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Revision as of 03:38, 12 July 2011
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 and Names of European cities in different languages.
Afghanistan
- Bactra → Balkh
Algeria
- Ikosium → Icosium → Algiers
- Géryville → El Bayadh
- Cirta → Constantine
- Hippo Regius → Bône → Annaba
- Rusicade → Philippeville → Skikda
- Castellum Tingitanum → Orléansville → El Asnam → Chlef
- Malaca → Calama → Guelma
- Colomb-Béchar → Béchar
- Saint André de Mers-el-Kébir → Mers-el-Kébir
- Saldae → Bougie → Béjaïa
- Fort Laperrine → Tamanrasset
Angola
- Amboim → Cabela → Gabela
- Benguella → Benguela (1975)
- Cabinda → Tchiowa (proposed)
- Carmona → Uíge (1975)
- Concelho → Caconda (1975)
- Henrique de Carvalho → Saurimo (1975)
- Huambo → Nova Lisboa → Huambo (1975)
- Loanda → Luanda (1975)
- Moçâmedes → Namibe (1985)
- Novo Redondo → Sumbe (1975)
- Kissonde → Benguela → Benguela Velha → Porto Amboim (1923) → Gunza/Porto Gabela (proposed)
- Porto Alexandre → Tombwe/Tombua
- Robert Williams town/Vila Robert Williams → Caála (1975)
- Sá da Bandeira → Lubango
- São Salvador → M'banza-Kongo (1975)
- Santa Comba → Waku-Kungo (1975)
- Santo António do Zaire → Soyo
- Serpa Pinto → Menongue (1975)
- Silva Porto → Kuito/Cuito (1975)
- Teixeira da Silva → Bailundo/Bailunda
- Teixeira de Sousa → Luau (1975)
- Vila Luso → Luena (1975)
- Vila Salazar → N'dalatando (1975)
Argentina
- La Plata → Ciudad Eva Perón → La Plata
Armenia
See List of renamed cities in Armenia
- Akhta → Hrazdan
- Alagyoz → Tsakhkahovit → Aragats (1950)
- Artashat → Verin Ghamarlu → Artashat (1945)
- Basarkechar → Vardenis (1945)
- Dadakishlag → Akhundov → Punik
- Davalou → Ararat (1935)
- Dyuzkand → Akhuryan (1950)
- Geryusi → Goris (1924)
- Hamamlou → Spitak (1948)
- İravan → Yerevan
- Jalaloghlou → Stepanavan (1930)
- Kafan → Kapan (1990)
- Karaklis → Kirovakan (1935) → Vanadzor (1993)
- Krasnoselsk → Chambarak (1993)
- Kumayri → Alexandropol (1840) → Gümrü → Leninakan (1924) → Gyumri (1990)
- Kyavar → Novo-Bayazet/Nor Bayazet (1830) → Kamo (1959) → Gavar (1996)
- Lusavan → Charentsavan (1967)
- Nerkin Karanlough → Martuni (1926)
- Sardarabad/Sardarapat → Hoktemberyan (1932) → Armavir (1992)
- Soylan → Azizbekov (1956) → Vayk (1994)
- Nubarashen → Sovetashen → Nubarashen
- Uloukhanlou → Narimanlou → Zangibasar → Razdan → Masis
- Vagharshapat → Echmiadzin (1941)
- Vorontsovka → Kalinino (1937) → Tashir (1991)
Australia
- Sturt → Alice Springs (NT)
- Ballaarat → Ballarat (VIC)
- Mayday Hills → Beechworth (NSW)
- Bendigo's Creek → Sandhurst → Bendigo (VIC)
- Emu Bay → Burnie (TAS)
- Blackman's Flat → Orange (NSW)
- Port Darwin → Palmerston → Darwin (NT)
- Germanton → Holbrook (NSW)
- Limestone StaTion → Ipswich (QLD)
- Bearbrass → Melbourne (VIC)
- Mobilong → Murray Bridge (SA)
- Currajong → Parkes (NSW)
- Belfast → Port Fairy (TAS)
- Flooding Creek → Sale (VIC)
- McGuire's Punt → Sheppardtown → Shepparton (VIC)
- Hummock Hill → Whyalla (SA)
- Dumbletown → Beverly Hills (NSW)
Azerbaijan
See List of renamed cities in Azerbaijan
- Mardakert → Ağdərə (1991, change not recognized by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic which controls this city)
- Aşağı Ağcakənd → Şaumyanovsk (1938) → Aşağı Ağcakənd (1990)
- Astraxan-Bazar → Cəlilabad (1967)
- Beyləqan → Zhdanov (1939) → Beyləqan (1991)
- Biləsuvar → Puşkino (1938) → Biləsuvar (1991)
- Dəvəçi → Şabran (2010)
- Duvannı → Sanqaçal
- Gəncə → Elisabethpol (1805) → Gəncə (1918) → Kirovabad (1935) → Gəncə (1989)
- Goranboy → Qasım-İsmayılov (1938) → Goranboy (1990)
- Helenendorf → Yelenino → Xanlar (1938) → Göygöl (2008)
- Karyagino → Füzuli (1959)
- Xonaşen → Martuni → Xocavənd (1991, change not recognized by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic which controls this city)
- Noraşen → İliç[evsk] → Şərur (1991)
- Petropavlovka → Petropavlovsk → Sabirabad (1931)
- Port-Ilich → Liman (1999)
- Prishib → Göytəpə
- Qutqaşen → Qəbələ (1991)
- Şəki → Nuxa (1840) → Şəki (1968)
- Şəmkir → Şamxor → Şəmkir (1991)
- Tərtər → Mir-Bəşir (1949) → Tərtər (1991)
- Traubenfeld → Vinogradnoe Pole → Tovuz
- Vartaşen → Oğuz (1991)
- Xankəndi → Stepanakert (1923) → Xankəndi (1991, change not recognized by the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic which controls this city)
- Yelizavetinka → Lüksemburq → Ağstafa (1939)
- Yeni Şamaxı → Ağsu
- Zubovka → Əli-Bayramlı (1938) → Şirvan (2008)
- Pirçivan → Zəngilan (1957)
Bangladesh
- Jahangir Nagar → Dacca → Dhaka
- Chittagong → Chotogram
Belarus
See List of renamed cities in Belarus
- Mien'sk (Мѣньскъ) (historical ruthenian name) → Mińsk Litewski (polish name) → Minsk (Минск) (Russian name since 19th century as transcribed from Polish) → Minsk (Мінск)/Miensk (Менск) (informal)
- Berestie (Берестье) (historical ruthenian name) → Brześć Litewski (polish name) → Brest-Litovsk (Брест-Литовск) (Russian name since 19th century as transcribed from Polish*) → Brest (Брест) (*) → Brest (Брэст)/Bierascie (Берасце) (informal)
- Horodno (Городно) (historical ruthenian name) → Grodno (polish name) → Grodno (Гродно) (Russian name since 19th century as transcribed from Polish) → Hrodna (Гродна)/Harodnia (Гародня) (informal)
- Novohorodok (Новогородокъ) (historical ruthenian name) → Nowogródek (polish name) → Novogrudok (Новогрудок) (Russian name since 19th century as transcribed from Polish) → Navahrudak (Навагрудак)/Navaharodak (Навагародак) (informal)/Navahradak (Наваградак) (informal)
- Mery, Myory (Меры) (historical ruthenian name) → Miory (polish name) → Miory (Миоры) (Russian name since 19th century as transcribed from Polish) → Mijory (Міёры)/Miory (Мёры) (informal)
Belgium
- Aduatuca → Tongeren
- Cortoriacum → Kortrijk (Courtrai)
- Gandava → Ghent
- Orolaunum → Arlon
- Turnacum Nerviorum → Tournai
Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Bosanska Gradiška → Gradiška → Bosanska Gradiška
- Drvar → Titov Drvar (1981) → Drvar (1991)
- Hvoča → Foča → Srbinje → Foča
Brazil
- Adolfo Konder → Vidal Ramos
- Hamônia → Ibirama
- Hansa Humboldt → Corupá
- Jabaeté → Viana
- Neu-Zürich → Dalbérgia → Neu Breslau → Presidente Getúlio
- Nossa Senhora do Desterro → Florianópolis
- Nova Danzig → Cambé
- Paraíba → João Pessoa
- Porto Acre → Xapuri
- Porto dos Casais → Porto Alegre
- São José da Barra do Rio Negro → Manaus
- São José del Rey → Tiradentes
- Veado → Siqueira Campos → Guaçuí
- Vila do Espírito Santo → Vila Velha
- Vila Nova do Espírito Santo → Vitória
- Vila Rica → Ouro Preto
Brunei
- Brunei Town (Bandar Brunei) → Bandar Seri Begawan (1970)
- Brooketon → Muara
- Padang Berawa → Seria
Bulgaria
- Agatopolis → Ahtabolu → Ahtopol
- Ratiaria → Archar
- Scaptopara → Cuma-i Bala (Yukarı Cuma) → Gorna Dzhumaya → Blagoevgrad
- Orhanie → Botevgrad
- Scaphida → Pyrgos → Burgaz → Burgas
- Hadzhioglu Pazardzhik → Tolbuhin → Dobrich
- Diranava → Dryanovo
- Dupniche → Marek → Stanke Dimitrov → Dupnitsa
- Nevrokop → Gotse Delchev
- Ortaköy → Ivailovgrad
- Pautalia → Velbazhd → Köstendil → Kyustendil
- Golyama Kutlovitsa → Kutlofça → Ferdinand → Mihailovgrad → Montana
- Mesembria → Misivri→ Nesebar
- Tatar Pazardzhik → Pazardzhik
- Plevne → Pleven
- Kendros (Kendrisos/Kendrisia) → Odryssa → Eumolpia → Philipopolis → Trimontium → Ulpia → Flavia → Julia → Paldin/Ploudin → Poulpoudeva → Filibe → Plovdiv
- Ruschuk (Rusčuk) → Rousse
- Kolarovgrad → Şumnu → Shumen
- Durostorum → Dorostol → Drastar → Silistre → Silistra
- Bashmakli → Ahiçelebi → Smolyan
- Serdica → Sredets → Triaditsa → Sofya →Sofia
- Apolonia → Sozopolis → Süzebolu→ Sozopol
- Beroe → Vereya (Beroya) → Ulpia Augusta Trajana → Irinopolis → Boruy → Vereya → Eski Zağra → Zheleznik → Stara Zagora
- Eski Dzhumaia (Eski Cuma) → Targovishte
- Vassiliko → Tsarevo → Michurin → Tsarevo
- Odesos → Varna → Stalin → Varna
- Tarnovgrad → Tarnovo → Tırnova → Tarnovo → Veliko Tarnovo
- Bononia → Bdin → Vidin
- Vratitsa → Ivraca→ Vratsa
Canada
British Columbia
- Fort George → Prince George
- Fort Camosun → Fort Victoria → Victoria
- Westbank → West Kelowna
- Wu'muthkweyum → Vancouver
- ch’átlich → Sechelt
Manitoba
- Prince of Wales Fort → Churchill
New Brunswick
- Fort LaTour → Saint John
- Léger Corner → Dieppe
- Ste. Anne's Point → Fredericton
- Frobisher Bay → Iqaluit
Ontario
- Bytown → Ottawa
- Ebytown → Berlin → Kitchener (see Berlin to Kitchener name change)
- Fort Frontenac → Kingston
- Newark → Niagara-on-the-Lake
- New Johnstown → Cornwall
- Rat Portage → Kenora
- Sainte-Anne-des-Pins → Sudbury → Greater Sudbury
- Shipman's Corners → St. Catharines
- Fort Rouillé → Toronto → York → Toronto
- Aqueduct → Merritsville → Welland
Prince Edward Island
- Port la Joie → Charlottetown
Québec
- Hochelaga → Ville-Marie → Mont-Royal → Montreal
- Stadacona → Québec City
Saskatchewan
- Pile o' Bones → Regina
Chad
- Faya → Largeau → Faya-Largeau → Faya (proposed)
- Fort Archambault → Sarh
- Fort-Foureau → Kousséri
- Fort Lamy → N'Djamena
People's Republic of China
- Amoy† → Hsia-men → Xiamen
- Ji → Yanjing → Zhongdu → Dadu → Jingshi → Khanbalik (as Mongol capital) → Peking † → Peiping → Beijing
- Canton† → Guangzhou
- Chang'an → Xi'an
- Chinchow† → Jinzhou
- Chungking† → Chongqing
- Jinling → Nanking† → Nanjing
- Kirin† → Jilin
- Bianliang → Bianjing → Kaifeng
- Lin'an → Hangchow† → Hangzhou
- Soochow† - Suzhou
- Yinxu → Anyang
- Tan-tung† → Andong → Dandong
- Tientsin† → Tianjin
- Shenyang → Shengjing → Fengtianfu → Mukden → Fengtian → Shenyang
- Ch'ing-ni-wa† → Lüshunkou (aka Port Arthur) → Dalnyi → Dairen; Ryojun → Luda → Dalian
- Swatow† → Shan-t'ou → Shantou
- Tsinan† → Chi-nan → Jinan
†Name change in English due to replacement of outdated romanization methods such as the Chinese Postal Map Romanization method with the Pinyin method. Chinese name unchanged.
Colombia
- Bacatá → Santa Fe de Bacatá → Bogotá → Santa Fe de Bogotá → Bogotá
- Obando → Puerto Inírida → Inirida
- Patriarca San José → Cúcuta → San José de Cucúta → Cúcuta
- Valle de Upar → Ciudad de los Santos Reyes de Valledupar → Valle Dupar → Valledupar
- Nuestra Señora Santa María de los Remedios del Cabo de la Vela → Nuestra Señora de los Remedios del Río de la Hacha → Riohacha
- Barbudo → Santiago de Sompayón → Tamalameque → Santiago de Sompayón Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria de El Banco → El Banco
- San Jerónimo de Buenavista → Pereira
- Apiay → Villavicencio
- Pueblo Viejo →San Francisco de Quibdó → Quibdó
- San Bonifacio de Ibagué del valle de las Lanzas → Ibagué
- San Antonio → Leticia
- Santa Cruz de Pizarro → Santa Cruz de San José → Sitionuevo → Sitio Nuevo
- Villa Holguín→ Armenia
Democratic Republic of the Congo
A number of places became cities under a Belgian colonial name, or rather two: in Dutch and French (the Belgian official languages), but were later renamed, such as:
- Albertstad = Albertville → Kalemie
- Coquilhatstad = Coquihatville → Mbandaka
- Costermansstad = Costermansville → Bukavu
- Elisabethstad = Elisabethville → Lubumbashi
- Jadotstad = Jadotville → Likasi
- Leopoldstad = Léopoldville → Kinshasa
- Port Franqui → Ilebo
- Stanleystad = Stanleyville → Kisangani
Croatia
- Agram, Zagrab → Zagreb
- Pinguente → Buzet
- Iader → Jadera → Zara → Zadar
- Albona → Labin
- Mursa → Essegg, Eszék → Osijek
- Cittanova → Novigrad
- Parenzo → Poreč
- Pola → Pula
- Ragusa → Dubrovnik
- Rovigno → Rovinj
- Sankt Veit am Fluß → Fiume → Rijeka
- Spalatum → Spalato → Spljet → Split
- Dignano → Vodnjan
- Laurana → Lovran
- Cirquenizza → Crikvenica
- Segnia → Senj
- Lussinpiccolo → Mali Lošinj
- Zaravecchia → Biograd na Moru
- Sebenico → Šibenik
- Porto Re → Kraljevica
- Pisino → Pazin
- Lesina → Hvar
- Curzola → Korčula
- Cherso → Cres
- Abbazia → Opatija
- Castelli → Kaštela
- Castua → Kastav
- Comiza → Komiža
- Pagu → Pag
- Nona → Nin
- Buccari → Bakar
- Vodizze → Vodice
Czech Republic
- Cukmantl (Zuckmantel) → Zlaté Hory
- Falknov (Falkenau) → Sokolov
- Frývaldov (Freiwaldau) → Jeseník
- Německý Brod (Deutsch Brod) → Havlíčkův Brod
- Německé Jablonné (Deutsch Gabel) → Jablonné v Podještědí
- Unterwielands (Cmunt) → České Velenice → Gmünd-Bahnhof (Gmünd III) → České Velenice
- Zlín (Zlin) → Gottwaldov → Zlín
- Budweis → České Budějovice
- Pilsen → Plzeň
- Karlsbad → Karlovy Vary
- Reichenberg → Liberec
Denmark
- Århus → Aarhus (2011)
Dominican Republic
- Santo Domingo → Ciudad Trujillo (1936–1961) → Santo Domingo
Egypt
Many cities had Ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Latin names
Equatorial Guinea
- Port Clarence → Santa Isabel → Malabo
Estonia
See List of renamed cities in Estonia
- Kuressaare → Kingissepa (1952) → Kuressaare (1988)
- Reval/Revel → Tallinna (1918) → Tallinn (early 1920s)
- Dorpat/Derpt → Jurjev (1893) → Tartu (1918)
Finland
- Mustasaari/Mussor → Wasa → Nikolaistad/Nikolainkaupunki → Vasa/Vaasa
France
Most cities had an ancient name, usually in Latin, often of older Celtic origin
- Agedincum → Sens
- Aginnum → Agen
- Andemantunum → Langres
- Antipolis → Antibes
- Aquae Sextiae → Aix-en-Provence
- Arausio → Orange
- Arelate → Arles
- Argentoratum → Strassburg → Strasbourg
- Augustobona → Troyes
- Augustodunum → Autun
- Augustodurum → Bayeux
- Augustonemetum → Clermont-Ferrand
- Autessiodurum → Auxerre
- Autricum → Carnotum → Chartres
- Avaricum → Bourges
- Avennio → Avignon
- Bagacum → Bavai
- Burdigala → Bordeaux
- Caesarodunum → Tours
- Carcaso → Carcassonne
- Cenabum → Cenabum Aureliani → Aurelianum → Orléans
- Cularo → Gratianopolis → Grenoble
- Divodurum → Metz
- Divona → Cahors
- Durocortorum → Reims
- Elimberris → Auch
- Forum Iulii → Fréjus
- Gesocribate → Brest
- Gesoriacum → Bononia → Bonen (aan zee)/ Boulogne-sur-Mer
- Iluro → Oléron
- Iuliomagus → Angers
- Lapurdum → Bayonne
- Limonum → Poitiers
- Lugdunum → Lyon
- Lutetia → Paris
- Massilia → Marseille
- Matisco → Mâcon
- Mediolanium → Saintes
- Mediolanum Aulercorum → Évreux
- Metis → Metz
- Narbo Martius → Narbonne
- Nemausus → Nîmes
- Nemetacum → Arras
- Noviodunum Aeduorum → Nevirnum → Nevers
- Portus Namnetum → Nantes
- Rotomagus → Rouen
- Samarobriva → Amiens
- Segodunum → Rodez
- Senones → Sens
- Strasburg → Strasbourg
- Tolosa → Toulouse
- Valentia → Valence, Drôme
- Vesontio → Besançon
- Vienna → Vienne
- Wissemburg → Wissembourg
Gambia
- Bathurst → Banjul (1973)
- Georgetown → Janjanbureh
Germany
- see also List of cities and towns in East Prussia for towns now in Poland, Russia or Lithuania
- Aquisgranum → Aix La Chapelle → Aachen
- Arckenow → Erkenau → Erkener → Erkner
- Augusta Treverorum → Trier
- Augusta Vindelicorum → Augsburg
- Aurelia Aquensi → Baden-Baden
- Barmen-Elberfeld → Wuppertal
- Batavis → Passau
- Bona → Bonn
- Bötzow → Oranienburg
- Bremerhaven → Wesermünde → Bremerhaven
- Buchhorn → Friedrichshafen
- Castellum apud Confluentes → Koblenz
- Castra Regina → Regensburg
- Chemnitz → Karl-Marx-Stadt → Chemnitz
- Colonia Claudia Ara Agrippinensium → Cologne (Köln)
- Colonia Nemetum → Speyer
- Constantia → Konstanz
- Everswolde → Neustadt-Eberswalde → Eberswalde-Finow
- Fürstenberg (Oder) → Stalinstadt → Eisenhüttenstadt
- Klenow → Ludwigslust
- Lietzow → Lietzenburg → Charlottenburg
- Liubice → Lübeck
- Lochau → Annaburg
- Moguntiacum → Mainz→ Mayence → Mainz
- Neustadt → Dorotheenstadt (in 1710 incorporated into Berlin)
- Rixdorf → Neukölln
- Sarre-Louis → Sarre-Libre → Saarlouis → Saarlautern → Saarlouis
- Syburg → Carlshaven → Bad Karlshafen
- Sorviodurum → Straubing
- Stadt des KdF-Wagens bei Fallersleben → Wolfsburg
- Starigard → Aldinborg → Oldenburg in Holstein
- Vörde → Bremervörde
Georgia
See List of renamed cities in Georgia
- Aghbulakhi → Tetritsq'aro (1940)
- Baghdati → Maiakovski (1940) → Baghdati (1990)
- Barmaksizi → Tsalka (1932)
- Bashkicheti → Dmanisi (1947)
- Altunkale → Bogdanovka (1829) → Ninotsminda (1991)
- Dioscurias → Savastapolis → Tskhumi → Sohumkale → Sukhumi
- Elisabethtal → Asureti (1943)
- Gegechkori → Martvili (1990)
- Jugeli → Zestafoni (1921)
- Karaiazi → Gardabani (1947)
- Khashuri → Mikhailovo (1872) → Khashuri (1918) → Stalinisi (1931) → Khashuri (1934)
- Chörük-Qamarli → Katarinenfeld (1817) → Lüksemburgi (1921) → Bolnisi (1943)
- Kazbegi → Stepantsminda (2006)
- Leningori → Akhalgori (1991)
- Makharadze → Ozurgeti (1990)
- Orjonikidze → Kharagauli (1990)
- Sarvan → Borchalo (1929) → Marneuli (1947)
- Senaki → Mikha-Tskhakaia (1935) → Tskhakaia (1976) → Senaki (1989)
- Shulavery → Shahumiani (1925) → Shulaveri (1991)
- Trialeti → Molotovo (1940) → Trialeti (1957)
- Tsarskiye Kolodtsy → Tsiteli-Tskaro (1921) → Dedoplis Tskaro (1991)
- Tskhinvali → Staliniri (1934) → Tskhinvali (1961)
- Tsulukidze → Khoni (1990)
Greece
- Banitsa → Vevi
- Boimitsa → Axioupoli
- Kailar → Ptolemaida
- Khandak → Candia → Heraklion
- Lamia → Zitouni → Lamia
- See also: Former toponyms of Greek places and list compiled by the Institute for Neohellenic Research
Guyana
- Wismar-MacKenzie-Christianburg → Linden
Hong Kong
- Un Long → Yuen Long
Hungary
- Dunapentele → Sztálinváros (1949) → Dunaújváros (1961)
- Sövényháza → Ópusztaszer (1974)
- Pernyepuszta → Pernyebánya (1945) → Petőfibánya (1948)
- Tiszaszederkény → Leninváros (1970) → Tiszaújváros (1990)
India
See List of renamed Indian public places
- Madras → Chennai (changed August 1996)
- Fort William → Calcutta → Kolkata (changed January 2001)
- Mumba → Boa Baia → Bombay → Mumbai (changed 1991)
- New Bombay → Navi Mumbai
- Kanhiyapur → Cawnpore → Kanpur (change effective 1948)
- Baroda → Vadodra
- Pataliputra → Patna
- Pondicherry → Puducherry
- Poona → Pune
- Qila Rai Pithora → Siri → Tughluqabad → Jahanpanah → Kotla Firoz Shah → Purana Qila → Shahjahanabad → Delhi
- Trivandrum → Thiruvananthapuram
- Quilon → Kollam
- Aleppey → Alappuzha
- Cochin → Kochi
- Calicut → Kozhikode
- Palghat → Palakkad
- Thrishivaperur → Trichur → Thrissur
- Cannanore → Kannur
- Indravati → Umravti → Amravati
- Tanjore → Thanjavur
- Thirusirappalli → Trichinopoly → Trichy → Tiruchirappalli
- Jeypore → Jaipur
- Ootacamund → Udhagamandalam
- Mapuça → Mapusa
- Panjim → Panaji
Indonesia
- Bandar Aceh Darussalam → Kutaradja → Banda Aceh
- Bangkahulu → Bencoolen → Bengkulu
- Buitenzorg → Bogor
- Emma Haven → Teluk Bayur
- Kalapa → Jayakarta → Batavia → Jakarta
- Port Numbay → Hollandia → Kota Baru → Sukarnopura → Jayapura
- Makasar → Ujungpandang → Makassar
- Meester Cornelis → Djatinegara → Jatinegara
- Tanjungkarang-Telukbetung → Bandar Lampung
- Telanaipura → Jambi
Iran
Ireland
- Mostrim → Edgeworthstown
- Dún Laoghaire - Dun Leary → Kingstown → Dún Laoghaire
- Daingean → Philipstown → Daingean
- Port Laoighise → Maryborough → Portlaoise
- Cove → Queenstown → Cobh
- Eblana → Dublin
- Dingle → An Daingean [Uí Chúis]
Israel
- Acre → Ptolemais → Acre → Akko/Akka
- Yvus → Yerushalayim → Ilea Capitolina → Al-Quds → Yerushalayim/Al-Quds (Jerusalem)
- Ashkelon → Ascalon (Majdal) → Ashqelon
- Joppa → Jaffa → Tel Aviv-Yafo
- Raanania→ Ra'anana
Italy
From history, most Italian cities have Latin names, some have Greek or Etruscan names.
- Akragas → Agrigentum → Girgenti → Agrigento
- Beneventum → Benevento
- Felsina → Bononia → Bologna
- Brundisium → Brindisi
- Carales → Cagliari
- Kroton → Crotona → Crotone
- Florentia → Florence (Firenze)
- Genua → Genoa (Genova)
- Lavinium → Lavinio
- Mediolanum → Milan (Milano)
- Messana → Messina
- Mutina → Modena
- Neapolis → Napolis → Naples (Napoli)
- Olbia → Terranova Pausania → Olbia
- Panormus → Palermo
- Pisae → Pisa
- Rhegium → Reggio di Calabria
- Roma → Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana → Rome (Roma)
- Syrakusai → Siracusa
- Taras → Tarentum → Taranto
- Vicetia → Vicenza
Japan
- Akamagaseki → Shimonoseki (1902)
- Asahi → Owariasahi (1970)
- Edo → Tokyo (1868)
- Fuchū → Shizuoka (1869)
- Fukase → Matsumoto (1582)
- Goka → Hiroshima (1591)
- Hiroshima → Kitahiroshima (1996)
- Hizaori → Asaka (1932)
- Imahama → Nagahama (1575)
- Kameyama → Kameoka (1869)
- Kōriyama → Yamatokōriyama (1954)
- Koromo → Toyota (1959)
- Kozukata → Morioka (Keichō era)
- Kurokawa → Wakamatsu → Aizuwakamatsu (1955)
- Kurume → Higashikurume (1970)
- Murayama → Musashimurayama (1970)
- Nagaoka → Nagaokakyō (1972)
- Naniwa → Ōsaka
- Ōminatotanabu → Mutsu (1960)
- Ōmiya → Hitachiōmiya (2004)
- Ōta → Hitachiōta (1954)
- Ōtsu → Kotsu (672) → Ōtsu (794)
- Ōtsu → Izumiōtsu (1942)
- Sano → Izumisano (1948)
- Sayama → Ōsakasayama (1987)
- Shinobu → Fukushima (1592)
- Takada → Bungotakada (1954)
- Takada → Yamatotakada (1948)
- Takaoka → Hirosaki (1628)
- Tanabe → Kyōtanabe (1997)
- Tsudanuma → Narashino (1954)
- Yamato → Higashiyamato (1970)
Jordan
- Philadelphia → Amman
Kazakhstan
See List of renamed cities in Kazakhstan
- Yasi → Shavgar (?) → Turkestan (Kazakh: Түркістан) (?)
- Novopetrovskoye → Fort Alexandrovsky (1857) → Fort-Shevchenko (1939)
- Ayakoz → Sergiopol (1860) → Ayagoz (Kazakh: Аягөз) (1939)
- Aktau → Shevchenko (1964) → Aktau (Kazakh: Ақтау) (1991)
- Dzharkent → Panfilov (1942) → Zharkent (Kazakh: Жаркент) (1991)
- Guryev → Atyrau (Kazakh: Атырау) (1991)
- Yaitsk → Uralsk (1775) → Oral (Kazakh: Орал) (1991)
- Verniy → Alma-Ata (1921) → Almaty (Kazakh: Алматы) (1992)
- Dzhezkazgan → Zhezkazgan (Kazakh: Жезқазған) (1992)
- Novy Uzen → Zhanaozen (Kazakh: Жаңаөзен) (1992)
- Ust-Kamennaya → Ust-Kamenogorsk (1868) → Oskemen (Kazakh: Өскемен) (1992)
- Chu → Shu (Kazakh: Шу) (1992)
- Yermak → Aksu (Kazakh: Ақсу) (1993)
- Kokchetav → Kokshetau (Kazakh: Көкшетау) (1993)
- Gavrilovka → Taldy-Kurgan (1920) → Taldykorgan (Kazakh: Талдықорған) (1993)
- Chimkent → Shymkent (Kazakh: Шымкент) (1993)
- Leninsk → Baikonur (Kazakh: Байқоңыр) (1995)
- Ak-Mechet → Fort-Perovsky (1853) → Perovsk (1858) → Kyzyl-Orda (1925) → Kyzylorda (Kazakh: Қызылорда) (1996)
- Alexeyevka → Akkol (Kazakh: Ақкөл) (1997)
- Kustanay → Kostanay (Kazakh: Қостанай) (1997)
- Talas → Aulie-Ata (1856) → Mirzoyan (1936) → Jambul (1938) → Zhambyl (1993) → Taraz (Kazakh: Тараз) (1997)
- Akmolinsk → Tselinograd (1961) → Akmola (1992) → Astana (Kazakh: Астана) (1998)
- Aktyubinsk → Aktobe (Kazakh: Ақтөбе) (1999)
- Ridder → Leningorsk (1941) → Ridder (Kazakh: Риддер) (2002)
- Semipalatinsk → Semey (Kazakh: Семей) (2007)
Kenya
North Korea
- Sinuiju → Shingishū → Sinuiju
- Wanggeom-seong → Pyongyang → Seogyeong → Pyongyang → Heijō → Pyongyang
- Wonsanjin → Genzan → Wonsan
South Korea
- Hansan → Hanyang → Hanseong → Gyeongseong → Seoul
- Pusan → Fusan → Pusan → Busan
- Dalgubeol → Taegu → Daegu
- Hanbat → Taejon → Daejeon
- Ungjin → Kongju → Gongju
- Sabi → Soburi → Buyeo
Kyrgyzstan
See List of renamed cities in Kyrgyzstan
- Rybachye → Ysyk-Kel (1989) → Balykchy (1992)
- Karakol → Przhevalsk (1889) → Karakol (1921) → Przhevalsk (1939) → Karakol (1991)
- Pishpek → Frunze (1926) → Bishkek (1991)
Latvia
See List of renamed cities in Latvia
- Stučka → Aizkraukle
- Dünaburg → Borisoglebsk → (1656) → Dünaburg (1667) → Dvinsk (1893) → Daugavpils (1920)
- Libau → Libava → Liepāja (1917)
- Birži → Madona (1920)
- Windau → Ventspils (parallel use until 1920s)
- Wenden → Cēsis (parallel use until 1920s)
- Schrunden → Skrunda (parallel use until 1920s)
- Stukmaņi → Pļaviņas (parallel use until 1920s)
- Sasmaka → Valdemārpils (1926)
- Haynasch → Ainaži (1917)
- Marienburg → Alūksne (~1750)
- Vecauce → Auce (1924)
- Mitau → Mītava → Jelgava (~1860)
- Wolmar → Valmiera (parallel use until 1920s)
Lebanon
Lithuania
See also List of cities and towns in East Prussia See List of renamed cities in Lithuania
- Georgenburg → Jurbarkas
- Memel → Klaipėda (1923)
- Pašešupys → Starapolė (1736) → Marijampolė (1758) → Kapsukas (1956) → Marijampolė (1989)
- Šilokarčema → Šilutė (1923)
- Vilkmergė → Ukmergė (1920s)
- Medininkai → Varniai (16th century)
- Sniečkus → Visaginas (1992)
- Duoliebaičiai → Władysławów/Vladislavovas (1639) → Naumiestis → Kudirkos Naumiestis (1934)
- Zarasai → Novoalexandrovsk (1836) → Ežerėnai (1919) → Zarasai (1929)
- Mažeikiai → Muravyov (1899) → Mažeikiai (1918)
Libya
- Oea → Tripoli
Madagascar
- Tananarive → Antananarivo
- Diego Suárez → Antsiranana
Malaysia
- Jesselton → Kota Kinabalu (1968)
- Port Swettenham → Port Klang (1963)
- Victoria → Bandar Labuan
Mexico
- Cajeme → Ciudad Obregón
- Ciudad Real → San Cristobal de las Casas
- Pitic → Hermosillo
- Querétaro → Santiago de Querétaro
- San Juan Bautista → Villahermosa
- Tenochtitlán → Ciudad de México
- Valladolid → Morelia
- Zapotlán → Ciudad Guzmán
Moldova
See List of renamed cities in Moldova
- Romanovca → (1960 ?) Basarabeasca
- Cupcini → (1960 ?) Kalininsk → (1990) Cupcini
- Ghindeşti → (1950 ?) Leninskii → (1990) Ghindeşti
- Hînceşti → (1940) Kotovsk → (1941) Hînceşti → (1944) Kotovsk → (1990) Hînceşti
- Ialoveni → (1960 ?) Kutuzov → (1990) Ialoveni
- Sîngerei → (1940 ?) Lazovsk → (1990) Sîngerei
- Şoldăneşti → (1985) Chernenko → (1988) Şoldăneşti
- Biruinţa → (1940 ?) Suvorovo → (1990) Ştefan Vodă
Villages
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza → (1940 ?) Suvorovo → (1990s) Alexandru Ioan Cuza
- Chişcăreni → (1960 ?) Lazo → (1990) Chişcăreni
Montenegro
- Berane → Ivangrad (1949) → Berane (1992)
- Birziminium → Ribnica → Podgorica (1326) → Titograd (1946) → Podgorica (1992)
Morocco
Mozambique
- Lourenço Marques → Maputo (1976)
Myanmar
- Akyab → Sittwe
- Amherst → Kyaikkami
- Bassein → Pathein
- Henzada → Hinthada
- Maymyo → Pyin U Lwin
- Moulmein → Mawlamyaing
- Myohaung → Mrauk U
- Pagan → Bagan
- Pegu → Bago
- Prome → Pyay
- Dagon → Rangoon → Yangon
- Sandoway → Thandwe
- Syriam → Thanlyin
- Tavoy → Dawei
- Yaunghwe → Nyaung Shwe
Netherlands
- Coriovallum → Heerlen
- Noviomagus Batavorum (or Batavodurum) → Nimwegen → Nijmegen
- Traiectum → Traiectum ad Mosam → Maastricht
- Traiectum → Ultra Traiectum → Utrecht
Norway
- Oslo → Christiania → Kristiania →Oslo
- Kaupangen → Nidaros → Trondhjem → Nidaros → Trondheim
- Fredrikshald → Halden
Pakistan
- Fort Sandeman → Zhob (changed - 30 July 1976)
- Lyallpur → Faisalabad (changed - 1977)
- Montgomery → Sahiwal (changed - 1966)
- Nawabshah → Benazirabad (changed - 2008)
Paraguay
- Puerto Flor de Lis → Puerto Presidente Stroessner → Ciudad del Este
- Ajos → Coronel Oviedo
Poland
- Aleksandrowo → Aleksandrów Pograniczny → Aleksandrów Kujawski
- Jędrzychów → Andrzychów → Andrychów
- Barcino → Barcin
- Wartberge → Wartenburg → Nowowiejsk2 → Barczewo
- Brido → Wartha → Bardo
- Neu Berlin → Berlinchen → Barlinek
- Rosenthal → Bartenstein → Bartoszyce
- Barwica → Bärwalde1 → Barwice2
- Biała → Zülz1 → Biała2
- Gajle → Biała → Gehlen1 → Gehlenburg → Biała Piska2
- Brzegi → Białe Brzegi → Białobrzegi
- Biały Bór → Baldenburg1 → Biały Bór2
- Bielszczany Stok → Białystok
- Biała → Langenbielau1 → Bielawa2
- Lignica → Fürstenwald1 → Beroldestadt → Bernstadt → Bierutów2
- Bischofsburg → Biskupiec2
- Strowangen → Bischofstein → Bistein → Bisztynek2
- Błaszkowice → Błaszki
- Richnow → Reichenau1 → Rychwałd2 → Bogatynia
- Gross-Born → Borne Sulinowo2
- Brusseberge → Brunsberg → Braunsberg → Braniewo2
- Brwinowo → Brwinów
- Wysoki Brzeg → Brieg1 → Brzeg2
- Brzeg → Dyhernfurth → Brzeg Dolny2
- Busk → Busko → Busko Zdrój
- Bydgoszcz → Bromberg → Bydgoszcz2 → Bromberg → Bydgoszcz2
- Bystrzyce → Habelschwerdt1 → Bystrzyca Kłodzka
- Bytom → Beuthen an der Oder1 → Białobrzezie2 → Bytom Odrzański
- Łoza → Kulmsee1 → Chełmża2
- Freienwalde → Chociwel2
- Konice → Konigesberge1 → Königsberg in der Neumark → Chojna2
- Chorzów → Königshütte1 → Chorzów2
- Arnswalde → Choszczno2
- Tempelburg → Czaplinek2
- Czarne → Hammerstein1 → Czarne2 → Hammerstein1 → Czarne2
- Rothenburg → Czerwieńsk2
- Dęblin → Iwanogród → Dęblin
- Dzierzgoń → Neu Christburg1 → Christburg → Dzierzgoń2
- Reichenbach → Dzierżoniów2
- Łęg → Lyck → Ełk
- Gdynia → Gotenhafen → Gdynia
- Danzig → Gdansk2
- Nowa Wieś → Lötzen → Giżycko2
- Landsberg → Landsberg an der Warthe → Gorzów Wielkopolski2
- Nowy Włodzisław → Junowłodzisław → Inowłodzisław → Inowłocław → Inowrocław → Hohensalza → Inowrocław → Hohensalza → Inowrocław
- Biała → Janów → Janów Lubelski
- Hirschberg → Jelenia Góra2
- Kattowitz → Katowice → Stalinogród → Katowice
- Wietrzna Góra → Kazimierz → Kazimierz Dolny
- Rast → Rastenburg → Kętrzyn
- Kladsko → Glatz → Kłodzko
- Hurthland → Friedland → Korfantów2
- Lignica → Liegnitz1 → Legnica2
- Łódź → Litzmannstadt1 → Łódź2
- Berenwalde → Bärwalde → Mieszkowice2
- Mieńsk → Mińsk → Nowomińsk → Mińsk Mazowiecki
- Sensburg → Mrągowo
- Florianów → Narol
- Nowe Miasto Korczyn → Nowy Korczyn
- Margrabowa → Treuburg1 → Olecko2
- Pazluk → Hollandt1 → Preußisch Holland → Pasłęk2
- Piasek → Piaski Luterskie → Piaski
- Melcekuke → Mehlsack → Pieniężno2
- Pisz → Johannisburg1 → Pisz2
- Przemków → Primkenow1 → Primkenau1 → Przemków2
- Puławy → Nowa Aleksandria → Puławy
- Słupsk → Stolp1 → Słupsk2
- Ortulfsburg → Ortelsburg → Szczytno2
- Rogoźno → Jelitowo → Tomaszów → Tomaszów Lubelski
- Waldenberg → Waldenburg → Wałbrzych2
- Wejherowska Wola → Neustadt1 → Wejherowo → Neustadt1 → Wejherowo
- Wielka Wieś → Władysławowo
- Włodzisław → Włocław → Leslau → Włocławek → Leslau → Włocławek2
- Wrocisław → Wrocław → Preßlau1 → Breslau → Wrocław2
- Zabrze → Hindenburg1 → Zabrze2
- Zawadzki → Andreashütte1 → Zawadzkie2
- Zielona Góra → Grünberg1 → Zielona Góra2
- 1 Cities in western side that have been changed when Poland got independence from Austria-Hungary in 1918
- 2 Former German cities during 1918-1939, and became a city in Nazi Germany, and became a Polish city after 1942.
Portugal
- Aeminium → Coimbra
- Bracara Augusta → Braga
- Conimbriga → Condeixa-a-Nova (Coimbra)
- Iebora → Évora
- Olisipo → Al-Usbuna → Lisbon (Lisboa)
- Pax Iulia → Beja
- Portus Cale → Porto (Oporto) and Vila Nova de Gaia
- Sheberina → Serpa
- Sintara → Sintra
- Villa Euracini → Vila Ueracin (1206) → Varazim (1308) → Póvoa de Varzim
Romania
- Axiopolis → Cernavodă
- Abruttus → Abrud
- Ad Mediam → Băile Herculane
- Aegyssus → Tulcea
- Ampelum → Zlatna
- Apulum → Bălgrad → Gyulafehérvár → Alba Iulia
- Arrubium → Măcin
- Kronstadt → Braşov → Oraşul Stalin → Braşov
- Bucureşci → Bucureşti (Bucharest)
- Calatis → Mankalya →Mangalia
- Carsium → Hârşova
- Cibinum → Hermannstadt → Nagyszeben → Sibiu
- Dierna → Orşova
- Jassy → Yaş→ Iaşi
- Marosvásárhely → Târgu Mureş
- Napoca → Klausenburg → Kolozsvár → Cluj → Cluj-Napoca
- Noviodunum → Isaccea
- Porolissum → Zalău
- Potaissa → Turda
- Temesvár → Tamışvar → Temesvár → Timişoara
- Tomis → Constanţa
- Drobeta → Turnu Severin → Drobeta-Turnu Severin
Russia
See List of renamed cities and towns in Russia
- Abinsky → Abinsk (1963)
- Adygeysk (1969) → Teuchezhsk (1976) → Adygeysk (1992)
- Aksayskaya → Aksaysk
- Alexandria (1838) → Dakhovsky (1864) → Dakhovsky Posad (1874) → Sochi (1896)
- Alexandrovsk (1896) → Polyarny (1939)
- Alexandrovskaya → Alexandrovka → Alexandrovsky (1917) → Alexandrovsk-Sakhalinsky (1926)
- Alexandrovskoye (1860) → Alexandrovka (1926) → Krasnopartizansk (1931) → Kuybyshevka-Vostochnaya (1936) → Belogorsk (1957)
- Alexeyevsk (1912) → Svobodny (1917)
- Almetyevo → Almetyevsk
- Antrea → Kamennogorsk (1948)
- Apsheronskaya (1863) → Apsheronsk (1947)
- Armyansky Aul (1839) → Armavir (1848)
- Arzamas-16 (1946) → Kremlyov (1991) → Sarov (1995)
- Astapovo → Lev Tolstoy (settlement)
- Balanda → Kalininsk
- Bashanta → Gorodovikovsk
- Batalpashinkaya (1804) → Batalpashinsk (1931) → Sulimov (1934) → Yezhovo-Cherkessk (1937) → Cherkessk (1939)
- Beloozero (862) → Belozersk (1777)
- Belorechenskaya (1863) → Belorechensk (1958)
- Beloretsk → Mezhgorye
- Belotsarsk (1914) → Khem-Beldyr (1918) → Kyzyl (1926)
- Bikinskaya → Bikin
- Biryuch → Budyonny → Krasnogvardeyskoye → Biryuch (2007)
- Bobriki → Donskoy
- Bobriki → Stalinogorsk (1934) → Novomoskovsk (1961)
- Bogdanovo → Spassk → Bednodemyanovsk → Spassk
- Bolokhovsky → Bolokhovo
- Bondyuzhsk → Mendeleyevsk
- Borovskaya Sloboda → Bor (1938)
- Beryozovskoye → Björkö → Koivisto → Primorsk, Leningrad Oblast
- Chegem Pervy → Chegem
- Chembar → Belinsky
- Chertanla → Novyy Uzen' (1835) → Novouzensk
- Chesnokovka → Novoaltaysk (1962)
- Chelyabinsk-40 (1945) → Chelyabinsk-65 → Ozyorsk (1994)
- Chelyabinsk-70 → Snezhinsk (1991)
- Chibyu (1929) → Ukhta (1939)
- Chinnay → Krasnogorsk
- Cranz → Zelenogradsk (1945)
- Darkehmen → Angerapp (1938) → Ozyorsk (1945)
- Dmitriyev → Dmitriyev-na-Svape → Dmitriyev
- Dmitrovka → Dmitrovsk → Dmitrovsk-Orlovsky → Dmitrovsk (2005)
- Dokshukino (1913) → Nartkala (1967)
- Dolgoprudny → Dirizhablstroy → Dolgoprudny
- Dvigatelstroy → Kaspiysk (1947)
- Dzerzhinsky → Sorsk (1966)
- Elektroperedacha → Elektrogorsk
- Enso (1887) → Svetogorsk (1948)
- Esutoru → Uglegorsk
- Fischhausen → Primorsk (1946)
- Friedland → Pravdinsk (1946)
- Galkino-Vrasskoye (1884) → Ochiai (1905) → Dolinsk (1946)
- Goly Karamysh → Baltser → Krasnoarmeysk
- Gorodetsk → Bezhetsk (1766)
- Gorodok → Zakamensk (1959)
- Grushyovskaya → Gornoye Grushyovskoye → Alexandrovsk-Grushyovsky → Shakhty
- Gukovsky → Gukovo
- Gumbinnen → Gusev
- Gundorovka → Donetsk
- Gzhatsk → Gagarin
- Heiliegenbeil → Mamonovo
- Heinrichswalde → Slavsk
- Iletskaya Zashchita → Iletsk → Iletskoye → Iletskaya Zashchita → Sol-Iletsk
- Iman → Dalnerechensk
- Insterburg → Chernyakhovsk
- Ivanovo-Voznesensk → Ivanovo
- Izhevsky Zavod → Izhevsk → Ustinov → Izhevsk
- Izhma → Sosnogorsk
- Kainsk → Kuybyshev
- Kalata → Kirovgrad
- Kaliningrad → Korolyov
- Kamen → Kamen-na-Obi
- Kamenskaya → Kamensk-Shakhtinsky
- Kamensky Zavod → Kamensk-Uralsky
- Kamyshin → Dmitriyevsk → Kamyshin
- Kasivabora → Severo-Kurilsk
- Kaspiysky → Lagan
- Khabarovka → Khabarovsk
- Kharovsky → Kharovsk
- Khibinogorsk → Kirovsk, Murmansk Oblast
- Khlynov → Vyatka → Kirov
- Khonto → Nevelsk
- Khotchino → Gatchina → Trotsk (1923) → Krasnogvardeysk (1929) → Gatchina (1944)
- Khrushchyovskaya → Uzlovaya
- Kiyskoye → Mariinsk
- Kodinsky → Kodinsk
- Kolchugino → Lenino → Leninsk-Kuznetsky
- Komsomolsky → Yugorsk
- Korela → Keksgolm → Priozyorsk
- Korsakovsky Post → Otomari → Korsakov
- Kozlov → Michurinsk
- Königsberg → Kaliningrad
- Krasnaya Sloboda → Krasnoslobodsk
- Krasnoflotsky → Krasnoarmeysky → Krasnoarmeysk
- Krasnoyarsk-26 → Zheleznogorsk
- Kremlyov → Sarov
- Krestov Brod → Roshal
- Kseniyevsky → Asino
- Kudelka → Asbest
- Kukarka → Sovetsk
- Kurgannaya → Kurganinsk
- Kushvinsky Zavod → Kushva
- Kuznetsk → Novokuznetsk → Stalinsk → Novokuznetsk
- Kuznetsovo → Konakovo
- Labiau → Polessk
- Labinskaya → Labinsk
- Lakinsky → Lakinsk
- Laptevo → Yasnogorsk
- Lazdinay → Lazdenen → Krasnoznamensk
- Lermontovsky → Lermontov
- Likhvin → Chekalin
- Lopasnya → Chyornoye Ozero → Chekhov
- Losinaya Sloboda → Losino-Petrovsky
- Lyantorsky → Lyantor
- Lyutoga → Rudaka → Aniva
- Maoka (Mauka) → Kholmsk
- Mechetnaya → Nikolayevsk → Pugachyov
- Medvezhyya Gora → Medvezhyegorsk
- Melekess → Dimitrovgrad
- Mikhaylovskoye → Shpakovskoye → Mikhaylovsk
- Mikhaylovsky Zavod → Mikhaylovsk
- Mikoyan-Shakhar → Klukhori → Karachayevsk
- Mukhtuya → Lensk
- Muravlenkovsky → Muravlenko
- Mysovaya → Mysovsk → Babushkin
- Naberezhnye Chelny → Brezhnev → Naberezhnye Chelny
- Nadezhdinsk → Kabakovsk → Nadezhdinsk → Serov
- Naykhoro → Gornozavodsk
- Nazyvayevskaya → Nazyvayevka → Nazyvayevsk
- Neuhausen → Guryevsk
- Nevdubstroy → Kirovsk
- Nevyansky Zavod → Nevyansk
- Nezametny → Aldan
- Nikolayevsky → Nikolayevsk → Nikolayevsk-na-Amure
- Nikolo-Pestrovka → Nikolo-Pestrovsky → Nikolsk
- Nikolskoye → Nikolsk → Nikolsk-Ussuriysky → Voroshilov → Ussuriysk
- Nikolsky Khutor → Sursk
- Nizhnetagilsky Zavod → Nizhny Tagil
- Nizhnevartovsky → Nizhnevartovsk
- Nizhnevolzhsk → Narimanov
- Nizhny Novgorod → Gorky → Nizhny Novgorod
- Noda → Chekhov
- Nolinsk → Molotovsk → Nolinsk
- Novaya Derevnya → Alexandrovsky → Novonikolayevsky → Novonikolayevsk → Novosibirsk
- Novaya Pokrovka → Svoboda (1943) → Liski → Georgiu-Dezh (1965) → Liski (1990)
- Novgorod → Veliky Novgorod (1998)
- Novo-Mariinsk → Anadyr
- Novoalexandrovskaya → Novoalexandrovsk
- Novokuybyshevsky → Novokuybyshevsk
- Novonikolayevsk → Novosibirsk
- Novopavlovskaya → Novopavlovsk
- Novotroitsk → Baley
- Novovoronezhsky → Novovoronezh
- Novy Zay → Zainsk
- Novyye Petushki → Petushki
- Nyakh → Nyagan
- Obdorsk → Salekhard
- Olensk → Vilyuysk
- Olkhovsky → Artyomovsk
- Olzheras → Mezhdurechensk
- Omutninsky Zavod → Omutninsk
- Oraniyenbaum → Lomonosov
- Orenburg → Chkalov → Orenburg
- Oreshek → Nöteborg → Shlisselburg → Petrokrepost → Shlisselburg
- Orlov → Khalturin → Orlov
- Osinovka → Osinniki
- Ostyako-Vogulsk → Khanty-Mansiysk
- Pavlovo → Pavlovsky Posad
- Pavlovsk → Slutsk → Pavlovsk
- Pechory → Petseri → Pechory
- Pereyaslavl-Ryazansky → Ryazan
- Perm → Molotov → Perm
- Permskoye → Komsomolsk-na-Amure
- Pervomaysky → Novodvinsk
- Pesochnya → Kirov
- Peterhof → Petrodvorets → Petergof
- Petropavlovsky → Petropavlovsky Port → Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
- Petropavlovsky → Severouralsk
- Petrovskoye → Petrovsk-Port → Makhachkala
- Petrovskoye → Svetlograd
- Petrovsky Zavod → Petrovsk-Zabaykalsky
- Pillau → Baltiysk
- Pokrovskaya → Pokrovsk → Engels
- Pokrovskoye → Pokrovsk
- Porechye → Demidov
- Poshekhonye → Poshekhonye-Volodarsk → Poshekhonye
- Prishib → Leninsk
- Protva → Zhukov
- Pryoysish-Elau → Bagrationovsk
- Pyora → Gondatti → Vladimiro-Shimanovsky → Shimanovsk
- Raduga → Vladimir-30 → Raduzhny
- Ragnit → Neman
- Ranenburg → Chaplygin
- Rastyapino → Dzerzhinsk
- Rauschen → Svetlogorsk
- Raychikha → Raychikhinsk
- Romanov-Borisoglebsk → Tutayev
- Romanov-na-Murmane → Murmansk
- Romanovsky → Kropotkin
- Saint Petersburg (1703) → Petrograd (1914) → Leningrad (1924) → Saint Petersburg (Sankt-Peterburg) (1991)
- Samara → Kuybyshev → Samara
- Selyutora → Siritoru → Makarov
- Semyonovka → Arsenyev
- Serdobol → Sortavala
- Sereda → Furmanov
- Sergiyev Posad → Sergiyev → Zagorsk → Sergiyev Posad
- Sergiyevskoye → Plavsk
- Shakhty → Gusinoozyorsk
- Sharypovskoye → Sharypovo → Chernenko → Sharypovo
- Shcheglovo → Shcheglovsk → Kemerovo
- Shikhrany → Kanash
- Shkotovo-17 → Tikhookeansky → Fokino
- Sieklakhti → Lakhdenpokhya
- Simbirsk → Ulyanovsk
- Skalisty → Gadzhiyevo
- Slavyanskaya → Slavyansk-na-Kubani
- Solnechnogorsky → Solnechnogorsk
- Sorochinskoye → Sorochinsk
- Spassk → Spassk-Tatarsky → Kuybyshev → Bolgar, Russia
- Spasskoye → Spassk → Spassk-Dalny
- Spasskoye → Spassk → Spassk-Ryazansky
- Stakhanovo → Zhukovsky
- Stallupönen → Nesterov
- Stary Rogozhsky Yam → Bogorodsk → Noginsk
- Stavropol → Togliatti
- Stavropol → Voroshilovsk → Stavropol
- Stupinskaya → Elektrovoz → Stupino
- Suchansky Rudnik → Suchan → Partizansk
- Sudostroy → Molotovsk → Severodvinsk
- Sundyr → Mariinsky Posad
- Suyetikha → Biryusinsk
- Sverdlovsk-45 → Lesnoy
- Svoboda → Liski → Georgiu-Dey → Liski
- Svobodny → Cherepanovo
- Svyatoy Krest → Prikumsk → Budyonnovsk → Prikumsk → Budyonnovsk
- Syana → Kurilsk
- Sysertsky Zavod → Sysert
- Taldom → Leninsk → Taldom
- Tapiau → Gvardeysk
- Tashino → Pervomaysk
- Temir-Khan-Shura → Buynaksk
- Terijoki → Zelenogorsk
- Tetyukhe → Dalnegorsk
- Tikhmenevsky → Sikuka → Poronaysk
- Tikhoretskaya → Tikhoretsk
- Tilsit → Sovetsk
- Tomarioru → Tomari
- Tomsk-7 → Seversk
- Toro → Shakhtyorsk
- Troitsa → Udomlya
- Troitsko-Zaozyornoye → Zaozyorny
- Troitskosavsk → Kyakhta
- Troitskoye → Troitsky → Troitsk
- Trongzund → Uuras → Trongzund → Vysotsk
- Trotsk → Chapayevsk
- Truyevo-Naryshkino → Kuznetsk
- Tsaritsyn → Stalingrad → Volgograd
- Tsarskoye Selo → Detskoye Selo → Pushkin
- Tsaryovokokshaysk → Krasnokokshaysk → Yoshkar-Ola
- Tsimlyanskaya → Tsimlyansk
- Turyinsky → Krasnoturyinsk
- Tver → Kalinin → Tver
- Tyndinsky → Tynda
- Udinsk → Verhneudinsk → Ulan-Ude
- Ulala → Oyrot-Tura → Gorno-Altaysk
- Uralmedstroy → Krasnouralsk
- Usolye → Usolye-Sibirskoye
- Ust-Abakanskoye → Khakassk → Abakan
- Ust-Belokalitvenskaya → Belaya Kalitva
- Ust-Katavsky Zavod → Ust-Katav
- Ust-Medveditskaya → Serafimovich
- Ust-Sheksna → Rybansk → Rybnaya Sloboda → Rybnoy → Rybinsk → Shcherbakov → Rybinsk → Andropov → Rybinsk
- Ust Zeysky military post → Blagoveshchensk
- Vasilyovo → Chkalovsk
- Vayenga → Severomorsk
- Velikoknyazheskaya → Proletarskaya → Proletarsk
- Velyaminovsky → Tuapse
- Verkhneudinsky → Verkhneudinsk → Ulan-Ude
- Vinodelnoye → Ipatovo
- Vladikavkaz → Ordzhonikidze → Dzaudzhikau → Ordzhonikidze → Vladikavkaz
- Vladimirovka → Toyokhara → Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
- Volkhovstroy → Volkhov (1940)
- Volodary → Volodarsk
- Vorontsovo-Alexandrovskoye → Sovetskoye → Zelenokumsk
- Voskresenskoye → Voskresensk → Istra (not to be confused with another Voskresensk)
- Voznesenskaya → Vereshchagino
- Vyborg → Viipuri → Vyborg
- Vyzhaikha → Krasnovishersk
- Yakovlevskoye → Privolzhsk
- Yama → Yamsky Gorodok → Yama → Yamburg → Kingisepp (1922)
- Yauntlatgale → Abrene → Pytalovo
- Yegorshino → Artyomovsky
- Yekaterinburg → Sverdlovsk → Yekaterinburg
- Yekaterinodar → Krasnodar
- Yekaterinenstadt (Baronsk) → Marxstadt → Marks
- Yuryuzansky Zavod → Yuryuzan
- Zaozyorny-13 → Krasnoyarsk-45 → Zelenogorsk (1992)
- Zarinskaya → Zarinsk
- Zatishye → Elektrostal
- Zavolzhye → Zavolzhsk
- Zavoyko → Yelizovo
- Zernovoy → Zernograd
- Zeysky Sklad → Zeya-Pristan → Zeya
- Zhdanovsk → Zapolyarny
- Zheleznodorozhny → Yemva
- Zhirnoye → Zhirnovsky → Zhirnovsk
- Zimmerbude → Svetly
- Zlatoust-36 → Tryokhgorny
- Zmeiny → Never-1 → Rukhlovo → Skovorodino
Serbia
- Horreum Margi → Ravno → Ćuprija
- Veliki Bečkerek → Bečkerek → Petrovgrad → Zrenjanin
- Jagodina → Svetozarevo → Jagodina
- Kraljevo → Rankovićevo → Kraljevo
- Naissus → Niš
- Singidunum → Singidon → Beograd
- Taurunum → Zemun
- Sirmium → Sremska Mitrovica
- Užice → Titovo Užice (1946) → Užice (1992)
- Vrbas → Titov Vrbas (1983) → Vrbas (1992)
- Zanes → Pontes → Novi Grad → Fetislam → Kladovo
- Zaslon → Šabac
Singapore
- Temasek → Singapore
Slovakia
- Kaschau → Kassa Košice
- Pressburg, Pozsony → Bratislava
- Besztercebánya → Banská Bystrica
Slovenia
- Assling → Jesenice
- Bischofslack → Škofja Loka
- Celeia → Cilli → Celje
- Egida → Capris → Justinopolis → Caput Histriae → Koper/Capodistria
- Emona → Laibach → Ljubljana
- Marburg → Maribor
- Poetovio → Pettau → Ptuj
- Pirano → Piran
- Capodistria → Koper
- Portorose → Portorož
- Velenje → Titovo Velenje (1981) → Velenje (1991)
- Castra ad fluvium frigidum → Ajdovščina
- Atrans → Trojane
South Africa
- This section of the article article can be greatly expanded with material from the corresponding page in Afrikaans Wikipedia
Although many name changes have taken place officially since 1994, the previous names are still common in use, especially by the white communities (* means that all or some road signs still print the former name). This list doesn't include unofficially or proposed name changes such as Pretoria to Tshwane.
Pre 1994
- Albertsburg → Prince Albert (1845)
- McHattiesburg → Balfour (1905)
- Port Natal → Durban
- Treurfontein → Coligny (1923)
Post 1994
- Belfast → eMakhazeni (2009) [1]*
- Bisho → Bhisho (2004)
- Butterworth → Gcuwa*
- Duiwelskloof → Modjadjiskloof (2004)[2]
- Ellisras → Lephalale (2002)
- Louis Trichardt → Makhado → Louis Trichardt (name change reverted)*[3]
- Machadodorp → eNtokozweni (2009)[1]*
- Malelane → Malalane (2007)*
- Messina → Musina (2003)
- Naboomspruit → Mookgopong (2006)
- Nelspruit → Mbombela[1][4] (2009, however Nelspruit was used during the 2010 FIFA World Cup)*
- Phalaborwa → BaPhalaborwa*
- Pietersburg → Polokwane (2005)
- Potgietersrus → Mokopane (2003)
- Stanger → KwaDukuza (2006)*
- Umtata → Mthatha (2004)
- Verwoerdburg → Centurion (1994)
- Warmbad/Warmbaths → Bela Bela (2002)*[5]
- Waterval Boven → Emgwenya (2009)[1]*
- Witbank → Emalahleni (2006)
Spain
- Abula → Ávila
- Acci → Guadix
- Aurariola → Orihuela
- Augusta Emerita → Mérida
- Azaña → Numancia de la Sagra (1936, by enemies of Manuel Azaña).
- Barcino → Barcino Nova → Barcelona
- Basti → Baza
- Bayona de Tajuña → Titulcia (since the owner did not want to remind Ferdinand VII of Spain of his captivity at Bayonne).
- Brigantium → Caronium → Corunna → La Coruña → A Coruña
- Colonia Caecilia Metellinum → Medellin
- Colonia Iulia Romula → Hispalis → Isbilia → Seville (Sevilla)
- Colonia Norba Caesarina → Norba → Cáceres
- Colonia Patricia → Corduba → Qurtuba → Córdoba
- Complutum → Alcalá de Henares
- Dertosa → Tortosa
- Dianinum → Denia
- Egara → Tarrasa → Terrassa
- El Ferrol → El Ferrol del Caudillo → Ferrol
- Fuenterrabía → Hondarribia
- Gadir → Gades → Cádiz
- Gasteiz → Nueva Victoria → Vitoria-Gasteiz
- Guernica → Guernica y Luno → Gernika-Lumo
- Guecho → Getxo
- Gerunda → Gerona → Girona
- Ilerda → Lérida → Lleida
- Illice → Elche / Elx
- Legio → León
- Lejona → Leioa
- Lucentum → Laquant → Alicante
- Lucus Augusti → Lugo
- Mainake → Malaca → Málaga
- Mahón → Maó
- Onuba → Huelva
- Pompaelo → Pamplona
- Qart Hadast → Carthago Nova → Cartagena
- Quintanilla → Quintanilla de Onésimo
- Saguntum → Murviedro / Morvedre → Sagunto
- Salduba → Caesaraugusta → Saraqusta → Zaragoza
- Sos → Sos del Rey Católico
- Helmantica → Salamantica → Salamanca
- Tarraco → Tarraco nova → Tarragona
- Toletum → Tulaytula → Toledo
- Villa Real → Ciudad Real
- Xera → Ceret → Xerez → Xerez de la Frontera → Jerez de la Frontera
Eswatini
- Bremersdorp → Manzini (1960)
- Buffelspruit → Mhlambanyatsi
- Goedgegun → Nhlangano
- Havelock Mine → Bulembu
Switzerland
- Augusta Raurica → Kaiseraugst
- Aventicum → Wiflispurg → Avenches
- Eburodunum → Yverdon-les-Bains
- Lousonna → Lausanne
- Minnodunum → Moudon
- Octodurus → Martigny
- Turicum → Zürich
- Brenno***(durum?) → Bern
Syria
- Aleppo → Beroea → Aleppo (It was known halep during Turkish rule. Present name is Halab)
- Emesa → Humus → Homs
- Hamath → Hama
- Laodicea → Lazkiye → Latakia
- Palmyra → Tadmor
Taiwan (Republic of China)
†Name change in English due to replacement of outdated romanization methods with the Pinyin Romanization Method. Chinese name unchanged.
Tajikistan
See List of renamed cities in Tajikistan
- Dushanbe → Stalinabad (1929) → Dushanbe (1961)
- Khodjend → Leninabad (1939) → Khujand (1991)
- Kurgan-Tyube → Qurghonteppa
- Sovietabad → Ghafurov (1978)
- Ura-Tyube → Istaravshan (2001)
- Yangi-Bazar → Orjonikidzeabad (1936) → Qofarnihon (1992) → Vahdat (2003)
Tanzania
Thailand
Turkey
Many cities were founded by the Ancient Anatolians, Ionians and Greeks or their contemporaries, and renamed as Latinized by the Romans, and later again by Muslim Turks ( in most cases Turkified speech)
European (Eastern Thrace)
- Hadrianopolis/Adrianople → Edirne
- Byzantion → Byzantium → Constantinopolis/Constantinople → Istanbul
Anatolia (Asia Minor)
- Alexandretta → İskenderun
- Amida → Diyar-ı Bekr → Diyarbekir → Diyarbakır
- Amisus → Samsun
- Ancyra → Angora → Ankara
- Antiocheia -> Antiochia/Antioch → Antakya
- Archelais -> Aksaray
- Attalia → Attalea → Adalia → Antalya
- Bythinion/Bythinium → Claudiopolis → Bolu
- Chalkedon → Chalcedon → Kadıköy
- Cius → Prusa → Bursa
- Dorylaeum -> Eskişehir
- Edessa → Sanli Urfa (Şanlıurfa)
- Ephesos → Ephesus -> Efes
- Halikarnassos → Halicarnassus → Bodrum
- Iconium → Konya
- Kyzikos → Cyzicus
- Magnesia → Manisa
- Mazaca → Caesarea Mazaca → Kayseri
- Melitene → Malatya
- Mylasa -> Milas
- Nikaia → Nicaea → İznik
- Nicomedia → İznikmid → İzmit
- Pergamon → Pergamum → Bergama
- Sinope → Sinop
- Smyrna → İzmir
- Theodosiopolis → Kalikala→ Erzurum
- Tralles → Güzelhisar → Aydın
- Trapezon → Trapezus → Trebizond → Trabzon
Turkmenistan
See List of renamed cities in Turkmenistan
- Bekdaş → Garabogaz
- Charjuy → Leninsk (1924) → Charjuy = Charjou = Çarjew (1927) → Turkmenabat (1999)
- Çeleken → Hazar
- Gazanjyk → Bereket
- Gyzyl-arbat → Serdar (city)
- Krasnovodsk → Turkmenbashi (1993)
- Kushka = Guşgy → Serhetabat
- Nebit-dag → Balkanabat
- Poltoratsk → Ashgabat
Ukraine
See List of renamed cities in Ukraine
- Crimea
- Aluston → Lusta → Aluşta → Alushta (1784)
- Ermeni Bazar → Armyanskiy Bazar (1736) → Armyansk (1921)
- Karasubazar → Bilohirsk (1944)
- Aqmeçit → Chornomorske (1944)
- Canköy → Dzhankoy (1784)
- Kerkinitis → Kezlev (7th century) → Gözleve → Yevpatoria (1784)
- Theodosia → Ardabda → Kafas → Caffa → Kefe (1475) → Feodosiya (1784)
- Sarabuz → Hvardiyske (1944)
- Inkerman → Belokamensk (1976) → Inkerman (1991)
- Panticapaeum → Bosporus → Korchev → Vosporo/Cerchio → Kerch
- İslâm Terek → Kirovske (1944)
- Kurman-Kumelĉi → Krasnohvardiyske (1944)
- Qızıltaş → Krasnokamianka (1945)
- Aşağı Otuz → Prymorye (1945) → Kurortne (1978)
- Albat → Kuybysheve (1945)
- Yedi Quyu → Sem Kolodezey (1784) → Lenine (1957)
- Seyitler → Nyzhniohirsk (1944)
- Büyük Onlar → Oktiabrske (1945)
- Kaygador → Provalnoe → Dvoyakornoe → Bubnovka → Ordjonikidze (1937)
- Yañı Küçükköy → Parkove
- Or Qapı → Perekop (1736)
- Curçı → Pervomaiske (1944)
- Aşağı Kikineiz → Ponyzivka
- Bazarçıq → Poshtove (1945)
- Hafuz → Yuzhnaya Tochka (1938) → Primosrky (1952)
- Aqşeyh → Rozdolne (1944)
- Saq → Saky (1784)
- Aqyar → Sevastopol (1826; also: Sebastopol)
- Otuz → Shchebetovka (1944)
- Aqmescit → Simferopol (1784)
- Dolossı → Sovietske
- İçki → Sovietsky (1944)
- Eski Qırım → Staryi Krym (1783)
- Sudaq → Sudak (1784)
- Zaporizhia
- Alexandrovsk → Zaporizhia (1921)
- Luhansk
- Yuryevka → Alchevsk (1903) → Voroshylovsk (1931) → Voroshylovsk/Alchevsk (1957) → Komunarsk (1961) → Alchevsk (1991)
- Izium → Almaznaya (1878) → Almazna (1977)
- Bokovo-Antratsyt → Antratsyt (1962)
- Yekaterinovka → Artem (1923) → Artemivsk (1938)
- Gorskoye → Hirske (1938)
- Golubyevskiy Rudnik → Kirovsk (1962)
- Sorokino → Krasnodon (1938)
- Kryndachiovka → Krasnyi Luch (1920)
- Lugansk → Voroshylovhrad (1935) → Luhansk (1958) → Voroshylovhrad (1970) → Luhansk (1990)
- Aleksandrovka → Petro-Maryevka (1865) → Pervomaisk (1920)
- Kadiyevka → Sergo (1937) → Kadiivka (1940) → Stakhanov (1978)
- Odessa
- Ophiusa → Asperon → Moncastro → Akkerman (1503) → Cetatea Albă (1918) → Bilhorod-Dnistrovsky (1944)
- Buh Khutirs → Illichivsk (1952)
- Birzula → Kotovsk (1935)
- Hacibey → Odessa (1794)
- Mykolaiv
- Fedorivka → Fiodorovka (1776) → Novaya Odessa (1832) → Nova Odesa (1989)
- Kara Kerman → Özi → Ochakov (1792) → Ochakiv (1989)
- Orlyk → Orlovsky sconce (1743) → Yekaterinsky sconce (1770) → Olviopol (1781) → Pervomaisk (1919)
- Kostiantynivka-2 → Yuzhnoukrainsk (1987)
- Donetsk
- Bakhmut → Artemivsk (1924)
- Nelepovy → Artemove (1921)
- Yuzovka → Trotsk (1924) → Stalino (1924) → Donetsk (1961)
- Nova Khrestovka → Kirovske (1958)
- Karakybbud → Komsomolske (1949)
- Grishyno → Postysheve → Krasnoarmiisk (1938)
- Dmitriyevsk → Makiivka (1931)
- Mariupol → Zhdanov (1948) → Mariupol (1989)
- Karlo-Libknekhtovsk → Soledar (1991)
- Bannoe → Banne (1929) → Bannovske (1938) → Slovianohirsk (1964) → Sviatohirsk (2003)
- Tor → Sloviansk (1784)
- Dnipropetrovsk
- Kamyanske → Dniprodzerzhynsk (1936)
- Yekaterinoslav → Novorossiysk (1797) → Yekaterinoslav (1802) → Dnipropetrovsk (Dnepropetrovsk; 1926)
- Mykytyne → Slovyanske (1775) → Nikopol (1781)
- Samara → Novomoskovsk (1782)
- Shakhtarske → Pershotravensk (1960)
- Kharkiv
- Konstantingrad → Krasnohrad (1922)
- Lykhachove → Pervomaiskyi (1952)
- Zmiiv → Zmeyev (1656) → Hotvald (1976) → Zmiiv (1990)
- Lviv
- Lviv → Lwów (1356) → Lemberg (1772) → Lwów (1918) → Lviv (1939)
- Żółkiew (until 1939) → Zhovkva → Nesterov (1951) → Zhovkva (1992)
- Volyn
- Lutsk → Luchesk (1427) → Łuck (1569) → Lutsk (1795) → Mikhailogorod (1850) → Luck (1915) → Łuck (1919) → Lutsk (1939)
- Khmelnytsky
- Proskurov → Khmelnytskyi (1954)
- Ivano-Frankivsk
- Stanisławów → Stanislaviv (1939) → Ivano-Frankivsk (1962)
- Ternopil
- Tarnopol → Ternopil (1939)
- Uzhhorod
- Ungvar (1248) → Užhorod (1919) → Ungvar (1938) → Uzhhorod (1944)
- Kirovohrad
- Yelizavetgrad (1784) → Zinovyevsk (1924) → Kirovo (1934) → Kirovohrad (1939)
- Kherson
- Chapli → Askania (1828) → Askania Nova (1835)
- Oleshky → Alioshki (1802) → Tsiurupynsk (1928)
- Ali-Agok → Skadovskoye (1894) → Skadovsk (1933)
- Holy → Golaya Pristan (1786) → Hola Prystan (1923)
- Geniczi → Genichesk (1784) → Henichesk (1923)
United Kingdom
England
- Aquae Sulis → Bath
- Brycgstow → Bristol
- Camulodunum → Colchester
- Cantiacorum → Durovurnum → Canterbury
- Deva → Caester → Chester
- Dubris → Dover
- Durnovaria → Dorchester
- Efrawg → Eboracum/Eburacum → Eoferwic → Jorvik → York
- Glevum → Gloucester
- Isca Dumnoniorum → Exeter
- Cambodunum → Loidis → Leodis → Leedes → Leeds
- Lindum Colonia → Lincoln
- Londinium → Lundenwic → Lundenburgh → London
- Luguvallium → Caerluel → Carlisle
- Pons Aelius → Monkchester → Newcastle upon Tyne
- Ratae Corieltauvorum → Kaerleir → Leicester
- Tigguo Cobauc → Snottingaham → Nottingham
Scotland
- Arderyth → Airdrie
- Aberbrothock → Arbroath
- Inverayr → Ayr
- Alclud → Ail Chluaidh → Dumbarton
- Alec-tum → Dùn Dèagh → Dundee
- Dùn Phàrlain → Dunfermline
- Dun Eideann → Edinburgh
- Glascu → Glasgow
- Cadzow → Hamilton
- Inbhir Uraidh → Inverury → Inverurie
- Jeddart → Jedburgh
- Kirkcaudy → Kirkcaldy
- Lithgae → Linlithgow
- Pasgill → Paisley
- St John's Toun (St Johnstone) → Perth
- Newark → Port Glasgow
- Cell Rígmonaid → Kilrymont → Muckross → St Andrews
- Strivelyn → Stirling
- Cambusnethan → Wishawtown → Wishaw
United States
- Alburquerque → Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Alexandria → Jackson, Tennessee
- Atkins Bank → Kingston → Kinston → Caswell → Kinston, North Carolina
- Campbellton + Cross Creek → Fayetteville, North Carolina
- Charleston → St. Charles, Illinois
- Charles Towne → Charleston, South Carolina
- Clark → DISH, Texas
- Cleaveland → Cleveland, Ohio
- Cowford → Jacksonville, Florida
- Dearborn → Chicago, Illinois
- Earpville → Longview, Texas
- East Detroit → Eastpointe, Michigan
- Fort Duquesne → Fort Pitt → Pittsburgh → Pittsburg → Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Fletcher → Aurora, Colorado
- Fort Orange → Albany → Willemstad → Albany, New York
- Gay Head → Aquinnah, Massachusetts
- Gamble's Mill → Shelby, Ohio
- Gorbit → Kit → Irving, Texas
- Great Salt Lake City → Salt Lake City, Utah
- Hot Springs → Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
- Jernigan → Orlando, Florida
- Kingston → Conwayborough → Conway, South Carolina
- Lancaster → Lincoln, Nebraska
- Losantiville → Cincinnati, Ohio
- Marysville → Corvallis, Oregon
- Mauch Chunk → Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
- New Amsterdam → New York → New Orange → New York City, New York
- North Tarrytown → Sleepy Hollow, New York
- Pig’s Eye → St. Paul, Minnesota
- Plantation of Penacook → Rumford → Concord, New Hampshire
- Providence → Anne Arundel Towne → Annapolis, Maryland
- Saint Petersburg Beach → St. Pete Beach, Florida
- Sellstown → Dublin, Ohio
- Sing Sing → Ossining, New York
- Spokan Falls → Spokane, Washington
- Swilling's Mill → Hellinwg Mill → Mill City → East Phoenix → Phoenix, Arizona
- Terminus → Marthasville → Atlanta, Georgia
- Todos Santos → Concord, California
- Vermilionville → Lafayette, Louisiana
- Waterloo → Austin, Texas
- Wineville → Mira Loma, California
- Wintonbury → Bloomfield, Connecticut
- Yerba Buena → San Francisco, California
Uzbekistan
See List of renamed cities in Uzbekistan
- Karmine → Navoiy (1958)
- Rishdan → Kuybishevo → Rishtan (1977)
- Leninsk → Asaka (1938)
- Maracanda → Samarqand
- Novy Margelan → Skobelev (1910) → Farg'ona (1924)
- Qarabagish → Sovetobod (1972) → Xonobod
Venezuela
- Angostura → Ciudad Bolívar (1846)
- Santiago de León de Caracas → Caracas
Vietnam
- Tourane → Đà Nẵng (Da Nang)
- Tống Bình → Long Đỗ → Đại La → Thăng Long → Đông Đô → Đông Kinh → Bắc Thành → Thăng Long → Hà Nội (Hanoi)
- Hai Pho → Faifo → Hội An (Hoi An)
- Prey Nokor → Gia Ðịnh → Saigon → Thành Phố Hồ Chí Minh (Ho Chi Minh City)
- Phu Xuan → Huế (Huế)
- Ke Van → Ke Vinh → Vinh Giang → Vinh Doanh → Vinh Thi → Vinh
Zimbabwe (all 1982)
- Enkeldoorn → Chivhu
- Essexvale → Esigodini
- Fort Victoria → Masvingo (briefly called Nyanda)
- Gatooma → Kadoma
- Gwelo → Gweru
- Hartley → Chegutu
- Marandellas → Marondera
- Matopos → Matobo
- Melsetter → Chimanimani
- Que Que → Kwekwe
- Salisbury → Harare
- Selukwe → Shurugwi
- Shabani → Zvishavane
- Sinoia → Chinhoyi
- Umtali → Mutare
- Wankie → Hwange
Sources and references
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- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
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(help) - Westermann, Großer Atlas zur Weltgeschichte (in German)
- City of Melbourne Web site [6]
- Ballarat history [7]
- Of Bangalore, Bengaluru and Belagavi [8]
- "Pandektis: Name Changes of Settlements in Greece". Retrieved 27 April 2009. [dead link] List compiled by the (Greek) National Documentation Centre (EKT)
- ^ a b c d Town name changes in Mpumalanga (Unknown), News24, 2009, retrieved 14 August 2010
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ignored (help) - ^ www.sa-venues.com - Bottom paragraph states that the town was renamed in 2004.
- ^ Road signs still point to the town as 'Makhado' despite the name being officially reverted
- ^ http://www.sabcnews.co.za/portal/site/SABCNews/menuitem.5c4f8fe7ee929f602ea12ea1674daeb9/?vgnextoid=c1ef6134bbc54210VgnVCM10000077d4ea9bRCRD&vgnextfmt=default
- ^ Signs are mixed, some say Bela Bela, some say Warmbaths
- ^ http://www.melbourne.vic.gov.au/info.cfm?top=52&pg=703
- ^ http://www.ballarat.com/history.htm
- ^ http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/feb/20name.htm
See also