New Amsterdam, current New York
There are many old and many new ones around the world. But what are your origins? Some examples help explain.
From New York to New Delhi, from Linda-to-old to Andorra-a-Velha, many are the old lands without new and the new without old. But what joke is this?
Everything has a context, and in the case of New Zealand the story is not very linear. But in many cases it has everything to do with colonialism. And the Dutch were experts.
It was therefore common for Western countries to colonize a place and attribute it the “new” name, followed by the name of a city of the colonizers’ home country. An example? New York, which has already been called “New Amsterdam”.
From Nova Amsterdam to New York: the city that was never old
The most urban city in the United States has actually been a simple Dutch Commercial Port. When the Netherlands decided to set a point of trade across the Atlantic in 1625, to the good colonizing way, They called him “New Amsterdam”as I had already done with other American cities like Harlem (which was called “Nova Harlem”). Thus explains the Britannica.
Only several years later, in 1664, The English arrived in the new Amsterdam. It was then that King Charles II, after being victorious in the fight against the Dutch, granted the territory to his brother, who was called James Stuart…. Duke of York.
Now, according to O, this duke followed the colonial customs of the time and applied a new name to the city that never sleeps. New York has already been a new Amsterdam, but Old never has been, Nor will it be.
Zealand 1, Zealand 2 and Zealand 3
The History of the Zealanda also has a Dutch finger. The country of Oceania was discovered in 1642 by navigator Abel Janszoon Tasman, and the cartographers decided to call him Zealand (Zeland)-the The same name as the Hurly Province, in the south of the country.
This was a kind of Zealand 2, far from Tasman’s homeland. In fact, Zealand and New Zealand are about 17,700 km (the maximum distance to which two points on the globe can be about 20,000) – are in Two completely opposite poles on the planet.
After a century New Zealand, New Zealand in Dutch, the Netherlands let this territory pass into the hands of the British, who decided to angelicize the name, recalls: James Cook called him New Zealand “For us, New Zealand, or as the Māori people prefer to call themselves, Aotearoa.”
Andorra: neither old nor new
On the opposite side of the coin, we have the example of Andorra-a-Velha, the capital of Andorra, the state located between Spain and France.
In fact, this name is easy to explain – and We went to say it badly this time. It is the fault of the Spanish language, which translates “Andorra La Vella” to “Andorra La Vieja”. In fact, this translation is wrong, and in Latin “Vella” means “Vila.”
Etymologically, the name of this city, whose origins date back to the beginning of the ninth century, means “In Vil-La D’Andorra“, Explains the. Therefore, we should say, translating correctly,“ The Village of Andorra ”instead of“ Andorra the Old ”. Neither old nor new, is one of the oldest in Europe, but its original name makes no reference to its age.
CAROLINA BASTOS PEREIRA, ZAP //
