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Prairie City → Toledo — in Cumberland County; name now used by Prairie City, McDonough County; Prospect Park → Glen Ellyn — in DuPage County; Rand → Des Plaines — in Cook County; Randall → East Galesburg — in Knox County; Rantoul → Alma — in Marion County; name now used by Rantoul, Champaign County; Reeves → Cambria — in ...
Some of these local name changes were changes made in all languages: the immediate local name, and also all India's other languages. An example of this is the renaming of predominantly Hindi-speaking Uttaranchal (Hindi: उत्तराञ्चल) to a new local Hindi name (Hindi: उत्तराखण्ड Uttarakhand). Other changes ...
East Punjab to Punjab (change effective from 26 January 1950; state later trifurcated into modern-day Haryana, Himachal Pradesh and Punjab under the Punjab Reorganisation Act, 1966; Chandigarh became a Union territory and the shared capital city of Punjab and Haryana) [1] [2] United Provinces to Uttar Pradesh (change effective from 24 January 1950)
This partial list of city nicknames in India compiles the aliases, sobriquets and slogans that cities in India are known by (or have been known by) historically, officially, or unofficially, to locals, outsiders, or their tourism chambers of commerce.
Place names in India are usually in Indian languages. Other languages include Portuguese, Dutch, English and Arabic. Since Indian Independence, several Indian cities have adopted pre-English names, most notably Chennai (formerly Madras), Mumbai (formerly Bombay), Kolkata (formerly Calcutta), Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), Visakhapatnam (formerly Waltair), and Pune (formerly Poona).
This is a list of cities in Asia that have several names in different languages, including former names.Many cities have different names in different languages. Some cities have also undergone name changes for political or other reasons.
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World War I: the Ontario city of Berlin was renamed Kitchener [12] and the Saskatchewan town of Strassburg was renamed Strasbourg. [13] Cold War: the Ontario Stalin Township was renamed by Ontario legislature in 1986 to Hansen Township. [13] [14] United States: World War I: The German Spitz was renamed the American Eskimo Dog.