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Naming of the Americas

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from the charge of having arrogated to himself the privilege of naming lands, which privilege was reserved to monarchs and explorers, but also is freed from the charge of violating the long-established and virtually inviolable ancient European tradition of using only the first name of royal individuals as opposed to the last name of commoners (such as Vespucci) in bestowing names to lands.
525:, unfamiliar with Richard Ameryk, assumed that the name America, which he claimed had been in use for ten years, was based on Amerigo Vespucci and, therefore, mistakenly transferred the honour from Ameryk to Vespucci. While Hudd's speculation has found support from some authors, there is no strong evidence to substantiate his theory that Cabot named America after Richard Ameryk. 512:
unexpected. Hudd also thought it unlikely that America would have been named after Vespucci's given name rather than his family name. Hudd used a quote from a late 15th-century manuscript (a calendar of Bristol events), the original of which had been lost in an 1860 Bristol fire, that indicated the name America was already known in Bristol in 1497.
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during his voyage of exploration to North America in 1497. The idea that Richard Amerike was a 'principal supporter' of Cabot has gained popular currency in the 21st century. There is no evidence to support this. Similarly, and contrary to a recent tradition that names Amerike as principal owner and
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which sought both Western Hemispheric domination and disengagement from the "Old World" continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa. By the 1950s, however, virtually all American geographers had come to insist that the visually distinct landmasses of North and South America deserved separate designations.
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In this view, native speakers shared this indigenous word with Columbus and members of his crew, and Columbus made landfall in the vicinity of these mountains on his fourth voyage. The name America then spread via oral means throughout Europe relatively quickly even reaching Waldseemüller, who was
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While it might seem surprising to find North and South America still joined into a single continent in a book published in the United States in 1937, such a notion remained fairly common until World War II. It cannot be coincidental that this idea served American geopolitical designs at the time,
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Among the reasons which proponents give in adopting this theory include the recognition of, in Cohen's words, "the simple fact that place names usually originate informally in the spoken word and first circulate that way, not in the printed word". In addition, Waldseemüller not only is exonerated
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has commonly been read as argument, in which the author said that he was naming the newly discovered continent in honor of Vespucci and saw no reason for objections. But, as etymologist Joy Rea has suggested, it could also be read as an explanation, in which he indicates that he has heard the New
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Romance-speaking countries of Africa), Germanic (but excluding English) speaking (including Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands), and elsewhere, where America is still considered a continent encompassing the
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Vespucci was apparently unaware of the use of his name to refer to the new landmass, as Waldseemüller's maps did not reach Spain until a few years after his death. Ringmann may have been misled into crediting Vespucci by the widely published Soderini Letter, a sensationalized version of one of
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in 1503). Hudd postulated that Cabot named the land that he had discovered after Ameryk, from whom he received the pension conferred by the king. He stated that Cabot had a reputation for being free with gifts to his friends, such that his expression of gratitude to the official would not be
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Moreover, because Amerike's coat of arms was similar to the flag later adopted by the independent United States, a legend grew that the North American continent had been named for him rather than for Amerigo Vespucci. It is not widely accepted - the origin is usually attributed to the
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This year (1497), on St. John the Baptist's day (June 24th), the land of America was found by the merchants of Bristow, in a ship of Bristowe called the 'Mathew,' the which said ship departed from the port of Bristowe the 2nd of May and came home again the 6th August
198:, states, "I do not see what right any one would have to object to calling this part , after Americus who discovered it and who is a man of intelligence, Amerigen, that is, the Land of Americus, or America: since both Europa and Asia got their names from women". 705:"In Europe and other parts of the world, many students are taught of six continents, where North and South America are combined to form a single continent of America. Thus, these six continents are Africa, America, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, and Europe." 345:
Vespucci's actual letters reporting on the mapping of the South American coast, which glamorized his discoveries and implied that he had recognized that South America was a continent separate from Asia. Spain officially refused to accept the name
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instead of "America" when referring to the continent. There are also names in other indigenous languages such as Ixachitlan and Runa Pacha. Some scholars have adopted the term as an objection to colonialism.
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applied the names North and South America on his influential 1538 world map; by this point, the naming was irrevocable. Acceptance may have been aided by the "natural poetic counterpart" that the name
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This shift did not seem to happen in most other cultural hemispheres on Earth, such as Romance-speaking (including France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Romania, Switzerland,
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suggested in 1908 that the name was derived from the surname "Amerike" or "ap Meryk" and was used on early British maps that have since been lost. Richard ap Meryk, anglicised to
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Amerigo Vespucci (March 9, 1454 – February 22, 1512) was an Italian explorer, financier, navigator and cartographer who may have been the first to assert that the
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preparing a map of newly reported lands for publication in 1507. Waldseemüller's work in the area of denomination takes on a different aspect in this view. Jonathan Cohen of
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In some parts of the world students are taught that there are only six continents, as they combine North America and South America into one continent called the Americas.
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dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. It appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest
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for two centuries, saying that Columbus should get credit, and Waldseemüller's later maps, after Ringmann's death, did not include it; in 1513 he labelled it "
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Hudd proposed his theory in a paper which was read at the 21 May 1908 meeting of the Clifton Antiquarian Club, and which appeared in Volume 7 of the club's
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means, a country of perpetually strong wind, or the Land of the Wind, and ... the can mean ... a spirit that breathes, life itself."
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In contemporary English, North and South America are generally considered separate continents, and taken together are called
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Africa, the Americas, Antarctica, Asia, Australia together with Oceania, and Europe are considered to be Continents.
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in France. These were the first maps to show the Americas as a land mass separate from Asia. An accompanying book,
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In 1977, the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (Consejo Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas) proposed using the term
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Evan T. Jones, "The Matthew of Bristol and the financiers of John Cabot's 1497 voyage to North America",
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and corresponding mainland were not part of Asia's eastern outskirts as initially conjectured from
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suggested a derivation of the continent's name from this mountain range. Marcou corresponded with
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Central America is not a continent but a subcontinent since it lies within the continent America.
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America ab inventore nuncupata (America, called after its discoverer) on the Globe vert, c. 1507
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Latein/Amerika, in: Susan Arndt and Nadja Ofuatey-Alazard: Wie Rassismus aus Wörtern spricht
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Origin of the name of the continents, most likely named after Amerigo Vespucci
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Cabot and Bristol's age of discovery: the Bristol discovery voyages 1480-1508
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in the plural. When conceived as a unitary continent, the form is generally
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World was called America, and the only explanation lay in Vespucci's name.
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of Bristol. According to some writers, he was the principal owner of the
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included the name America in a 1528 work of geography published in
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of 1937): According to historians Kären Wigen and Martin W. Lewis,
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in the singular. However, without a clarifying context, singular
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was a wealthy Anglo-Welsh merchant, royal customs officer and
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in 1492. It is generally accepted that the name derives from
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could refer to a single continent until the 1950s (as in
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Historically, in the English-speaking world, the term
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Index

Naming of America

Amerigo Vespucci
Christopher Columbus
Americas
Amerigo Vespucci
Spain
Portugal
Martin Waldseemüller
Amerrisque mountain range
Richard Amerike
Bristol
United States of America
Van Loon
Latin America
postcolonial
subcontinents
Central America

Waldseemüller
wall map
cartographer
Martin Waldseemüller
Saint-Dié-des-Vosges
Cosmographiae Introductio
Matthias Ringmann
New World
Mercator
his map

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