question: why are some places called "new < another place > " after other places?
comment: Historical context, some examples below.... Basically the name could be in honor of someone or something, or merely derived from specific events in history. & #x200B; & #x200B; Or the place may be named New "Place" due to historical context. Example below for New Orleans: " Founded in 1718 and named for the Duke of Orleans, from the start La Nouvelle-Orléans viewed itself as a city apart from, even superior to, other New World settlements. Proud of its French pedigree even after France cut the ties and sold Louisiana to America, New Orleans maintains a slew of French-influenced cultural and gastronomic traditions." Reference: [ URL_1 ]( URL_1 ) & #x200B; Or you might have something where people from the "other place" wished to make a create another city resemble the "other place," or with similar characteristics. Reference: [ URL_0 ]( URL_0 )
passages: BULLET::::- In geography, places and towns can also be given an eponymous name through a relationship to an important figure. Peloponnesus, for instance, was said to derive its name from the Greek hero Pelops. In historical times, new towns have often been named (and older communities renamed) after their founders, discoverers, or notable individuals. Examples include Vancouver, British Columbia, named for explorer George Vancouver; and Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, originally called Isbister's Settlement but renamed after Queen Victoria's husband and consort in 1866.
   The term "New Jerusalem" occurs twice in the New Testament, in verses and of the Book of Revelation. A large portion of the final two chapters of Revelation deals with John of Patmos' vision of the New Jerusalem. He describes the New Jerusalem as "'the bride, the wife of the Lamb'", where the river of the "Water of Life" flows ().
   At the outbreak of the Civil War, the mine lay undisturbed until sometime in the 1870s when an English mining concern known as New London & States Co., Ltd. purchased the mine property. The English company sent Capt. William Nance to be in charge of the operation. With the gold and other industries going full speed, surely Bilesville needed a richer-sounding name. W. A. Judd from England, now in charge of the mining operations suggested the name be changed to “New London”, hardly anyone objected.
   BULLET::::- Milky Way Galaxy (Milky Way Milky — Greek; for this reason some scientists, such as the late Isaac Asimov, have argued that the Milky Way should be renamed the "Home Galaxy" or some such.)
  
  BULLET::::- Minnehaha Falls, Minnesota (Waterfall Falls – Dakota)
  
  BULLET::::- Mount Midoriyama, the final stage of American Ninja Warrior (Mount Green Mountain - Japanese)
  
  BULLET::::- Nathu La Pass, Sino-Indian border, (Listening Ears Pass Pass- Tibetan)
  
  BULLET::::- Nesoddtangen, a triple tautology, consisting of three parts, "nes", "odd" and "tangen", all being synonyms signifying a small cape or promontory.
   BULLET::::- In 1782 King Yotfa Chulalok of Siam moved the government seat from Thonburi Province to Phra Nakhon Province. In 1972 the Thai government merged Thonburi and Phra Nakhon, forming the new capital, Krungthep Mahanakhon. However, outside of Thailand, the capital retained the old name and is still called Bangkok.
   Section::::Origin of term.:Acceptance.
   These basic elements can also be found in place names in other countries; e.g. Amsterdam ('River Amstel dam'), Liechtenstein ('Light-stone'), Copenhagen ('Merchants' harbour), Paris ('Home of the Parisii'), Shanghai (approximately 'Seaport'), Tashkent ('Stone city'). These elements are also clearly present in the less 'weathered' New World place names - e.g. Fort Knox, Thunder Bay, Little Rock and so on. Carson City, for instance, was named for Kit Carson, and Belo Horizonte means "beautiful view". However, some apparent meanings may be deceptive; New York was not directly named after the English city of York but after the Duke of York, who was the head of the British Navy at the time of the British take-over, and Los Angeles was not named after angels but after the Virgin Mary, or the Queen of the Angels (El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora la Reina de los Angeles).
   Following the release of Peter Jackson's "The Lord of the Rings" films, New Zealand has sometimes been called "Middle-earth" after the fictional setting of the films. Wellington, the centre of the films' production, was sometimes called Middle-earth, and for about a week around the release of the first movie the local newspaper "The Evening Post" renamed itself to "The Middle Earth Post". The town of Matamata, near the location of many of the Hobbiton scenes, unofficially renamed itself "Hobbiton". The flourishing of the film-industry in Wellington has led to the nickname "Wellywood", and a proposal to erect a "Hollywood" style sign near the airport was overturned due to public resistance and possible copyright infringements.
   By the time of the War of the Elves and Sauron in the middle of the Second Age, this 'New Haven' had become very well established, and its name had shifted over the intervening one thousand years to "Lond Daer", the Great Haven. As such, it was one of the two beachheads of the Númenórean forces in Eriador that were used to support the Elves around S.A. 1700.
   The practice of giving certain New Zealand places dual names began in the 1920s, but dual names have become much more common in the 1990s and 2000s, in part due to Treaty of Waitangi settlements. Many places have names with a long heritage in each culture. For instance, one settlement saw Cloudy Bay, given this name by Captain Cook in 1770, renamed Te Koko-o-Kupe / Cloudy Bay, with the Māori name recalling the early explorer Kupe scooping up oysters from the bay.
   BULLET::::- Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, changed from the name "Hot Springs" in 1950 when "Truth or Consequences" host Ralph Edwards announced that he would do the show from the first town that renamed itself after the popular radio program.
  
  BULLET::::- Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, formerly Mauch Chunk and East Mauch Chunk, negotiated a deal with the heirs of athlete Jim Thorpe to become the site of his tomb in a bid to increase tourism.
  
  BULLET::::- Ismay, Montana, unofficially took the name of "Joe, Montana", after the NFL quarterback Joe Montana, as part of a 1993 publicity stunt
   The other story is that Inwood's name was changed when Jonathan Newton Thatcher, of Gerrard, wanted to open a post office in the town. Washington D.C. post authorities told Thatcher that he would have to rename the town of Gerrard, since it would conflict with mail going to Gerrardstown, a town 4 miles west. When Thatcher's cousin from Inwood, California, showed him a letter with his home address on it, he decided to use the name “Inwood” for the town. He wrote to Washington D.C. to get the town's name changed from Gerrard to Inwood and to get a post office established there. Jonathan Thatcher was the first postmaster for the new Inwood, West Virginia.
   Frictions sometimes arise between countries because of toponymy, as illustrated by the Macedonia naming dispute in which Greece has claimed the name "Macedonia", as well as the Persian Gulf naming dispute. Over the years, it has also been noted that a map producer used the name Persian Gulf in a 1977 map of Iran while retaining ""Arabian Gulf"" in another 1977 map focusing on the Arab states of the Persian Gulf, underlying the occasional spilling of place names issues into the economic sphere.
  
  Section::::Noted toponymists.
  
  BULLET::::- Marcel Aurousseau
  
  BULLET::::- Andrew Breeze
  
  BULLET::::- William Bright
  
  BULLET::::- Richard Coates
  
  BULLET::::- Albert Dauzat
   Kenny wrote the song about myth versus fact and explains that the city is overall a great place ("It was a really nice night for a good street fight or a robbery / But I always knew in my home town that would never happen to me"). The line "So Good They Named It Twice" is a play on the fact the name of the city and state are both "New York". 
   BULLET::::- City of Villages in San Diego
  
  BULLET::::- Civita in San Diego
  
  BULLET::::- Laguna West in Elk Grove
  
  BULLET::::- Playa Vista in Los Angeles
  
  BULLET::::- Aggie Village in Davis
  
  Section::::United States.:Colorado.
  
  BULLET::::- Bradburn Village in Westminster
  
  BULLET::::- Highlands' Garden Village in Denver
  
  BULLET::::- Prospect New Town  in Longmont
  
  BULLET::::- South Main in Buena Vista
  
  BULLET::::- Stapleton in Denver
  
  BULLET::::- Three Springs in Durango
  
  Section::::United States.:Florida.
  
  BULLET::::- Abacoa in Jupiter
  
  BULLET::::- Amelia Park on Amelia Island in Fernandina Beach
  
  BULLET::::- Avalon Park near Orlando
  
  BULLET::::- Baldwin Park in Orlando
  
  BULLET::::- Brytan in Gainesville
  
  BULLET::::- Disney's Celebration
   Noent, the original name for Newent, may mean "new place" in Celtic. It also may mean "new inn" to reference lodging for travellers to Wales, according to John Leland (c. 1503 – 1552). According to Leland, there was a house called "New Inn", later named The Boothall, that provided lodging along the road to Wales.
  
  Section::::Geography.
   Evidence of five place names from portolans from medieval Italian, Catalan and Greek navigators of the north coast of the Black Sea support the view of a medieval New England east of Constantinople. It is possible that "Susaco" (or "Porto di Susacho") derives from the word 'Saxon' or 'South Saxons' (from the Kingdom of Sussex, now Sussex). This may be the place that gave its name to the Ottoman fortress of "Sudschuk-ckala'h" or "Sujuk-Qale", now the site of the Russian port city of Novorossiysk.
   BULLET::::- "Asia Minor" : The name "Asia" was first applied to the mainland east of the Aegean islands, and later extended to the greater landmass of which that is a peninsula.
  
  BULLET::::- "Baja California" : The name "California" was first applied to the peninsula (thought to be an island) now known as Baja ("Lower"), and later extended – and then restricted – to Alta ("Upper") California, and finally to the current U.S. state.
  
  BULLET::::- "East Indies" : After Columbus landed in the West Indies.
   BULLET::::- In "That 70's Show" season 2 episode 24, Hyde begins a joke with "There once was a girl from Nantucket..."
  
  BULLET::::- In "The Bad News Bears" season 2 episode 12 "The Good Life" Tanner enters a poetry contest with "There once was a man from Nantucket..." before the principal cuts him off.
  
  BULLET::::- in the suits season 3 episode 9 rachel starts to recite : "there was once a girl from nantucket ..."
  
  BULLET::::- In "Did you hear about the Morgans?', Hugh Grant jokes about his vows by saying "There once was a girl from Nantucket...".
  
  Section::::External links.
   The term "Newar" or "Newa:" referring to "inhabitant of Nepal" appeared for the first time in an inscription dated 1654 in Kathmandu. Italian Jesuit priest Ippolito Desideri (1684–1733) who traveled to Nepal in 1721 has written that the natives of Nepal are called Newars. It has been suggested that "Nepal" may be a sanskritization of "Newar", or "Newar" may be a later form of "Nepal". According to another explanation, the words "Newar" and "Newari" are colloquial forms arising from the mutation of P to W, and L to R.
   In the Book of Revelation in the New Testament, the city is also called the Heavenly Jerusalem, as well as being called Zion in other books of the Christian Bible.
  
  Section::::Judaism and origin.
   BULLET::::- Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee, created in 1969 by the incorporation of the former communities of Soddy and Daisy, plus some surrounding areas
  
  BULLET::::- Texarkana, on the border between Texas and Arkansas, and near the triple point of those two states with Louisiana
  
  BULLET::::- Winston-Salem, North Carolina, created by the 1913 merger of the towns of Winston and Salem.
  
  BULLET::::- Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, named after British Parliamentarians John Wilkes and Isaac Barré who were sympathetic to colonial concerns
  
  Section::::Traditionally conjoined entities.:Other countries.
   BULLET::::- Baker Island National Wildlife Refuge, an unincorporated territory: for American captain Michael Baker of New Bedford, Massachusetts, who claimed to have discovered it in 1832 or 1834, despite being the third to have done so.
  
  BULLET::::- Guam, a territory: From the native Chamorro word "guahan", meaning "we have".
  
  BULLET::::- Howland Island, a territory: Bestowed by Capt. George E. Netcher in honor of the lookout who sighted it from his ship, the "Isabella", on 9 September 1842.
   New Mecklenburg
  
  New Mecklenburg may refer to:
  
  BULLET::::- Gomersal, South Australia, village in the Barossa Valley renamed in 1918
  
  BULLET::::- Marysville, California, county seat of Yuba County
  
  BULLET::::- New Ireland (island), large island in the state of Papua New Guinea, known as Neu Mecklenburg while under German colonial control from 1885 to 1914
  
  BULLET::::- New Ireland Province, administrative division of Papua New Guinea
  
  BULLET::::- Westgarthtown, Victoria was known as Neu Mecklenburg from establishment around 1850 until World War I when it was absorbed into Thomastown
   He did confirm, however, that the Shire, the land of his Hobbit heroes, was "based on" England:
  
  'The Shire' is based on rural England and not any other country in the world...
  
  In the Prologue to "The Lord of the Rings", Tolkien writes: "Those days, the Third Age of Middle-earth, are now long past, and the shape of all lands has been changed..."
  
  The Appendices make several references in both history and etymology of topics 'now' (in modern English languages) and 'then' (ancient languages);
  