What is the ancient name of New York?

Answer 1

I live in manhattan, and I remember that the natives from the north (which is where I live, Inwood-Northern manhattan) called the island Shorakappak.

There is a rock in the park up here where there used to be a huge tree, supposedly the explorer who bought the island from the natives conducted the deal on that very spot.

You can google this... The details escape me at the moment.

Answer 2

I don't know what the Indians called it, but it was named New Amsterdam by the Dutch in 1613. it was changed to New York in 1664 after the Duke of New York and Albany. The original City of New York is located on the southern tip of Manhattan Island. New York was also called New Orange for a about one year.

Answer 3

New Netherland
History of New York
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This article is about the history of New York State.
For a history of the city see: History of New York City.
The Dutch were the first European settlers in the colony known as New Netherland. The southern tip of Manhattan was settled by the Dutch in 1613 as well as Fort Nassau was founded near the site of present-day Albany in 1614 and abandoned in 1618. About thirty Walloon families settled on the shores of the Hudson River in present-day New York City and on the Delaware River around 1624. The Dutch also established Fort Orange near present-day Albany in 1624. New Amsterdam was established on the island of Manhattan which a year later Peter Minuit purchased from the Algonquin Indians. After the English took over in 1664, the colony was renamed New York, after the Duke of York, the future King James II.

Answer 4

New Angouleme

The area was long inhabited by the Lenape; Lenape in canoes met Giovanni da Verrazzano, the first European explorer to enter New York Harbor, in 1524. Giovanni da Verrazzano named this place New Angouleme (Nouvelle Angoulême in french) in the honor of the French king Francis I ('François 1er' in french). (Believed to be after this event) A French explorer and mapper, Samuel de Champlain, described his explorations through New York in 1608. A year later Henry Hudson, an Englishman working for the Dutch, claimed the area in the name of the Netherlands. It was to be called New Netherlands. Now it is New York

Answer 5

New Amsterdam by the Dutch, (The island) Manhattan by the Native Americans

Answer 6

a dutch named Peter Minuit baught the island of mana-hatta from the local indians in 1623, and founded the settlement called Nieuw Amsterdam - New Amsterdam.

Answer 7

ancient york

Answer 8

Originally, the colonists (being Dutch) called it New Amsterdam. What the Indians who settled there called it is probably some variation on "rocky island".

Answer 9

The word 'ancient' doesn't really apply to anything that happened in the last 2,000 years. Try "historical."

Answer 10

new Amsterdam from the Dutch and then England toke over and called it New york