A list of approximately 300 toponyms identifying the origins, histories, and founders of New York's classically named communities.

Includes index.

The military tract: cradle of classical naming -- Greek personalities as population centers -- Roman personalities as population centers -- Non Greco-Roman personalities as population centers -- Greek place names in New York state and the old world -- Roman (Italian) place names in New York state and the old world -- Non Greco-Roman place names in New York state and the Old World -- Mythology, New York -- Biblical, New York -- Latin (Latinalia), New York -- Derivative, New York -- Caveat Lector -- Classical cartography.