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  2. Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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    Geographical renaming is the changing of the name of a geographical feature or area, which ranges from the change of a street name to a change to the name of a country.

  3. Wikipedia:Naming conventions (geographic names) - Wikipedia

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    Wikipedia articles must have a single title, by the design of the system; this page is intended to help editors agree on which name of a place is to appear as the title. Nevertheless, other names, especially those used significantly often (say, 10% of the time or more) in the available English literature on a place, past or present, should be ...

  4. List of geographical naming disputes - Wikipedia

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    Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "List of geographical naming disputes" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR ( March 2023 ) ( Learn how and when to remove this message )

  5. Lists of renamed places - Wikipedia

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    Renaming of cities in India Iran — List of renamed cities in Iran Kazakhstan — List of renamed cities in Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan — List of renamed cities in Kyrgyzstan Myanmar — List of renamed places in Myanmar Pakistan — List of renamed places in Pakistan Philippines. List of renamed cities and municipalities in the Philippines

  6. Category:Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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  7. List of renamed places in Romania - Wikipedia

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    This list enumerates the changes made from 1921 onwards. Not included are the names of localities in the Banat, in Transylvania, and in Bukovina that were changed from Hungarian and/or German to Romanian immediately after World War I, the names of localities in Northern Transylvania that were changed back to Hungarian from 1940 to 1944, and those of localities in Greater Romania that today no ...

  8. Geographical name changes in Greece - Wikipedia

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    Map of Greece. The Greek state has systematically pursued a policy of Hellenisation following its independence from the Ottoman Empire in the early 1830s. [1] [2] This ideology included replacing all geographical and topographic names with revived names rooted in Classical Greece – that is, any name deemed foreign, divisive against Greek unity, or considered to be "bad Greek" was hidden or ...

  9. List of renamed places in Zimbabwe - Wikipedia

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    Since Zimbabwean independence in 1980, the names of cities, towns, streets and other places have been changed by the government, most prominently in a burst of renaming in 1982. The Zimbabwean government began renaming cities, towns, streets and other places in 1982, hoping to remove vestiges of British and Rhodesian rule.