>>17898670
>people to name places after things they have little to no connection to.
This proves my point though: western civilization brought 32 places named Troy to America BECAUSE it's western civilizational. Pre-Americans didn't give it those names. If there was no relationship, these places wouldn't exist.
>>17898675
Franks are a different topic. I would love to talk about them, but the only thing we can point out here is that both Troyes and Paris are named after the Trojan war but if anyone looks up theories for etymology they will see references to random tribes which no one argued before the post-modern period.
In other words- people are going back and changing where Troyes and Paris got their names from. Now you might say: "those are medieval too", except they're not. The British and the French ancestors really thought they came from Troy and that brings us neatly along to the oldest actual transmission of the group that came from Troy: The Veneti.