In contemporary English, North and South America are generally considered separate continents, and taken together are called the Americas in the plural. When conceived as … See more

Americus Vesputius was the Latinized version of the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci's name, the forename being an old Italianization (compare modern Italian Enrico) of Medieval Latin Emericus (see Saint Emeric of Hungary), from the Old High German name See more

Bristol antiquarian Alfred Hudd suggested in 1908 that the name was derived from the surname "Amerike" or "ap Meryk" and was used on early … See more

• "The man who inspired America?", BBC Features, 29 April 2002
• Jonathan Cohen, "It's All in a Name", Bristol Times
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The earliest known use of the name America dates to April 25, 1507, when it was applied to what is now known as South America. It appears on a small globe map with twelve time zones, together with the largest wall map made to date, both created … See more

In 1874, Thomas Belt published the indigenous name of the Amerrisque Mountains in present-day Nicaragua. The next year, See more

In 1977, the World Council of Indigenous Peoples (Consejo Mundial de Pueblos Indígenas) proposed using the term Abya Yala instead … See more