Armagmac, a historic county of Gascony in France, which gave its name to a faction at the French court, & a type of brandy they partook thereof.

Chester, a city in North-West England, on the site of an ancient Roman camp (plenty of it remains), and very close to the border with Wales. 

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Chester, a city in North-West England, on the site of an ancient Roman camp (plenty of it remains), and very close to the border with Wales. 

And the name itself comes from the Latin word for a military camp — castrum — so every town or city in the UK with "chester" or "caster" in its name was the site of a Roman camp!  

Riga (capital of Latvia)

@courtenay I know all about the castra and 'chester' names in UK. My family is from obecif them.

Akaroa, a small town in New Zealand that was originally taken by French settlers. (The whole country might have been claimed by France if Britain hadn't hurried to make a treaty with the Maori leadership in 1840)

Auvergne, France

@Courteney: And the name itself comes from the Latin word for a military camp — castrum — so every town or city in the UK with "chester" or "caster" in its name was the site of a Roman camp!

The original Latin name for Chester was Deva, just as the original name for York was Eburacum, until it became Jorvik.  

El Cerrito (California, USA)

Oy, Russia

Young Nick's Head, a headland in New Zealand.

(Young Nick, probably the cabin boy, is credited with sighting the first piece of land from explorer Captain Cook's ship Endeavour in 1769).

Dickinson (North Dakota, USA)

Nannup,  Western Australia. 

Puckapunyal, an Australian Army training base in northern Victoria, Australia. (My late grandfather trained there before going off to WW2.)

Leesburg (Virigina, USA)

Golconda, a fortified city in Hyderabad, India (famous for its diamond mines)

Altrincham, a town in northwest England that's almost part of Manchester. 

Manchester, a city in northwest England that's not quite part of Altrincham.