American cities named after classical Asia Minor cities- Philadelphia ad infinitum ?

OK, Philadelphia as the city of brotherly love is the most prominent major city in America named after 1 of the ancient Asia Minor cities with substantial churches of the New Testament age- how bout also other such major American cities named after the others a la Ephesus, Laodicea, Philippi (though I think there is a Philippi in VA, correct me if I'm wrong), Colosse, Antioch etc ?
 
Having gone over the map in my head (because I enjoy that sort of thing), and having noticed you're in Australia so you may not be familiar with all these, here are three sizable places (sizable meaning population 100,000 or more):

Two explicitly Catholic names:
Los Angeles - short for something like "the City of Our Lady of the Angels (los Angeles) of Porciuncula"
Corpus Christi (in southern Texas) - which means Body of Christ, in Latin.
Of course you have a slew of cities named after saints - especially in areas colonized by the Spanish, from Texas to California, but also Saint Louis (Missouri), Saint Paul (Minnesota)....

The largest place I can think of with a "classical" name (although I don't know if ther was a New Testament church in its namesake) is Syracuse, in New York State.
But a lot of the small towns around there have Roman names (Ovid, Pompey, Virgil....). Which must have been a deliberate thing. I'd guess that when the area was opened for settlement, and names were needed for municipalities that at that point only existed on paper, someone said, let's go Roman. In fact, the name "military tract" is coming into my head. Let me see what I can find ('cause I enjoy that sort of thing too)....
 
...the largest Alexandria - in Virginia, just outside Washington - having a population over 100,000. How'd I forget that? I'm in that area all the time.
 
Having gone over the map in my head (because I enjoy that sort of thing), and having noticed you're in Australia so you may not be familiar with all these, here are three sizable places (sizable meaning population 100,000 or more):

Two explicitly Catholic names:
Los Angeles - short for something like "the City of Our Lady of the Angels (los Angeles) of Porciuncula"
Corpus Christi (in southern Texas) - which means Body of Christ, in Latin.
Of course you have a slew of cities named after saints - especially in areas colonized by the Spanish, from Texas to California, but also Saint Louis (Missouri), Saint Paul (Minnesota)....

The largest place I can think of with a "classical" name (although I don't know if ther was a New Testament church in its namesake) is Syracuse, in New York State.
But a lot of the small towns around there have Roman names (Ovid, Pompey, Virgil....). Which must have been a deliberate thing. I'd guess that when the area was opened for settlement, and names were needed for municipalities that at that point only existed on paper, someone said, let's go Roman. In fact, the name "military tract" is coming into my head. Let me see what I can find ('cause I enjoy that sort of thing too)....
Well, there's also the Classical names to be found along the Hudson in New York. Troy, Ithaca, and Utica are the ones I can name off the top of my head.

Then there's 'Little Egypt' in southern Illinois and that area, with Cairo, Illinois at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi, Memphis, Tennessee, and others (looking at Wiki there's Thebes, Dongola, Palestine, Lebanon, New Athens, Sparta, and Karnak).

Also, not sure if it was named after the Greek mythology, but Phoenix.

And of course the plethora of Athens' around the United States. Wikipedia shows at least 23.
 
Upstate we have Syracuse, as already mentioned, but also

Utica & Rome, Troy (near Albany), Ilion, Carthage (east of Sackets Harbor)

Not to mention Cicero (just north of Syracuse)
 
fellas, thx for your contributions- however, I need to point out that I was more so referring to the 7 cities where the churches of the Book of Revelation are addressed- of which Philly was 1, together with Ephesus, Smyrna (though I think there is a Smyrna in Alabama ?), Pergamum, Thyatira, Sardis & Laodicea...

btw, I am also aware of the classical references in upstate NY placenames like Attica, Ithaca et al...
 
Yeah, in addition to Athens, Georgia also has cities called Rome and Sparta. And Egypt, and Cairo. What's up with the South and giving cities so many Classical names? Don't see it as much in New England or anywhere else.
 
Yeah, in addition to Athens, Georgia also has cities called Rome and Sparta. And Egypt, and Cairo. What's up with the South and giving cities so many Classical names? Don't see it as much in New England or anywhere else.

Well the southern aristocracy was very well educated and had the love of Rome and Greece that was popular at the time with aristocrats.

While in New England a lot of places were named for places in England.
 
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