LAS VEGAS & THE VEGA STAR IN THE CONSTELLATION OF LYRA. Was the city built in alignment with the star?

no. not even close.



vega is arabic. las vegas is spanish, and means something completely different.LAS VEGAS %26amp; THE VEGA STAR IN THE CONSTELLATION OF LYRA. Was the city built in alignment with the star?That's an imaginitive idea, but no.



My Spanish dictionary says "Las Vegas" means, "the fertile plains."



This web site (http://www.icoproject.org/star.html ) says that the star name "Vega" is a corruption of the Arabic "Al Waqi'", which means "The stooping eagle."



It's not really meaningful to align something on the ground with a star, because the star's position in the sky changes all the time as the earth rotates. Vega is sometimes in the east, sometimes in the west, and sometimes straight overhead.LAS VEGAS %26amp; THE VEGA STAR IN THE CONSTELLATION OF LYRA. Was the city built in alignment with the star?
No. Las Vegas was initially built where there was a supply of water located near the border of Las Vegas and North Las Vegas. It grew when the Union Pacific Railroad put a line through the town, and it needed a place to add fuel and water for the steam engines. The station was located at the intersection of Fremont St. and Main St.



When Boulder Dam was built in the 1930s, the town grew to meet the needs of the dam workers. My grandparents arrived in Las Vegas in 1931 to supply clothing to the prostitutes in the brothels downtown.LAS VEGAS %26amp; THE VEGA STAR IN THE CONSTELLATION OF LYRA. Was the city built in alignment with the star?No.



"Las Vegas" means "meadows" in Spanish. The area was an oasis in the Nevada desert due to artesian springs.



"Vega" is a transliteration of the Wega which itself comes from a loose transliteration of the Arabic word w膩qi meaning "falling" or "landing".LAS VEGAS %26amp; THE VEGA STAR IN THE CONSTELLATION OF LYRA. Was the city built in alignment with the star?
Nothing can be built in alignment with a single point. Vega is named after an Arabic term, "the alighting vulture", because the constellation Lyra was seen as a vulture by the Arabs.



Las Vegas is Spanish for "The Meadows"LAS VEGAS %26amp; THE VEGA STAR IN THE CONSTELLATION OF LYRA. Was the city built in alignment with the star?No.It was built because it was in an ideal location for The Mob to base a gambling town away from any big city.