896: frankfurt May 22, 2017

There are plenty of misleading city-names, like Strasbourg discussed here yesterday, that have the appearance of being part of from one country, or linguistic region, but for whatever reason are not. This happens with towns and cities on national borders more often, but they do not have to be, like with 'Kluczbork' (in German 'Kreuzburg') in south-central Poland. This is true also of the City of Frankfurt am Main. Though many German immigrants settled in the Midwest in the United States leading to different spelling 'Frankfort' in Kentucky, Indiana, and Illinois, the word comes from the days of being in the Frankish empire, which consisted of most of modern-day France, much of southeast Germany, and elsewhere. The latter half of the name is of Germanic origin, related to the English 'ford' meaning a shallow part of a river.