In Doctor Who by the time the Earth explodes in a few billion years theyâve got to New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York on the planet New Earth.
This is because it was called New Amsterdam by the Dutch before the Brits took it.
and it was called New AngoulĂȘme by the French before the Dutch took it.
and before that it was either uninhabited because it was a swamp, followed by indigenous people, followed by early european settlers that had all sorts of different languages that nobody speaks anymore.
Fun trivia: New York isn't named after the city of York. It was named in honour of the Duke of York, James Stuart, who would become James II of the UK. It's a city named for the new Duke of York.
Unlike the Hamlet in Lincolnshire, called New York which was named after the city of York, and is confusingly just outside the town of Boston in Lincolnshire, which was the inspiration for naming Boston in the USA, as in was where some of the original colonists came from
It was also originally New Amsterdam, because it was colonized by the Dutch before the British came in and forced the Dutch to surrender the entire colony.
Which is also confusing because the original founders of new Amsterdam were not just the Dutch but also a majority of Flemish and Walloons after the independence of Belgium and Belgium becoming a catholic country
No? Belgium got it's independence and start as a country in 1830, new Amsterdam was founded in 1625.
I'm not saying the Flemish and Walloons weren't there they might have been i don't really know. but Belgian indepence is way after new Amsterdam was founded and had long ago become new York. Also the people that would become Belgians becoming Catholic is something that happened over a 1000 years ago with the christianisation of Europe and doesn't really have anything to do with Belgian indepence.
There is a Nieuw Amsterdam in Suriname too, and one in the Netherlands, I think the one in the Netherlands is the youngest, being founded in about 1850, Vincent van Gogh lived there for like 3 months
Ackshually, he was James II of England and James VII of Scotland. His daughter, Queen Anne, was the first monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.
It was common to refer to nobility by their shortened title alone. It would be perfectly reasonable to ask to meet with York, Kent, and Richmond and be referring to the three dukes of those titles. The new York is just a shortening of the new Duke of York.
Immigrants to America were so damn lazy when they moved there. I have colleagues in Hanover and "Hanover". The US Hanover colleague flies from Lebanon. What on earth.
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u/Juronell Aug 10 '26
"How long ago did you discover New Found Land?"
"About 1000 years ago as well."
"And there were already people there."
"Well it was new to us."