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  2. List of city name changes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of cities and towns whose names were officially changed at one or more points in history. It does not include gradual changes in spelling that took place over long periods of time. see also: Geographical renaming, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States

  3. List of renamed places in the United States - Wikipedia

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    These are the list of renamed places in the United States--- various political and physical entities in the U.S. that have had their names changed, though not by merger, split, or any other process which was not one-to-one. It also generally does not include differences due to a change in status, for example, a "River Bluff Recreation Area ...

  4. Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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    The name change was due to the unflattering meaning of the original toponym (something like "Little dirty one"). Astana, Kazakhstan – renamed Nur-Sultan from 2019 to 2022. Kazakhstan's legislature passed a law on 20 March 2019 to rename the Central Asian nation's capital city from Astana to Nur-Sultan.

  5. How do places get their names? Here are the origins of 22 ...

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    In 1920, the borough's name was changed to Oradell based on the results of a referendum, and the change was credited to the borough's second mayor, Daniel Demarest.

  6. 30 Pics Of Cities In The Past And The Present, As ... - AOL

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    This is true for cities across the world, with the changes getting more and more prominent as time goes by. This Facebook page is dedicated to interesting before and after photos of cities and we ...

  7. List of politically motivated renamings - Wikipedia

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    List of name changes due to the George Floyd protests, mainly names considered to honor people with allegedly racist views, or which are racially offensive. 2025 Presidential executive order Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness , changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and changing the name of Denali back to ...

  8. Rural towns push to divorce from big cities, form new ... - AOL

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    Following the Nov. 5 election, Newsom visited California's red counties, where he told voters: "Message received." "I don’t care who you voted for.

  9. Category:City name changes - Wikipedia

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    Lists of renamed cities (17 P) Pages in category "City name changes" The following 23 pages are in this category, out of 23 total.