List of city name changes
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This is a list of cities who changed their name over the course of history.
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Belgium
Canada
British Columbia
Manitoba
- Prince of Wales Fort > Churchill
New Brunswick
- Fort LaTour > Saint John
- Léger Corner > Dieppe
- Ste. Anne's Point > Fredericton
Nunavut
- 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
- Sainte-Anne-des-Pins > Sudbury > Greater Sudbury
- Shipman's Corners > St. Catharines
- Toronto > York > Toronto
Prince Edward Island
- Port la Joie > Charlottetown
Québec
- Hochelaga > Ville Marie > Mount Royal > Montréal
- Stadacona > Québec City
Saskatchewan
- Pile of Bones > Regina
China
- Ji > Yanjing > Zhongdu > Dadu > Jingshi > Beijing (AKA Peking) > Beiping (AKA Peiping) > Beijing
Croatia
Czech Republic
- Německý Brod > Havlíčkův Brod
- Zlín > Gottwaldov > Zlín
Estonia
Finland
- Helsingfors > Helsinki
France
- Antipolis > Antibes
- Aquae Sextiae > Aix-en-Provence
- Arausio > Orange
- Arelate > Arles
- Argentoratum > Strassburg > Strasbourg
- Augustodunum > Autun
- Augustonemetum > Clermont-Ferrand
- Autricum > Carnotum > Chartres
- Avennio > Avignon
- Burdigala > Bordeaux
- Caesarodunum > Tours
- Carcaso > Carcassonne
- Cenabum > Orléans
- Cularo > Gratianopolis > Grenoble
- Durocortum > Reims
- Gesoriacum > Bononia > Boulogne
- Limonum > Poitiers
- Lugdunum > Lyon
- Lutetia > Paris
- Massilia > Marseille
- Mediolanum Aulercorum > Évreux
- Metis > Metz
- Narbo > Narbonne
- Nemausus > Nîmes
- Noviodunum Aeduorum > Nevirnum > Nevers
- Senones > Sens
- Tolosa > Toulouse
- Turnacum Nerviorum > Tournai
- Valentia > Valence
- Vienna > Vienne
Germany
- Aquisgranium > Aix-la-Chapelle > Aachen
- Augusta Trevirorum > Trier
- Augusta Vindelicorum > Augsburg
- Aurelia Aquensi > Baden-Baden
- Batavis > Passau
- Bona > Bonn
- Castellum apud Confluentes > Koblenz
- Castra Regina > Regensburg
- Chemnitz > Karl-Marx-Stadt > Chemnitz
- Colonia Agrippina > Cologne (Köln)
- Colonia Nemetum > Speyer
- Constantia > Konstanz
- Fürstenberg (Oder) > Stalinstadt > Eisenhüttenstadt
- Moguntiacum > Mainz
- Sorviodurum > Straubing
India
- Madras > Chennai
- Qila Rai Pithora > Siri > Tughluqabad > Jahanpanah > Kotla Firoz Shah > Purana Qila > Shahjahanabad > Delhi
- Fort William > Calcutta > Kolkata
- Mumba > Boa Baia > Bombay > Mumbai
- Poona > Pune
Iran
- Ecbatana > Hamadan
Israel
- Acre > Akko
- Ashkelon > Ascalon > Ashqelon
- Joppa > Jaffa > Tel Aviv-Yafo
Italy
- Agrigentum > Agrigento
- Beneventum > Benevento
- Bononia > Bologna
- Brundisium > Brindisi
- Carales > Cagliari
- Crotona > Crotone
- Florentia > Florence (Firenze)
- Genua > Genoa (Genova)
- Mediolanum > Milan (Milano)
- Messana > Messina
- Mutina > Modena
- Neapolis > Naples (Napoli)
- Panormus > Palermo
- Pisae > Pisa
- Rhegium > Reggio di Calabria
- Syracuse > Siracusa
- Taras > Tarentum > Taranto
Japan
Kazakhstan
Kyrgyzstan
- Pishpek > Frunze > Bishkek
Lithuania
Malaysia
Jesselton>Kota Kinabalu
Netherlands
- Noviomagus Batavodurum > Nijmegen
- Traiectum ad Mosam > Maastricht
- Traiectum Eriditum > Utrecht
Norway
- Oslo > Christiania > Oslo
Paraguay
- Puerto Flor de Lis > Puerto Presidente Stroessner > Ciudad del Este
Poland
- Gyddanyzc > Danzig > Gdańsk
- Katowice > Kattowitz > Katowice
- Olsztyn > Allenstein > Olsztyn
- Poznań > Posen > Poznań
- Stettin > Szczecin
- Wortizława > Wrezławe > Wrocisław > Wrotsław > Breslau > Wrocław
Portugal
- Aeminium > Coimbra
- Bracara Augusta > Braga
- Conimbriga > Condeixa-a-Nova
- Iebora > Évora
- Olisipo > Al-Usbuna > Lisbon (Lisboa)
- Pax Iulia > Beja
- Portus Cale > Porto (Oporto)
- Sheberina > Serpa
- Sintara > Sintra
Romania
- Jassy > Iaşi
- Klausenburg > Kolozsvár > Cluj-Napoca
- Temesvár > Timişoara
Russia
See List of city name changes in Russia and Soviet Union
Serbia and Montenegro
- Cattaro > Kotor
- Naissus > Nis
- Singidunum > Belgrade
- Sirmium > Sremska Mitrovica
Slovakia
- Kaschau > Kosice
- Pressburg, Pozsony > Bratislava
Slovenia
- Laibach > Ljubljana
Spain
- Abula > Ávila
- Acci > Guadix
- Augusta Emerita > Mérida
- Barcino >Barcino Nova > Barcelona
- Brigantium > Caronium > Corunna > La Coruña > A Coruña
- Caesaraugusta > Zaragoza
- Carthago Nova > Cartagena
- Colonia Caecilia Metellinum > Medellín
- Colonia Iulia Romula > Hispalis > Seville (Sevilla)
- Colonia Norba Caesarina > Norba > Cáceres
- Colonia Patricia > Corduba > Córdoba
- Complutum > Alcalá de Henares
- Dertosa > Tortosa
- Dianinum > Denia
- Egara > Tarrasa > Terrassa
- Gades > Cádiz
- Gerunda > Gerona > Girona
- Ilerda > Lérida > Lleida
- Legio > León
- Lucentum > Alicante
- Lucus Augusti > Lugo
- Malaca > Málaga
- Onuba > Huelva
- Pompaelo > Pamplona
- Saguntum > Sagunto
- Salamantica > Salamanca
- Tarraco > Tarraco nova >Tarragona
- Toletum > Toledo
Syria
Tajikistan
Turkey
- Adrianople > Edirne
- Alexandretta > Iskenderun
- Amida > Diyarbakır
- Amisus > Samsun
- Ancyra > Angora > Ankara
- Antioch > Antakya
- Attalia > Adalia > Antalya
- Byzantium > Constantinople > Istanbul
- Edessa > Sanli Urfa (Şanlıurfa)
- Iconium > Konya
- Magnesia > Manisa
- Melitene > Malatya
- Nicaea > İznik
- Nicomedia > İzmit/Kocaeli
- Sinope > Sinop
- Smyrna > İzmir
- Theodosiopolis > Erzurum
- Trapezus > Trebizond > Trabzon
Ukraine
- Lwow > Lemberg > Lwow > Lvov > Lviv
- Stanislavov > Ivano-Frankivs'k
- Yekaterinoslav > Dnepropetrovsk > Dnipropetrovs'k
United Kingdom
England
- Aquae Solis > Bath
- Brycgstow > Bristol
- Camulodunum > Colchester
- Deva > Caester > Chester
- Dubris > Dover
- Durnovaria > Dorchester
- Durovurnum > Canterbury
- Efrawg > Eboracum/Eburacum > Eoferwic > Jorvik > York
- Glevum > Gloucester
- Isca Dumnoniorum > Exeter
- Lindum > Lincoln
- Londinium > Lundenwic > London
- Luguvallium > Carlisle
- Pons Aelius > Monkchester > Newcastle upon Tyne
- Ratae Coritanorum > Kaerleir > Leicester
- Tigguo Cobauc > Snottingaham > Nottingham
Northern Ireland
- Doire > Derry > Londonderry > Londonderry/Derry
Scotland
United States
- Alburquerque> Albuquerque, New Mexico
- Cleaveland > Cleveland, Ohio
- Dearborn > Chicago, Illinois
- Hot Springs, New Mexico > Truth or Consequences, New Mexico
- Jernigan > Orlando
- Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania > Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania
- New Amsterdam > New York
- New Orange > Albany
- North Tarrytown, New York > Sleepy Hollow, New York
- Wintonbury > Bloomfield, Connecticut
- Yerba Buena > San Francisco, Californiaru:Переименованные города