Sometimes places the Europeans named "New this-or-that" are located in the weirdest parts of the world. For instance, "New Ireland" is a state in Papua New Guinea. - ThreadSky

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jj-mccullough.bsky.social • 15 days ago

Sometimes places the Europeans named "New this-or-that" are located in the weirdest parts of the world. For instance, "New Ireland" is a state in Papua New Guinea.

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ceylene.bsky.social•15 days ago

All the racists who think that White people are the most creative people to ever exist, and we hit em with the New Ireland.

goldm.neocities.org•15 days ago

The opposite of this is when you get cities in Ohio named things like Cairo and Versailles and Lima and Medina

robticalillusion.bsky.social•14 days ago

I was watching some videos about the Punic Wars back in ancient times, and even then they were calling places new, like a Carthaginian colony in the Iberian peninsula was called New Carthage, which seems particularly wild to me because it’s not even that far from the old Carthage

lawarch.bsky.social•15 days ago

Papua New Guinea, being named after Guinea in East Africa and Papua in Indonesia makes it even complicated

fra-myopias.bsky.social•15 days ago

Colonial imperialism was quirky like that. Just wait until Ontario is renamed New Mara Lago.

psychoawesome.bsky.social•15 days ago

Yeah, like Newfoundland is really far away from the original foundland.

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