Panama City
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Panama City, Panama, USA 1. Panama: founded as Panamá near a village of that name in 1519. It was destroyed in 1671 but rebuilt three years later on a site a few miles west of the old town. Traditionally, the name is said to mean ‘(Place with) an Abundance of Fish’. However, some believe it comes from a Cuna phrase
panna mai ‘far away’; the story goes that Spanish soldiers asked a Cuna where they might be able to find gold and received the reply
panna mai in the hope that they too would go far away. It has been the capital of Panama since 1903. It is sometimes called simply Panama.2. USA (Florida): an English settlement dating from about 1765 and called Old Town; it was later renamed St Andrew. This fishing village merged in 1909 with another village called Panama City, named after the city in the Canal Zone in Panama, and took its name.
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