VANDALIA

'Vandalia' is the name of some places in the United States of America:

Vandalia, Illinois

Vandalia, Michigan

Vandalia, Missouri

Vandalia, Ohio

★ 'Vandalia' was also a poetic name for Andalusia since it was ruled by the Vandals.

★ In ''Don Quixote'', the bachelor Sansón Carrasco disguises himself as an errant knight paying courtly love to the imaginary Casildea of 'Vandalia', playing with the contrast between chivalric fantasy and reality.

★ The name 'Vandalia colony' had also been applied by the British to a proposed 14th colony which would have encompassed a vast territory west of the Allegheny Mountains including most of present day West Virginia and much of Kentucky. Point Pleasant, West Virginia, was the proposed capital of this colony.[1]

USS ''Vandalia'' has been the name of four ships in the United States Navy.

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