Examples of using Was named after in English and their translations into French
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The company was named after the banker Alfred Berg,
The square in front of the church was named after Herder when the Herder Memorial was established in 1850.
The Territory was named after a Spanish monastery by Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the island in 1493.
The archipelago was named after the cliffs, and due to the specific geological forms resembling the crown on the peaks of the island?
The museum, in a stately neo-Renaissance building, was named after the accomplished archaeologist of the city, Mór Wasinszky.
This rose was named after the hero of the Ellis Peters detective stories,
Queen Mary 2 was named after Queen Elizabeth II in 2004
This province was named after Queen Victoria's fourth daughter,
As a tribute, a new model Ferrari was named after him in 2002; The Ferrari Enzo.
The national flower of Colombia is the orchid Cattleya trianae which was named after the Colombian naturalist José Jerónimo Triana.
The main-belt asteroid 12761 Pauwels, discovered by his colleague Eric Elst at La Silla Observatory in 1993, was named after him in 1993.
Who left you alone on the very street… that was named after your family!
The settlement, which was named after Stauning's apartment in Kanslergade in Copenhagen,
The party was named after the New Deal, the political program
He was named after a maternal great-uncle, Vitus Pedersen Bering,
the Adam Room was named after the British architect Robert Adam,
The village was named after the baron family which even today still lives there
British Columbia, was named after Augustus Leopold Kuper.
The county was named after James Webb,
The now-abandoned fort was named after Brigadier General Richard C. Drum,