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The county was established in 1794. The name Onondaga derives from the name of the Native American tribe who lived in this area at the time of European contact, one of the original Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee. They called themselves (autonym) Onoda'gega, sometimes spelled Onontakeka. The word means "People of the Hills." Sometimes the term was Onondagaono ("The People of the Hills"). The federally recognized Onondaga Nation has a 9.3 square miles reservation within the county, on which they have self-government.
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Amber | Apulla | Baldwinsville | Borodino | Brewerton (part) | Bridgeport (part) | Camillus | Cardiff | Cicero | Clay | Delphi Falls | DeWitt | East Syracuse | Elbridge | Fabius | Fairmount | Fayetteville | Galeville | Geddes | Jack's Reef | Jamesville | Jordan | Kirkville | LaFayette | Lakeland | Liverpool | Lyncourt | Lysander | Manilus | Marcellus | Marietta | Mattydale | Memphis | Messina Springs | Minoa | Mottville | Mycenae | Navarino | Nedrow | North Syracuse | Onondaga Hills | Onondaga Reservation | Oran | Otisco | Otisco Valley | Plainville | Pompey | Pompey Center | Radisson | Rose Hill | Salina | Seneca Knolls | Shepard Settlement | Skaneateles | Skaneateles Falls | Solvay | South Spafford | Spafford | Spafford Valley | Split Rock | Syracuse (County Seat) | Taunton | Tully | Van Buren | Village Green | Warners | Westvale
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