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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.
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 ...
Pages in category "Geographical renaming" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Disputes involving the name of a whole entity being used to refer to a part of it (totum pro parte), and vice versa (pars pro toto) American for the United States/Americas/North America: The terms 'America' and 'American' are frequently used to refer only to the United States and its people.
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
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.
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 ...
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 ...