry Minute wrote:

York

Which is based on the Viking name, Yorvik...

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Gizz

I understand Manhattan was originally colonised by the Dutch, and so it was called New Amsterdam. The capital of New Netherlands. Later it was taken over by the Brits in 1674 and changed its name to New York.