Daftar julukan kota di Kentucky

Daftar julukan kota di Kentucky ini mengandung samaran, julukan, dan slogan yang disematkan kepada beberapa kota di Kentucky (resmi dan tidak resmi) oleh pemerintah kota, masyarakat setempat, orang asing, badan pariwisata, atau kamar dagang. Julukan kota berperan sebagai perintis identitas lokal, membantu orang asing mengenali masyarakat setempat, atau mengajak orang berkunjung karena julukannya khas; mengangkat martabat daerah; dan mempersatukan masyarakat.^[1] Julukan dan slogan yang berubah menjadi "ideologi atau mitos" baru^[2] juga diyakini memiliki potensi ekonomi.^[1] Potensi ekonominya sulit diukur,^[1] tetapi ada beberapa kota yang memakai slogan baru untuk memasarkan/mencitrakan diri dan memanfaatkan potensi ekonomi tersebut.^[2]

Beberapa julukan tidak resmi bersifat positif dan negatif. Julukan tidak resmi di bawah ini populer dan sudah lama digunakan.

Nicknames for Lexington and Louisville celebrate the Bluegrass Region's horse farms and the state's most famous horse race, the Kentucky Derby, held at Churchill Downs in Louisville.

• Bardstown – Bourbon Capital of the World^[3]
• Benham – The Little Town That International Harvester, Coal Miners, and Their Families Built^[4]
• Berea – Folk Arts and Crafts Capital of Kentucky^[5]
• Bowling Green
  • Vette City^[6]
  • The Park City^[7]
• Burnside – The Only Town on Lake Cumberland^[8]
• Cave City – Gateway to Mammoth Cave^[9]
• Covington – Gateway to the South^[10]
• Crestwood – Whiskers^[11]
• Danville – City of Firsts^[12]
• Elizabethtown – E Town ^[13]
• Elkhorn City – Gateway to the Breaks^[14]
• Fort Thomas – The City of Beautiful Homes^[15]
• Grayson – Heart of the Parks^[16]
• Hazard – Queen City of the Mountains^[17]
• Hopkinsville – Hoptown^[18]
• Hyden – Redbud Capital of the World^[19]
• Lexington
  • Athens of the West^[20]
  • Horse Capital of the World^[21][22]
• Louisville
  • City of Beautiful Churches ^[23]
  • Derby City^[23][24]
  • The Fall City (reported in the 1880s)^[25] or Falls City^[23]
  • Gateway to the South^[26]
  • River City^[23][27]
  • The Ville^[28]
• Madisonville – Best Town on Earth.^[29]
• Manchester – City of Hope^[30]
• Middlesboro
  • The Athens of the Mountains^[31]
  • The City Built Inside a Meteorite Crater^[32]
  • Crater City^[33]
  • Little Las Vegas^[34]
  • The Magic City^[35]
• Monticello – Houseboat Capital of the World^[36]
• Owensboro – Barbecued Mutton Capital of the World^[37]
• Paducah – Quilt City^[38]
• Paintsville – The City Between the Lakes^[39]
• Paris – Thoroughbred Capital of the World^[40]
• Pikeville – The City That Moves Mountains^[41]
• Prestonsburg – The Star City of Eastern Kentucky^[42]
• Renfro Valley – Kentucky's Country Music Capital^[5]
• Shelbyville – The Gateway to the Bluegrass^[43]
• Simpsonville – American Saddlebred Capital of the World^[44]
• Williamsburg – Your Gateway to the Cumberlands^[45]

Lihat pula

• Daftar julukan kota di Amerika Serikat

Referensi

1. Muench, David (December 1993). "Wisconsin Community Slogans: Their Use and Local Impacts" (PDF). University of Wisconsin Extension. Diarsipkan dari versi asli (PDF) tanggal March 9, 2013. Diakses tanggal April 10, 2007. 
2. Alfredo Andia, Branding the Generic City:) Diarsipkan 2008-05-21 di Wayback Machine., MU.DOT magazine, September 10, 2007
3. Claims to Fame - Products Diarsipkan 2007-04-08 di Wayback Machine. Epodunk. Retrieved on 2010-10-16
4. City of Benham Diarsipkan 2012-07-24 di Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2010-10-19
5. Claims to Fame - Art Diarsipkan 2018-08-29 di Wayback Machine. Epodunk. Retrieved on 2010-10-16
6. We Go Places-Bowling Green, Kentucky Retrieved on 2010-2-9
7. explorekentucky.com^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]} Retrieved on 2010-2-9
8. Burnside, Kentucky tourism Retrieved on 2010-10-15
9. Cave City, Kentucky Official website. Retrieved on 2010-10-15
10. City of Covington, Kentucky Diarsipkan 2011-07-08 di Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2010-2-9
11. Solganville, USA Awards For Best City Mottos and Monikers Retrieved on 2010-10-16
12. City of Danville, Ky - City of Firsts Diarsipkan 2008-03-29 di Wayback Machine.
13. Finley, Marty (October 19, 2010). "E'town Moves Trick or Treat to Sunday". The News-Enterprise. Diakses tanggal 2010-10-19. ^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}
14. Elkhorn City, Kentucky Diarsipkan 2017-02-26 di Wayback Machine. Official website. Retrieved on 2010-10-15
15. History of Fort Thomas Diarsipkan 2010-09-23 di Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2010-10-19
16. City of Grayson, Kentucky Retrieved on 2010-10-16
17. Hazard/Perry County Tourism Retrieved on 2010-10-19
18. Hopkinsville/Christian County Visitors Bureau^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]} Retrieved on 2010-2-9
19. Hyden, Kentucky Welcome Sign^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]} Retrieved on 2010-12-19
20. Lexington, Kentucky:Athens of the West National Park Service. Retrieved on 2010-10-15
21. Claims to Fame - Animals Diarsipkan 2011-11-06 di Wayback Machine. Epodunk. Retrieved on 2010-10-16
22. Visit Lexington, Kentucky, accessed April 7, 2007. "Visiting a horse farm while you're in the Horse Capital of the World is a uniquely Bluegrass kind of experience you'll long remember."
23. Jonathan Meador, Art: Behold the mega church Diarsipkan 2011-01-28 di Wayback Machine., LEO Weekly, January 20, 2010. "Louisville has its fair share of nicknames — River City, Falls City, Derby City, Aliville ... the list goes on. But there's one nickname that you might not be aware of: Due to the numerous and varied houses of worship within the city limits, Louisville was once known as the 'City of Beautiful Churches'."
24. Louisville Historic Tours^{[pranala nonaktif permanen]}, Historic Old Louisville Visitors Center website, accessed June 27, 2010
25. Smoky City Retrieved on 2010-10-16
26. Horse Racing in Kentucky, Part II, accessed April 7, 2007. "By then Louisville businesses had severed their northern ties since the only market for Louisville-made tools and food staples was in the war-ravaged South, making "former Confederate officers and soldiers precious commodities when the city's Board of Trade began promoting Louisville as the 'Gateway to the South.'"
27. Parking Authority of River City. Retrieved 2008-02-14.
28. "GameDay in the Ville". 2008-02-09. Diakses tanggal 2009-01-31. 
29. Rich Davis, Words to live by; Pride extends from 'Best Town on Earth' to 'Hub of Universe', Evansville Courier & Press, January 27, 2008. "Until a few decades ago, Madisonville, Ky., had 'Best Town on Earth' signs spanning some of its thoroughfares. 'It goes back to 1903 when the local paper, then known as the Madisonville Daily Hustler, ran a contest to come up with a slogan,' says mayoral assistant Leslie Curneal."
30. Griffith, Wendy (May 2, 2004). "Town's Radical Change a "Hope For America"". Christian Broadcast Network News. Diakses tanggal 2010-10-19. 
31. Art Council Formed in Middlesboro Diarsipkan 2011-07-14 di Wayback Machine. Middlesboro Daily News. Retrieved on 2010-10-15
32. Middlesboro, Kentucky Welcome Sign Retrieved on 2010-05-29
33. Stephen Woodward (2009). "BBC comes to the 'Crater'". Middlesboro Daily News. 
34. Cumberland Manor Bed and Breakfast Diarsipkan 2010-12-19 di Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2010-10-15
35. Matheny, Ann D. (2003). The Magic City: Footnotes to the History of Middlesborough, Kentucky, and the Yellow Creek Valley. Middlesboro, Kentucky: Bell County Historical Society. ISBN 0-9677765-2-X.  Retrieved on 2010-10-15
36. First Southern National Bank - Wayne County Diarsipkan 2011-06-05 di Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2010-05-29
37. The Capital of Whatever The New York Times by Harold Faber, September 12, 1993. Retrieved on 2010-10-16
38. Paducah takes center stage in Quilt City USA Diarsipkan 2012-09-05 di Archive.is, Kentucky Educational Television, February 23, 2004.
39. Official site of the City of Paintsville Diarsipkan 2019-03-09 di Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2010-2-9
40. City of Paris, Kentucky Retrieved on 2010-11-25
41. official site of The City of Pikeville, Kentucky, accessed April 7, 2007. For the origin of this motto, see Pikeville Cut-Through.
42. Prestonsburg Convention and Visitors Bureau Retrieved on 2010-10-16
43. City of Shelbyville, Kentucky Retrieved on 2010-10-19
44. City of Simpsonville Retrieved on 2010-10-19
45. City of Williamsburg, Kentucky Diarsipkan 2010-11-09 di Wayback Machine. Retrieved on 2010-10-15

Pranala luar

• a list Diarsipkan 2015-02-14 di Wayback Machine. of American and a few Canadian nicknames
• U.S. cities list

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