Famous Cities That Have Changed Names Over Time
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Learn about historical cities that have changed names over time.
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What about Allahabad to Prayagraj .
Yes
Astana to Nursultan .
There is also a whole bunch of UN comittees and subcomittees(UNGEGN) to deal with geographical names or toponyms in different languages.
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Nyenskans -> St. Petersburg -> Petrograd -> Leningrad -> St. Petersburg
I think we need more episode to cover more cities name
Many cities in Russia have changed names.
Tsaritsyn -> Stalingrad -> Volgograd
Kuybyshev -> Samara
Gorky -> Nizhny
@@neverluckym8728 well,in Turkey,like 50 out of 82 cities got renamed in Ottoman's downfall and Turkey's young ages
Twangste -> Königsberg -> Królewiec/Königsberg -> Kaliningrad
It had changed it's name three times in just one century
Fun addendum to that bit about Beijing, the guy who made Pinyin, the romanization of Chinese that the modern spelling of Beijing is based on, lived to be 111 years old and died in 2017.
Dayum
WoW 🤩 Lmao 😆 Oh Frick Daaahng
too bad those not taught in how pinyin properly sounds always butcher it up, just like how tigerstar assumed all the pinyin letters were pronounced the same as english letter pronunciations, which they are not.
F
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History: How many names do you want during your timeline
Beijing: Yes
Stop being everywhere where I am xD
Zhou~Qin: Ji county>Han: YouZhou(state)>Jìn: Yan>16kingdoms: Yan county>Sui: Zhu county>Tang: YouZhou>Liao Khitan: South capital "XiJin" prefecture>Jīn Jurchen: ZhongDu(Central capital)>Yuan: khanbaliq/ DaDu(Grand capital)>Ming: BeiPing(North Pacified) later as ShunTian(Submit to mandate of Heaven) prefecture>Qing: BeiJing/Peking(North capital)>KMT republic: BeiPing>PRC: BeiJing
Your back again
@@hyltoniali257 gone be honest wid u, ion got no idea how too rea dat bru
Peking sounds the coolest.
It’s weird how the old names of places are still used in specific cases.
Peking duck, Persian rugs, Siamese cats, Burmese pythons, etc.
Prussian blue (not a city but point still stands).
In the UK at least we all (including the BBC and Government) still call it Burma
Persian isn't old so much as it is what the Greeks call Iranians. You'll more than likely hear someone refer to ancient Iran as "Persia" and Islamic Iran as just "Iran" nowadays. It makes some sense but it is odd.
Same with Ceylon tea
Rhodesian Ridgeback
Beijing is that one dude who changes its username every week
_Wait a minute..Who are you?_
Even old New York,
was once New Amsterdam...
Why they changed it I can't say
@@masterthg3137 People just like it better that way.
@@masterthg3137 because the english took the city and replace the dutch city name with an english one
@@sergiompvivayutub6501 I don't even use Reddit but that deserves an r/whooosh
@Sierox Heh.Yeah, I had that coming.
*Someone mentions Istanbal*
People: *angry greek and Turkish noises*
"Istanbal"
Gimme your keys, You're clearly drunk. You ain't driving.
do you mean islenbale?
I've never heard of ''Istanbal'' before.
Ah yes the Istantinapole
Constanbal
We need a major city named “Skinners Mudhole.” Imagine if like in history there was this super powerful city where it’s name translated means. “Toxic gas marsh” or something
Eugene was basically marsh and wetlands for the longest time. It wouldn’t be too far off.
Plus it rains a lot.
That's Chicago lmao
There’s a city called “Boat” in Poland (Łódź)
Chicago is stinky onion place or something
IIRC Constantine initially named it “Nova Roma (New Rome)”. More technical still, Byzantium is the Latin for its original name, which in the Native Greek was Byzantion (such a difference I know 😆).
Recently, some historicians, renamed the Roman Empire in Roman-Greek Empire.
TNT well it was a Greco-Roman Empire de facto (Greek was important in Rome, even before the imperial days). Blame the grey-ness on Heraclius.
@@ANC_. do you mean the eastern roman empire?
There's an error in your reasoning of why the West used the name Peking.
Most of the trade activities with the west back in those days were done on the southern part of China. And as you have shown in the earlier part of your video, the southern part of China are dominated by other dialect groups.
"Beijing" has pronunciation similar to what a Mandarin speaker would call the city. "Peking" has pronunciation similar to one of the southern dialects spoken over there when the westerners first interacted with the locals at that time. For reference, Beijing is pronounced as "Pak king" in Cantonese. The neighboring provinces around the Cantonese-speaking region would probably have their pronunciation of Beijing closer to what "Peking" is.
And since modern day China is ruled by Mandarin speakers, thus the official name have changed from Peking to Beijing.
Good history, I never knew few of these.
So you know nearly all?
That’s the whole poiny
The literal state of Kentucky I to enjoy pony’s
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Thousands of years old city bhera in Pakistan.
Leopoldville, the capital of the Congo, became Kinshasa, because of... reasons.
Probably because naming your capital after a guy who genocided your people isn't great.
Still, the other Congo kept its capital as Brazzaville, not named after a mass murderer but the European explorer.
Hitlerville, the capital of Israel, became Tel Aviv, because of... Reasons .
[laughes in hands]
@@TheDirtysouthfan I Always likes the name Brazzaville, what it stands for?
@@momorama8832 it's named for Pierre de Brazza, an Italian-French explorer who was one of the first Europeans to make contact with that region.
You forgot Seoul, which was originally founded as the medieval city Wiryeseong in Baekje, then changed to Namgyeong in the Goryeo dynasty, then to Hanseong in the Joseon dynasty, then to Hanyang from 1890 to 1910, and then Keijo from 1910 to 1945, then Gyeongsong from 1945-1947 before being named Seoul in 1947.
oh boy, part 2 to this video
He didn't "forget", it's not like he was doing every single city that ever changed its name.
Alex Twigg, of course he wasn’t, but Seoul is a major example of a famous city that changed its names many times. I still really liked the video, and was just providing a suggestion for a future video.
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Thousands of years old city bhera in Pakistan.
@@EnigmaticLucas Tokyo is a lazy name. It literally means "Eastern Capital".
Salisbury is pronounced more like how an American would say 'Saul', its like: Saul's-bree
Americans stuggle with English names. Get one to say worcestershire sauce you'll be laughing all day. I've heard all sorts.
*Other cities who changed their name:*
• Saint Petersburg: Saint Petersburg - Petrograd - Leningrad - Saint Petersburg
• Wolgograd: Tsaritsyn - Stalingrad - Volgograd
• Nizhny Novgorod: Nizhny Novgorod - Gorki - Nizhy Novgorod
• Nur-Sultan/Astana: Akmola - Astana - Nur-Sultan
• Kaliningrad: Köningsberg - Kaliningrad
• New York - New Amsterdam - New York
• Ho-Chi-Minh City: Saigon - Ho-Chi-Minh City
• Pristina: Pristina - Titograd - Pristina
• Canton: Canton - Guangzhou
Note: A lot of other, lesser known Russian cities changed their name. A lot of Polish cities too after WW2
Was Pristina actually referred to as Titograd? I'm pretty sure Podgorica was called Titograd when Tito ruled Yugoslavia. The IATA code for Podgorica Airport is TGD. And Astana was referred to as Tselinograd probably before it was called Astana. The IATA code for that city's airport is TSE. The IATA still uses codes for the old names of cities even after those cities had their names changed.
well... Canton is more like a province than a city, but that's just me cherry-picking
Also Zlín was reffered to as Gottwaldov, during the communist rule in Czechoslovakia.
@@grahamturner2640 I don't think it was referred to as Titograd, maybe inly by the government. I probably missed some name changes, I just quickly typed the ones I knew
Yes,during the ottoman rule Balkan names were so messed up too, and in Anatolia most of the cities got renamed after Turkey got formed
Astana was just recently renamed to Nur-Sultan.
ow maaaaan, I liked Astana much better
Astana is in my top 10 best capital names along with Nairobi, Rome Ottawa, Havana and others, tho Nur-sultan is not THAT bad
@@ephraimboateng5239, I mean, it was named after a semi-dictatorial president who ruled the country from 1990 all the way to 2019 soooo... eh.
Mexico City was known as Tenochtitlan before the Spanish came in. I'm not sure if there were any other names for that city before then.
Tenochtitlan was founded by the Aztecs, so that was the original name
I mean, technically, the entirety of Tenochtitlan was basically demolished and rebuilt into Mexico City. Any remnants are beneath the modern capital
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Thousands of years old city bhera in Pakistan.
Picture of Istanbul at the start
Ah yes, a fight
"Pekín" is still the official and most common way to transliterate Beijing into spanish, as well as it's demonym "pekinés" to things and people related to the city, such as the dish "pato pekinés" (Beijing duck)
We actually still call it Peking duck in English
In France, we are starting to shift from Pékin to Beijing. It's a slow process but it's definitively gonna catch up (unless China makes a new sudden change).
As a Beijinger, you explained it pretty well. Thanks for highlighting on the history of my hometown. There aren’t many channels talking its specific history.
Buda and Pest are TECHNICALLY part of this too... they just united and became Budapest
History of Hanoi: Long Biên -> Tống Bình / Long Đỗ -> Đại La / La Thành -> Thăng Long -> Đông Đô -> Đông Quan -> Đông Kinh -> Bắc Thành -> Hà Nội
Even old New York was once known as New Amsterdam, but old York changed its name several times. The Celts, Romans, Angles, Danes and England post-Norman invasion gave it all differs names
Yeah i think Eubora was York and London Londinium or Paris was Lutetia I think and Augsburg in Germany was something like Augusta in latin, but I think it‘s just a change in the language and not in the city name itself
I think York was called Jórvik by the Norse.
seneca983 Yeah but York was founded by the romans and then came the celtish tribes then the anglo saxons and then the norse
tobɨ the Celts were there before the Romans
Astana in Kazakhstan changed to Nur-Sultan. Reval changed to Tallinn. Stalinabad to Dushanbe.
Some Irish examples to Kingstown to Dún Laoghaire, Queenstown to Cobh and Maryborough to Portlaoise. These were done to distance Ireland from Britain after independence.
Well, after USSR was dissolved, many Russian cities changed names
UPD: didn't mean to start big discussion below
like stalingrad became volgograd
@@junehazel7946 no, it has been Volgograd since 1961
It was named Tsaritsin before the USSR.
One collateral damage though : the city of Stalino had that name since before 1917 due to its steel production. Renamed as Donetsk
@@junehazel7946 Stalingrad was changed to Volgograd in 1961 because Khrushchev and De-Stalinization.
An interesting case is Leningrad. It changed to St. Petersburg, however the Oblast name remained Leningrad Oblast.
Volgagrad is also interesting. It was originally Tsaritsyn, but during the Russian Civil War Stalin held onto the city and got it named after him into Stalingrad, especially as Tsaritsyn is obviously too Tsarist. During the De-Stalinization it became Volgagrad, which is a boring name since it just means Volga City. Some people want to change it back to Stalingrad due to the pivotal battle during WWII as well.
Palermo, during the arab domination of Sicily, was called Madinah by some arab historicians.
Wasn't it called Balarm?
Madinah means city in Arabic.
Constantinople: *Becomes Istanbul*
"I pulled a little sneaky on ya"
in 1930
Beijing in Germany is called Peking. Now I understand how this happened to be this way.
In Arabic it's pekin
In portuguese is Pequum
In Italian is Pechino
I’m going to call that now. I love Germany.
In Hungarian as well.
@6:56, you switch between traditional characters and simplified characters for Ji. I'd suggest sticking with one for the entire time for sake of consistency, or using both. Although the most historical option would be using the characters used at that time period, which means using traditional up and to the point simplified was created, although simplified borrowed from past or regional ways of writing characters. Yeah, the whole all the dialects/languages share the same written form is mostly true today, and it was in the past, but not always.
Recife, an important Brazilian city was named as Maurisstad during the dutch colonization of northeastern Brazil
Kazakhstan’s capital has changed names a few times in the past 50 years. So some people can tell you they were born in Akmolisky Priaz, raised in Tselingrad, studied in Akmola, worked in Astana and currently reside in Nur-Sultan. All without moving out of the city, and most of the name changes happened in the past 30 years. Being the current name quite a controversial one, I wouldn’t be surprised if they revert back to Astana or choose a new name altogether.
For clarity to anyone who may be confused. Madras being changed to Chennai does not follow the same logic as the name changes in Mumbai and Kolkata, as you can imagine, Madras was the name of the original European settlement near the city which eventually expanded annexing the ancient metropolis known as Kancheepuram. The British called it Madras bc initially they only had the port of Madarasanpattinam and the immediate surrounding area. The name "Chennai" is actually taken from the name of the feudal lord who sold the city and is not a Tamil translation of Madras the way Mumbai is a Marathi translation of the name Bombay
You should do a video on modern cities that rose again later in the same places where ancient cities once stood, like Baghdad, Patna, and Mexico City.
This is interestingly the case in many occasions, Tunis - Carthage, Persepolis - Shiraz, Chang'an - Xi'an, Memphis/Heliopolis - Cairo, and an enormous number of cities in Levant like Damasq, Aleppo or Beirut, even the city where I live with 250000 inhabitants is situated on the site of Tripilia-Cucuteni culture that was inhabited by estimatadely 20000 in it's time. Sounds like people tend to live in some areas
My favourite prominent city that changed it's name is Rijeka in Croatia, formerly known as "Fiume". I believe the city was the second most important port city next to Trieste (after Italian unification, that is) in Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Croatia also has Lausa-Ragusa- Dubrovnik
Fiume is that a red flood reference!!!!!
Funny to discover that "Istambul" in tts diferent varieties was used in many western laguages centuries before being officially adopted to describe the contemporary city, while same languages used Costantibopla in historical text
I'm from Belgium here. Not many cities have changed names in my country and the few places that did have more to do with linguistics than politics. For example, Brussels was once founded as Broekzele. Broek meaning swamp and Zele a villa. Litterally a villa on the swamp. Later French-speaking bourgeoisie pronounced the city as Bruxelles and the name has stuck ever since.
You can make a series out of this and do it by region. You can do one on former Roman cities and where they are now, Russian, American, Non-Russian Slavic cities, Persian empire cities, Aztec and Mayan, Germanic, etc. You can be as specific or general you want to be and you’ll still have a lot of material to work with.
Interesting thing about the 3 cities you mentioned in India, the 3 high courts situated in them still have their Anglicised names, as in Bombay, Calcutta, and Madras, because they never bothered to change it.
I'm from Chennai and I can attest to that.
Was someone hammering wood in the background?
small South American example: the city Buenos Aires was originally named San Nicolás, while its port was called Buenos Ayres, based on an iberian marian apparition. The port became so important to the city, that the city took the name, and San Nicolás is now a central neighbourhood.
Edo(江戸) > Tōkyō(東京)
Heiankyō(平安京) > Kyōto(京都)
“Istanbul” will always be Constantinople in my heart
All those name changes it must have been Hell for the postal services. 😁🤣
Great video master !
Jakarta has a lot of name changes too. From Sunda Kelapa, to Jayakarta (in Banten Sultanate), to Batavia (in Dutch Colony), to Jakarta (since Japan Occupation to present)
I love the way he pronounced Salisbury.
Constantinople, formerly known as Byzantium.
Byzantium became the region, Constantinople became the city.
It would be confusing if the city, the region, and the nation had the same name
Byzantium - Nova Roma - Constantinople - Istanbul.
A Beijinger here. Yeah, here in China we have cities, especially the more historically peripheral or less important cities, change their names very often. Although the more major cities at the time (Such as Xi’an, which was known as Chang’an, and Luoyang) usually didn’t change their names due to their importance, other cities such as Beijing, Nanjing, Kaifeng et cetera often changed their names depending on their level of significance at the time.
Also as many has pointed out in the comment section, the Pinyin system is only official for English, as it is designed to mostly fit English. Thus, languages such as but not limited to French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian still uses variations of “Peking”
Suggestions for other cities like this if you make another part to this series
St.Petersburg
Toronto
Ottawa
(Yeah I’m canadian lol but those are someplaces I know that have had changes to their name)
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Thousands of years old city bhera in Pakistan.
3:06 all the Indian high courts have retained their pre-change names. Its still bombay high court, madras high court etc
Just to give credit:
7:47 the map inside the video shown is from Thomas Lessman, one can see the larger map at www.worldhistorymaps.info/images/East-Hem_1200ad.jpg.
Thomas made historical maps before mapping became popular on the internet - you can see some of his that made it into the early Wikipedia.
W(h)anganui in New Zealand is a classy example of a name correction: Until a few years ago it was officially *Wanganui* (pronounced Wonganuee) and called as such by most people, but after some lobbying by the local iwi they changed to its more accurate name of *Whanganui* (pronounced Fonganuee).
*This* led to a backlash by the half of the town who saw the change as pointless and arbitrary, so the council gave up and made *both* variants official, leaving it to the preference of the person.
Of course, when the actual town was founded by the British they called it Petre after a leading colonist, but the name only stuck for a couple of decades.
I like the addition of music. It makes your videos more full.
Isn't Barrow Alaska where 30 days of night took place?
We all know that Istanbul was once Constantinople.
And everyone knows about that.
So what's the big think to write this comment?
But why did Constantinople get the works?
What a shocker!
Seattle was once almost called New New York, and this was long before Futurama
Can you please explain to this one guy how my ww1 video is not a rip off of yours?
Nice video. Greetings from NEW AMSTERDAM :P
You've missed so many cities in Russia. Of course, most of name changing had to do with communism - Gorkiy, Kirov, Sverdlovsk, Stalingrad. But some are more interisting than just that - Kaliningrad used to be in East Prussia and called Konigsberg. Saint Petersburg originally didn't have "Saint" in it. In 1914 it was renamed to Petrograd which is kust a result of rusification (after a few anti-german pogroms happened in the city).
If you ever make another video on this topic make sure to include those and many cities from other former Soviet Union countries- Donetsk, Bishkek, Khujand etc.
Beijing: This isn’t even my final form
Great video! I just wanted to point out that "η" would make the sound "ae" in the ancient pronunciation, not "i" or "ee".
Correction, NOT ALL languages spoken in China are in the same language family. The majority of them are, but languages like Uyghur and Mongolian as well as language spoken in southern China such as Miao and Zhuang are in different language families and are far more different than just a Spanish-French comparison.
Love how he Holds Back Laughter at 3:20
In Norway we have:
Oslo --> Christiania --> Kristiania --> Oslo
Bjørgvin --> Bergen
Nidaros --> Trondhjem --> Trondheim
Fredrikshald --> Halden
Salisbury is pronounced sall (rhymes with stall)z- buh-ree (rhymes with Marie from breaking bad)
"Ah, you may know it as Myanmar, but it'll always be Burma to me!" - J. Peterman
Here’s the obligatory *Istanbul was Constantinople. Now it’s Istanbul not Constantinople. Been a long time gone, Constantinople*
Even old New York was once new Amsterdam, why they change it I can't say, people like it better that wayyyyy
apple's lover because it was controlled by the Dutch then the english
@@novacentorium4943 it's the lyrics to the song. You have committed a not funny, please leave
@@appleslover well before New Amsterdam it was called Manna Hata (Manhattan's old name)
Tiago Borges lol what an edgy name
For a really long portion of my life I thought that Pekin and Beijing are two completely different cities. Only few years ago I learned, that what we call Pekin, anglos call Beijing
Your OST be vibing
The Pretoria Metropolitan area was renamed to Tshwane, winch is the native name of a river in the area. The word is Sepedi which is the majority black language in the area. But the old city of Pretoria proper remains mostly white and Afrikaans so it is still known as Pretoria (Named after a famous Boer leader with the surname Pretorius). The entire thing is a bit disputed. Oh and the city centre has so many Nigerians some call it Lagos for giggles.
And nothing about Jerusalem, which was called 'Aelis Capitolina' by the Roman Empire after 132 and 'Al-Quds' (means The Holy City) by the Arabs.
This comment section will be another fight between Turks and other nations lmao
Not funny
Hilarious
This channel is awesome much deserving than other channels
fun fact: the high court of kolkata is still called calcutta high court
City of Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island in Canada is now Iqaluit.
3:24 I'm gonna keep calling it "Barrow" because that other name is too frustrating to pronounce.
Reval -> Tallinn, Danzig -> Gdansk, Mustasaari -> Wasa -> Nikolaistad -> Vaasa
Well, Danzig is still what Germans call it, while Gdansk is what Poles call it. Similarly, Chelmno is Chelm in German, or Wroclaw being Breslau. A lot of name changes just come because a different language becomes official in that city. For example, Selanik under the Ottomans became Thessonaliki when Greece got it. That's different from a name change in where the language adopts a new name, like how Constantinople becomes Istanbul.
Kitchener, Ontario used to be called Berlin until WWI
Gatineau, Quebec (right next to Ottawa, On) used to be Hull
Well, Hull merged with Aylmer to become Gatineau.
I have a small story. There is the town Kleinschmalkalden in Germany. After the war it was named Pappenheim. Pappenheim was a socialist murdered by the nazis and after the war his son became a local politician. He originaly wanted to rename Schmalkalden after his father (and himself) but all he got was Kleinschmalkalden which means little Schmalkalden.
A few nits to pick regarding the Beijing part:
1. The use of simplified and traditional characters is inconsistent, for example 蓟 (simplified) / 薊 (traditional).
2. Concerning the pronunciation, the phoneme transcribed with "b" in Pinyin (and as ㄅ in Taiwan's bopomofo system) is indeed correctly represented as /p/ in IPA (an unvoiced bilabial stop), but as a non-aspirated sound (i.e., /p/ instead of /pʰ/). As pronounced in the video, it sounds closer to an aspirated /pʰ/, which Mandarin speakers would regard as "p" in Pinyin (and as ㄆ in Taiwan's bopomofo). For English speakers, the closer approximation would indeed be the sound represented by the letter "b", simply because of the aspirated/non-aspirated distinction. But this is the reason why older Wade-Giles transliterations often use "p" where modern-day Pinyin uses "b": Wade-Giles describes the sound more as a bilabial stop, whereas Pinyin stresses more that the sound is not aspirated.
I think we can excuse English speakers for aspirating unvoiced plosives. Nonetheless, I appreciate the phonetic nitpicking. :)
Needs part 2. E.g. there is Norway's capital Oslo - former Christiania/Kristiania. Or Kaliningrad - former Konigsberg
What about Tiflis to Tbilisi? Or Akmoly to Akmolinsk to Tselinograd to Akmola to Astana to Nur-Sultan? Or Tsaritsyn to Stalingrad to Volgograd?
Batavia / Jakarta?
Fun fact, Eugene, OR still has Skinner’s Butte. So Skinner didn’t get completely ripped off.
Old New York was once New Amsterdam
Well in Ottoman times in Balkans,cities' names were a lot different. Examples = Alexsandroupli-Dedeağaç,Silistre-Deliorman,Montana (Bulgarian one)-Kutlu Viçe etc but yeah,those cities' arent really famous so idk why i wrote that
There was a town in Rhode Island that was named after the river it was on called Pawtuxet. When it became a city in 1910, it was voted to named after Thomas Cranston, who was a representative at the time. Thus it is now called Cranston.
Some actual polish, russian and lithuanian cities like Gdansk, Kaliningrad or Klaipėda were german cities with other names, you can also name those
The cities of the region originally had Prussian-Lithuanian names before the German crusaders genocided the region
Klaipeda was Memel; Gdansk was Danzig; Kaliningrad was Konigsberg.
@@user-zq8hd2bk5l actually it was proven that people that used to live east from germany werent germanic people but they were probably related more to balts(like lithuanians)
@@user-zq8hd2bk5l What the hell are you smoking? Poles not native? In that case, French and British aren't as well.
Where are the Celtic Gauls and Britons? Long gone, conquered by others.
Why, while the Brits have no problem with their ancestors being conquered by the Romans, Angles, Normans, people come up with the narrative of "migrant, not native Slavs/Poles?
Why can't Poles claim that Goths and Vandals were their ancestors? Surely not EVERY ONE of them left? Similairly, not every British is a descendant of Britons, or Angles, but it's a mix of both.
Yet Poles are "foreigners, occupying rightful German land".
The predominant view is that Istanbul derives from the Greek "εις τήν πόλιν" based on the pattern of renaming other Byzantine cities into Turkish: Iznik (from "εις Νίκαιαν" for the Byzantine city of Nicaea), Izmir (from "εις Σμύρνην" for Smyrna), Isparta (from "εις Σπάρτην" for Sparta - not the one in the Peloponese but their colony in Anatolia - named after the mother-city), Izmit (from "εις Μήδειαν" from the colloquial name of Byzantine Nicomedia, Media)
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Now it's Turkish delight on a moonlit night
Every gal in Constantinople
Lives in Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you've a date in Constantinople
She'll be waiting in Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
So, Take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul
Istanbul
Even old New York was once New Amsterdam
Why they changed it I can't say
People just liked it better that way
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
So, Take me back to Constantinople
No, you can't go back to Constantinople
Been a long time gone, Oh Constantinople
Why did Constantinople get the works?
That's nobody's business but the Turks
Istanbul
Another good example is Tsarytsin-Stalingrad-Volgograd
You scipt over "Nova Roma" = "New Rome" as Contantine's name of choice for his city. But I guess the citisens of that city agreed with you, to forget about that name as soon as possible. ;)
I think that was just informal and wasn't the official name at any point. Not 100% sure though.
Yup I was thinking about Istanbul
Fun fact the airport code for Beijing is PEK as in Peking
Istanbul was also called Carigrad by Slavs in the past.
Tsargrad = the emperor's city
Also Miklagardr
Mikligarður is modern Icelandic.
You missed several from Russia like Volgograd and St. Petersburg. Another good one is Saigon which was renamed Ho Chi Minh
What about Adrianople --> Edirne
Its still adrianople I think in english
Make Istanbul Κωνσταντινούπολις again.
No
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Name change of Jakarta
1.Sunda kelapa(Pajajaran rule)
2. Jayakarta(Demak rule)
3. Stad Batavia(During Dutch Occupation, 1621- March 1905)
4. Geemente Batavia(During Dutch Occupation, April 1905-December 1934)
5. Stad Geemente Batavia(During Dutch Occupation, 1935-1942)
6. Betshu shi(During Japanese Occupation, 1942-1945)
7. Jakarta(Republic of indonesia, 1945-1949)
8. Stad Geemente Batavia (during the Republik Indonesia serikat/United state of Indonesia 1949-150)
9. Praja Jakarta(Republic of Indonesia 1950-1961)
10. Jakarta raya(1961-1964)
11. Jakarta(1964-1999)
12. DKI Jakarta(1999-now)