The phrase "eponymous city" refers to a city that is named after a person, usually the founding figure or a prominent individual associated with the city's history or development. Full definition
Yet for all the set - pieces he directs the hell out of — an opening hunt; a piranha attack — it's only in its elliptical final throes that the film eclipses its surface pleasures, as the eponymous city shifts from narrative goal to vaporous MacGuffin. (lwlies.com)
That is the key lesson of director Ava DuVernay's incredibly intelligent and resolutely patient Selma, which depicts the buildup to, the false starts of, and the eventual success of the 1965 protest march from the eponymous city to Montgomery, Alabama. (markreviewsmovies.com)