Many people know that Amerika was named after Amerigo Vespucci. It turns out tha Amerigo is the Medieval Italian name for Emmerich, a rather uninspiring German city close to the Dutch border.

  • psud@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not named after the city, it’s named after the guy who was named after the obscure city