One reason why Philadelphia was chosen as the site of the convention was because of the symbolic Independence Hall.
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It was named after Sir Walter Raleigh.
Yes. They named it after one of their gods in a convention borrowed from the Greeks.
Apart from the city of Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, a number of other places have also borne this name including three other towns and one village in the United States, one village in Germany (now part of the town of Storkow) and a village in Tyne and Wear, England (named after the American Philadelphia was captured by the British and complete with a Cricket ground named Bunker Hill after a battle at the siege of Boston during the War of Independence). Historically, Alaşehir, a town and district in the Aegean region of Turkey, was known as Philadelphia and an archaeological site is at Darb el-Gerza to uncover the remains of a historical town there called Philadelphia. The only other city named Philadelphia was Amman in Jordan. Called Rabbath Ammon or Rabat Amon by the Ammonites, it was renamed Philadelphia by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Greek ruler of Egypt, after it was captured by the Greeks
Yes, he played for the Philadelphia Eagles.
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In 1681 William Penn named the city Philadelphia, which is Greek for brotherly love (from philos, "love" or "friendship", and adelphos, "brother")
No. there are cities named Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, Tennessee‎, and Mississippi, but none in Kentucky.
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The Philadelphia '76ers. Named for the year 1776.
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Watersheds are named to provide a common convention for identifying them.The names from the water area that created them.
becuse they were named after the frist paralimpices
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