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The name " Virginia " is the oldest designation for English claims in North America.
In 1584 Sir Walter Raleigh sent Philip Amadas and Arthur Barlowe to explore what is now the North Carolina coast, and they returned with word of a regional king ( weroance ) named Wingina, who ruled a land supposedly called Wingandacoa.
The latter word may have inspired the Queen to name the colony " Virginia ", noting her status as the " Virgin Queen.
" On the next voyage, Raleigh was to learn that, while the chief of the Secotans was indeed called Wingina, the expression wingandacoa heard by the English upon arrival actually meant " What good clothes you wear!
" in Carolina Algonquian, and was not the name of the country as previously misunderstood.
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