Humanities, Social Sciences and Law
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DOI: 10.17160/josha.2.3.37
AMERICA COMES FROM FREIBURG: Cartographer Waldseemüller from Freiburg was the first to show the New World as a Continent in 1507 and named it AMERICA
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Rudolf-Werner Dreier
”America“ is a word that is now part of our everyday language. We speak of ”America” and the ”Americans” rather than of the ”United States”. But where does this name…