Indianapolis Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ==Etymology== {{See also|List of modern words formed from Greek polis}} The name Indianapolis is derived from pairing the state's name, ''Indiana'' (meaning "Land of the Indians", or simply "Indian Land"<ref>An earlier use of the name dates to the 1760s when it referenced a tract of land under the control of the Commonwealth of Virginia, but the area's name was discarded when it became a part of that state. See {{cite journal | last= Hodgin | first= Cyrus | year=1903| title= The Naming of Indiana |journal= Papers of the Wayne County, Indiana, Historical Society| volume=1| issue=1 | pages=3β11| publisher=Wayne County, Indiana, Historical Society| format =pdf transcription| url=http://www.in.gov/history/2805.htm| access-date =January 23, 2014}}</ref>), with the suffix ''{{lang|el|-polis}}'', the [[Greek language|Greek]] word for "city". [[Jeremiah Sullivan]], justice of the [[Indiana Supreme Court]], is credited with coining the name.<ref>{{cite web|title=Judge Jeremiah Sullivan House|url=https://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/madison/judge_jeremiah_sullivan_house.html|publisher=National Park Service (U.S. Dept. of the Interior)|access-date=August 21, 2017}}</ref> Other names considered were Concord, Suwarrow, and [[Tecumseh]].<ref>A plaque at the City-County Building commissioned by the Society of Indiana Pioneers in 1962 lists these as considered names: "In an act of January 6, 1821, the Indiana General Assembly, then meeting at Corydon, named the new capital of the state 'Indianapolis'. Jeremiah Sullivan, later an eminent Hoosier jurist, acting in cooperation with Samuel Merrill and the approval of Governor Jonathan Jennings, proposed Indianapolis as the name which was chosen in preference to Tecumseh, Suwarrow, and Concord."</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page