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meaning of SARASOTA
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Carol Goins
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2/19/2009, 5:34 PM
Would like to know what Sarasota means? In Sarasota, Florida. Spanish. Found that in 1700's Spanish already had the name
Zara
Zote; was retained as
Sara
Sota. Nickname of Paradise.
#Sarasota
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Cleveland Kent Evans
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2/19/2009, 7:02 PM
George
R.
Stewart
's
American Place Names
says "uncertain but probably from an Indian original, shaped to a Spanish form."
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