# Pair of namesake cities with both cities of roughly equal importance

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 23, 2020, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pair-of-namesake-cities-with-both-cities-of-roughly-equal-importance/916083 "2020-07-23T07:23:46Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pair-of-namesake-cities-with-both-cities-of-roughly-equal-importance/916083/61 "2020-07-27T13:23:37Z")

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> [@SanVito](#):
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> Any connection with St George? He’s their patron saint and appears on their flag, so I always assumed that’s where they got the name from. Happy to be wrong on this.

If [Wikipedia is accurate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_Georgia_(country)#Georgia), there isn’t a direct connection between the name that Europeans use to describe the nation, and the name of the saint.

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**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pair-of-namesake-cities-with-both-cities-of-roughly-equal-importance/916083/62 "2020-07-27T19:41:45Z")

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I’ll chime in with Cordoba Spain and its namesake Cordoba Argentina. The Spanish city is much older and more historically significant, having been the a major city of the Moorish culture of Andalusia, but the Argentine city is currently more populous. So I think it comes out about equal.

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**Post date:** [July 27, 2020, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pair-of-namesake-cities-with-both-cities-of-roughly-equal-importance/916083/63 "2020-07-27T19:59:37Z")

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My city of Syracuse, NY is named after Sicily, Italy. From Wiki:

The name Syracuse was chosen, after Syracuse , Sicily, because of similarities such as a salt industry and a neighboring village named Salina. Syracuse, NY was originally a town but later grew into a city.

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**Post date:** [July 28, 2020, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pair-of-namesake-cities-with-both-cities-of-roughly-equal-importance/916083/64 "2020-07-28T13:48:37Z")

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Not exactly what the OP was asking for, but Jim Gaffigan has a funny bit in his latest show from Canada about St. John, New Brunswick, and St. John’s, Newfoundland.

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**Post date:** [July 29, 2020, 9:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pair-of-namesake-cities-with-both-cities-of-roughly-equal-importance/916083/65 "2020-07-29T09:13:03Z")

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In a way, San Juan, Puerto Rico, fits in here too - the same name in a different language.

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