What is the origin of the name of your Province or State?
I live in Ontario which name was acquired from the Iroquois word kanadario which means Sparkling Water
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bijouxbroussard · F
Now this I didn’t know ! From historycooperative.org:
California Name Origin: Spanish Explores and Las Sergas de Esplandián
In the 16th century, way before the United States became an actual country, a group of Spanish explorers started searching for an island called California described by a Spanish writer in a book called Las Sergas de Esplandián.
The book was written by a man named Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo, a critically acclaimed writer at the time. It describes a mythical island paradise populated only by black warrior women, east of the Indies, and close to the garden of Eden.
The Spanish explorers did indeed find an unexplored area and believed it to be an island. They believed it to be the mythical island as described by Montalvo.
Little did the explorers know that it wasn’t the exact island they were looking for, or even an island altogether. This didn’t stop them, however, from naming the place after the island described in Montalvo’s novel.
Today, we know that the Spanish conquistadors did discover a terrestrial paradise on the Pacific coast. However, it was the area that we know today as the Baja California Peninsula, or the Baja Peninsula of California.
In the 16th century, way before the United States became an actual country, a group of Spanish explorers started searching for an island called California described by a Spanish writer in a book called Las Sergas de Esplandián.
The book was written by a man named Garcia Ordonez de Montalvo, a critically acclaimed writer at the time. It describes a mythical island paradise populated only by black warrior women, east of the Indies, and close to the garden of Eden.
The Spanish explorers did indeed find an unexplored area and believed it to be an island. They believed it to be the mythical island as described by Montalvo.
Little did the explorers know that it wasn’t the exact island they were looking for, or even an island altogether. This didn’t stop them, however, from naming the place after the island described in Montalvo’s novel.
Today, we know that the Spanish conquistadors did discover a terrestrial paradise on the Pacific coast. However, it was the area that we know today as the Baja California Peninsula, or the Baja Peninsula of California.