Why is America called “America”?

by Bianca Tragni In a late 16th century atlas, conserved in a museum at Sélestat, a small town in Alsace near Strasbourg, the New World is “christened” for the first time as “America”.
Columbus discovered those territories but it was Amerigo Vespucci who was the first to maintain that it was a new continent, and not the Indies. March 2012