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minus-squarevalar@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up21·4 months agoIt was Europeans who named those places.
minus-squaredrcobaltjedi@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·4 months agoYeah, people from that city or place moved there and named their new home after their old home. There’s a very Dutch area of Michigan with many immigrants from the Netherlands still there. Want to know a couple town names? Holland and Zeeland.
It was Europeans who named those places.
Yeah, people from that city or place moved there and named their new home after their old home. There’s a very Dutch area of Michigan with many immigrants from the Netherlands still there. Want to know a couple town names? Holland and Zeeland.