how did georgia get its name?
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In 1724, it was first suggested that the British colony be called Province of Georgia in honor of King George II.
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From Wikipedia:\n\n"The name was constructed by combining the Greek 'kyklos' (circle) with "clan."[3]"
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I traced the early history of GA to here: \n\nCherokee and Creek Indians lived in Georgia when Hernando de Soto, the Spanish explorer, first traveled parts of Georgia in 1540. By 1566, forts were built along the Atlantic coast, including the first in Georgia on St. Catherine's Island. However, no permanent settlements were established.  \n\nIn 1732, English King George II granted a charter for the last of the 13th colony in America. There were originally twenty one trustees named in the 1732 charter "The Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia". Over the period of the trusteeship (1732-1755), fifty more were added. For an alphabetical listing of all the trustees, click here. For more detailed information on the institutional organization and development of the province, please see Georgia as a Proprietary Province: The Execution of a Trust by James Ross McCain (Boston: Richard G. Badger, 1917).
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(1)Xeriscape (pronounced "zera-scape")Between 1990 and 2000, Georgia's population grew by 20 percent, and the majority of these new residents migrated to urban areas. By 2000 more than half of Georgia's 8.1 million residents lived in just 15 of the state's 159 counties. Not only are there more people competing for water resources in urban areas, but periodic drought during the growing season increases the demand for municipal water as citizens turn on irrigation systems to keep their lawns green and their plants healthy. (2) Hybrid Striped x White bass, a bass native to Georgia. Hope this helps
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It comes from the Greek name Alexandros. Alexander is the latin translation of Alexander.\n\nIn Greece Alexandros is used as a first name still and is very common. In other countries Alexander is used both as a first name and as a surname.\n\nIt means defender of mankind or warrior. Andros both in ancient and in modern Greek means man and ex means "of". All together gives you the meaning on the name.\n\nThe most famous Alexander is the Alexander the Great the king of Macedonia (His kingdom was in North Greece with the capital Pella a few klms from Salonika). Lived from 356-323BC and conquered the largest part of the known world of his time. He reached even India and Afghanistan.
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home,sweet home.\nexept this georgia(country)
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The word Asia entered English, via Latin, from Ancient Greek Ασία (Asia; see also List of traditional Greek place names). This name is first attested in Herodotus (about 440 BC), where it refers to Asia Minor; or, for the purposes of describing the Persian Wars, to the Persian Empire, in contrast to Greece and Egypt. Herodotus comments that he is puzzled as to why three different women's names are used to describe a single land mass (Europa, Asia and Libya, referring to Africa), stating that most Greeks assumed that Asia was named after the wife of Prometheus but that the Lydians say it was named after Asias, son of Cotys who passed the name on to a tribe in Sardis.\n\nEven before Herodotus, Homer knew of a Trojan ally named Asios, son of Hyrtacus, a ruler over several towns, and elsewhere he describes a marsh as ασιος (Iliad 2, 461). The Greek term may be derived from Assuwa, a 14th century BC confederation of states in Western Anatolia. Hittite assu- "good" is probably an element in that name.\n\nAlternatively, the ultimate etymology of the term may be from the Akkadian word (w)aṣû(m), cognate of Hebrew יצא, which means "to go out" or "to ascend", referring to the direction of the sun at sunrise in the Middle East, and also likely connected with the Phoenician word asa meaning east. This may be contrasted to a similar etymology proposed for Europe, as being from Semitic erēbu "to enter" or "set" (of the sun). However, this etymology is considered doubtful, because it does not explain the fact that the term "Asia" first came to be associated with Anatolia, which actually lies west of the Semitic speaking areas.
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Savannah\n\nAmerican: From the open plain; This well-known spelling variation of the Spanish Savanna is especially recognizable in the United States as a city in Georgia.\n(Spanish) Savanna; Sabana;\nStar babies: daughter of Steven Seagal and Arissa Wolf, Jimmy Buffett\n\nBased on the 2002 Social Security Ranking, Savannah was ranked the number 40 most popular Girls name in the US.
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Famous Georgians\nConrad Aiken poet, Savannah\nJames Bowie soldier, Burke County\nJim Brown actor, athlete, St. Simons Island\nErskine Caldwell writer, Moreland\nJames E. Carter U.S. president, Plains\nRay Charles singer, Albany\nLucius D. Clay banker, general, Marietta\nTy Cobb baseball player, Narrows\nCharles Coburn movie and TV actor, Macon\nOssie Davis actor, writer, Cogdell\nJames Dickey poet, Atlanta\nMattiwilda Dobbs soprano, Atlanta\nMelvyn Douglas actor, Macon\nPete Drake musician/record producer, Augusta\nRebecca Latimer Felton first appointed woman U.S. senator, Decatur\nLawrence Fishburne III actor, Augusta\nHenry W. Grady journalist, Athens\nAmy Grant singer, Augusta\nOliver Hardy comedian, Harlem\nJoel Chandler Harris journalist, author, Eatonton\nRoland Hayes singer, Curyville\nFletcher Henderson musician/songwriter, Cuthbert\nHulk Hogan professional wrestler, Augusta\nJohn Henry Doc Holliday western hero, Griffin\nLarry Holmes boxer, Cuthert\nMiriam Hopkins actress, Bainbridge\nHarry James trumpeter, Albany\nJasper Johns painter, sculptor, Augusta\nBobby Jones golfer, Atlanta\nStacy Keach actor, Savannah\nDeForest Kelley actor, Atlanta\nMartin Luther King, Jr. civil rights leader, Atlanta\nGladys Knight singer, Atlanta\nJoseph R. Lamar jurist, Elbert\nBrenda Lee singer, Lithonia\nJuliette Gordon Low U.S. Girl Scouts founder, Savannah\nCarson McCullers author, Columbus\nBlind Willie McTell blues pioneer, Thomson\nJohnny Mercer songwriter, Savannah\nMargaret Mitchell author, Atlanta\nJohn Robert Johnny Mize baseball player, Demorest\nJessye Norman singer, Augusta\nOtis Redding singer, Dawson\nJerry Reed singer/songwriter/actor, Atlanta\nBurt Reynolds actor, Waycross\nLittle Richard singer, Macon\nJackie Robinson baseball player, Cairo\nTommy Roe singer/songwriter, Alpharetta\nBilly Joe Royal singer, Valdosta\nDean Rusk secretary of state, Cherokee Cty\nNipsey Russell comedian, Atlanta\nRay Stevens singer/songwriter, Clarksdale\nJanelle Taylor romance novelist, Athens\nClarence Thomas supreme court associate justice, Savannah\nTravis Tritt singer/songwriter, Marietta\nAlice Walker author, Eatonton\nJoanne Woodward actress, Thomasville\nTrisha Yearwood singer, Monticello
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It's originally Gelaye, and is from France.  It was a Huguenot name.
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It refers to the caucasus mountains. The correct term for 'caucasian' or 'white' people is 'european'. The reason that europeans are called caucasians is because a scientist (I think 19th century) falsely stated that the people of the caucasus mountains best represent european people. That falsehood still lives on today in the word caucasian.
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Hi Sebas, here's your answer with a few extras.\n\nWhere did Maryland Get Its Name??? \n\nThe charter that Lord Baltimore received from King Charles I of England specified a name for the new colony. It was to be called Maryland to honor King Charles’ wife Queen Henrietta Maria (Queen Mary). \n\nhttp://www.mdkidspage.org/History.htm\n\nColonial Maryland\n\nhttp://www.timepage.org/spl/13timeline.html\n\nhttp://colonialancestors.com/md/maryland.htm\n\nThe American Colonies\n\nThe history of the original 13 colonies is a tangled tale indeed. There are many ways to view the events and, in hind sight, it is easy to think you understand. But no one knew where they were headed at the time and it could have ended up very different.\n\nhttp://www.dasd-ew.org/history.htm#colonial\n\nhttp://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook12.html\n\nhttp://www.usgennet.org/usa/topic/colonial/index.html\n\nhttp://www.timepage.org/spl/13colony.html\n\nGood luck.\n\nKevin, Liverpool, England.
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State capital of GA, USA  is Atlanta.\nThe capital Georgia, the country, is Tbilisi.
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all the words can be found to come from other languages, the majority of them are originally from Greek!\nBritain, comes from Brutus, the person who founded the new Troy, now known as London!\nScotland, is the Land of Darkness, since the Greeks went there some winter time, more than 5,000 years ago, and since it was dark, they name her so!\nGo, from the Greek verb A go\nsyndicate\ndemocracy\nkiss\nbrake\nstrategy\nand I would need a century or two to proceed!
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its Georgia go check it out
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How did the world get its name? It just happens.
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im only guessing but i would say Athens Georgia since it is the birthplace of REM