Duke City

English Etymology Named after Francisco Fernández de la Cueva, 10th Duke of Alburquerque. Proper noun ~ Duke City en US colloquial en @nickname for:Albuquerque city s/New Mexico c/USA. 17 December 1992 Julio Moran Book Review: Anaya’s Tale of ‘Alburquerque’: An Old Name, and Same Old Story‘Albuquerque,’ by Rudolfo Anaya; University of New Mexico Press: 1992; 288 pages, $19.95 cloth. https://web.archive.org/web/20260708090729/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1992-12-17-ti-2659-story.html The tale is pretty standard stuff—an ex-Golden Gloves champ’s search for his real father intertwined with a ruthless wanna-be Spanish blueblood attorney’s dreams of turning the Duke City’s downtown into a desert Venice by rechanneling the waters of the Rio Grande into canals. 19 September 2019 Elaine Glusac 36 Hours in Albuquerque https://web.archive.org/web/20190919091112/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/19/travel/what-to-do-36-hours-in-albuquerque.html Any conversation about travel to New Mexico seems to start with Santa Fe, the tourist-magnet about 60 miles up the road from Albuquerque, the state’s largest city. But Duke City (so called for its namesake, the Duke of Alburquerque, the early 18th-century Viceroy of New Spain) has been emerging from its neighbor’s shadow ever since the popular drama “Breaking Bad” began in 2008. See also en Brew City Sin City en eponyms