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Maurice (also Moritz, Morris, or Mauritius; Coptic: Ⲁⲃⲃⲁ Ⲙⲱⲣⲓⲥ) was an Egyptian military leader who headed the legendary Theban Legion of Rome in the 3rd century, and is one of the favourite and most widely venerated saints of that martyred group. He is the patron saint of several professions, locales, and kingdoms.
The naming of the Americas, or America, occurred shortly after Christopher Columbus's first voyage to the Americas in 1492. It is generally accepted that the name derives from Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer, who explored the new continents in the following years on behalf of Spain and Portugal.
Mar 29, 2011 · The Naming of America. By Peter MacDonald. Last updated 2011-03-29. Was John Cabot the first European to discover America? How did the continent get its name? Peter Macdonald unravels a...
Dec 7, 2022 · Meaning & History. From the Roman name Mauritius, a derivative of Maurus. Saint Maurice was a 3rd-century Roman soldier from Egypt. He and the other Christians in his legion were supposedly massacred on the orders of Emperor Maximian for refusing to worship Roman gods.
Jul 28, 2022 · Amerigo gave America its name, but what was the origin of the Italian explorer’s name? According to one source, Vespucci’s parents named him after Saint Emeric of Hungary, an 11th-century...
German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller is credited with first using the name America in 1507 on a large 12-panel map based on traveling accounts of explorers of the New World, and in particular those of Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci.
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Oct 9, 2018 · The man from whom the American continents got the names of North America and South America was among the more interesting and romantic characters of the late 15th and early 16th centuries. Amerigo Vespucci (pronounced Ves-poo-chy) was born sometime between 1450 and 1455 at Florence, Italy.
