• Taco2112@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    Most of the places east of the Ohio River were named by Europeans, we just took the idea, enhanced it and made it nation wide. Why do we need six towns named Paris? Though, we do have a lot of places named after places in the Middle East/Egypt, there’s about five Cairos and a bunch of Bethlehems

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      22 hours ago

      Yeah ohio has a Medina (meh-die-nuh) and a mecca (idk how you’d pronounce it wrong but by the gods they probably do)

      They also have a Defiance which got a punk band named after it, so that’s a creative name. Must balance out the Circleville, Centerville, Middletown bs