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  2. Sambhal district - Wikipedia

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    At the time of its creation, the state government decided to name the new district "Bhimnagar" in honour of the social reformer, Bhimrao Ambedkar. However, massive protests broke out in Sambhal town and the adjoining rural areas against the move to rename to the ancient town. [ 2 ]

  3. List of renamed places in India - Wikipedia

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    United Provinces to Uttar Pradesh (change effective from 24 January 1950) Andhra State , the Telugu -speaking part of Madras Presidency , attained statehood on 1 October 1953. Three years later, Hyderabad State was annexed and combined with Andhra State and it was renamed Andhra Pradesh on 1 November 1956.

  4. Name change - Wikipedia

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    Name change is the legal act by a person of adopting a new name different from their current name. The procedures and ease of a name change vary between jurisdictions

  5. The Orissa (Alteration of Name) Act, 2011 - Wikipedia

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    There has been an age long demand from various organizations as well as from civil society for change of the Name from Orissa to Odisha and Oriya to Odia; Odisha Cabinet for the 1st time resolved a proposal in this regard in June 2008. The move was passed in the Odisha Assembly on 28 August 2008.

  6. Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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    Changes in romanisation systems can result in minor or major changes in spelling in the Roman alphabet for geographical entities, even without any change in name pronunciation or spelling in the local alphabet or other writing system. Names in non-Roman characters can also be spelled very differently when Romanised in different European languages.

  7. Renaming of cities in India - Wikipedia

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    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 ).

  8. 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 racist views, or which are offensive to people who are not racist. 2025 Presidential executive order Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness , changing the name of part of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and changing the name of ...

  9. Deed of change of name - Wikipedia

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    Deeds that change a person's first name can be registered by the applicant in the Enrolment Books of the Senior Courts of England and Wales, which is located within the Royal Courts of Justice on Strand, London, and they are usually endorsed "Notwithstanding the decision of Mr Justice Vaisey in re Parrott, Cox v Parrott, the applicant wishes ...