The name commemorated not only the town of Angoulême, in the Charente region in France, but also Verrazzano's patron King Francis I of France, who had been Count of Angoulême until his coronation in 1515.
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The place became a Dutch colonial settlement, named New Amsterdam after 1625, until it was conquered by the English in 1664 and renamed New York.
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