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OP There are a lot of cities with strange sounding names, and they have to come from somewhere, right? Here's the place to enlighten everyone with your knowledge of city name origins.
Here are my two cents to start it off:
In times of trouble in the Roman empire, the Senate would appoint a dictator to take over for a period of six months. This dictator had total control of Rome for that time, similar to Marshall law, I would say. In one time of trouble, they appointed a civilian farmer to become dictator. He took power, and when the trouble was over, he abdicated his position and returned to farm his fields, having been in control for far shorter a time than six months. The name of this humble farmer was Cincinnatus, thus the city of Cincinnati.
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