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In 1886, Jules Marcou said Vespucci renamed himself from Alberigo Vespucci ( Albericus Vespucius ) to Amerigo Vespucci after meeting the native inhabitants of the eponymous Amerrique mountain ranges of Nicaragua that connect North America and South America, an important geographic feature of New World maps and charts.

Moreover, there is the 1908 theory that America derives from Richard Amerike of Bristol, England, financier of John Cabot's 1497 expedition.

Cabot is believed the first Western European on the mainland.

In the event, the adjective American subsequently denotes the New World's peoples and things.