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Why is New Jeresy named New Jersey?
New Jersey is named for the isle of Jersey in the British Channel. http://wiki.answers.com/Why_is_it_new_jersey_not_old_jersey#ixzz1MLCyNnF7
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Why is new jersey named new jersey?
New Jersey is named after Jersey as New England was named for England.Jersey is one of the Channel Islands between England and France The land for the colony was a gift to the Carteret family from...
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What was new-zealand originally named?
Abel Tasman called New Zealand "Staten Landt" but it was later found that New Zealand was not part of State Landt so the name Nova Zeelandia, or Nieuw Zeeland became attributed to the country. The...
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Why was it named New Zealand?
Abel Tasman had been the first European to sight New Zealand in 1642 but had named it Staten Land thinking it was part of the bottom of South America. An unknown Dutch cartographer sometime between...
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What is New Brunswick named after?
We get the name New Brunswick from Braunschweig, a German city. Brunswick is an English and French mix of this word, symbolizing our status as the only bilingual province.