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If you look deep enough, pretty much every city's name is actually some banale description of the location or some guy who was relevant to it's founding.
I only recently learned that Budapest was originally two separate cities on opposite sides of a river named Buda and Pest.
Examples of this in the cities of Scotland that we can actually trace the etymologies of:
The rivers here are names of colors.