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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_country-name_etymologies

    checks first few entries

    Antigua and Barbuda

    Antigua: “Ancient”, corrected from earlier Antego,[22] a truncation of the Spanish Santa Maria la Antigua,[23] bestowed in 1493 by Christopher Columbus in honor of the Virgen de la Antigua (“Virgin of the Old Cathedral”[24]), a revered mid-14th-century icon in the Chapel of La Antigua in Seville Cathedral.[25]