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  2. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    Montcalm County (named for Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, French military commander in the French and Indian War). [166] Montmorency County (named for the Montmorency family, a noble family influential in the administration of New France) Napoleon (for Napoleon Bonaparte) [166] Orleans (named for the French city) [166] Ozark (from aux arcs, "at the ...

  3. List of city name changes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States

  4. List of renamed places in the United States - Wikipedia

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    These are the list of renamed places in the United States--- various political and physical entities in the U.S. that have had their names changed, though not by merger, split, or any other process which was not one-to-one. It also generally does not include differences due to a change in status, for example, a "River Bluff Recreation Area ...

  5. List of politically motivated renamings - Wikipedia

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    The German Spitz was renamed the American Eskimo Dog. In 1918, the town of Germania, Iowa, was renamed Lakota, Iowa. In 1918, the town of New Berlin, Ohio, was renamed North Canton, Ohio. [17] Sauerkraut was marketed in the US as "liberty cabbage." Salisbury steak was used as an alternative name for hamburgers.

  6. Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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    Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany, was founded as Stalinstadt after World War II to settle displaced people from the former eastern German territories, and was renamed during the De-Stalinization period in the Soviet Union. Faisalabad was known as Lyallpur (until the 1970s) in Pakistan. Flores, Guatemala. Formerly known as Santa María de los Remedios ...

  7. List of U.S. Army installations named for Confederate soldiers

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    In February 2025, the base was again renamed to Fort Bragg, this time for World War II paratrooper Roland L. Bragg. [16] Fort Gordon (1917), near Augusta, Georgia, named for Confederate General John Brown Gordon, was redesignated Fort Eisenhower on 27 October 2023 in honor of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the ninth renaming. [17] [18]

  8. List of forts in the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of historical forts in the United States. World War II military reservations containing 8-inch and larger gun batteries are also included. World War II military reservations containing 8-inch and larger gun batteries are also included.

  9. List of World War II prisoner-of-war camps in the United ...

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    Italian prisoners of war working on the Arizona Canal (December 1943) In the United States at the end of World War II, there were prisoner-of-war camps, including 175 Branch Camps serving 511 Area Camps containing over 425,000 prisoners of war (mostly German). The camps were located all over the US, but were mostly in the South, due to the higher expense of heating the barracks in colder areas ...