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  2. List of city name changes - Wikipedia

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    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, List of names of European cities in different languages, and List of renamed places in the United States

  3. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    Cheyenne (from the French pronunciation and spelling of the Dakota word Sahi'yena, a diminutive of Sahi'ya, a Dakotan name for the Cree people. [188]) Cheyenne River; Dubois (named after U.S. Senator Fred Dubois, of French-Canadian ancestry) Fontenelle; Fort Laramie; Fremont County (named for John C. Frémont, French-American pioneer and ...

  4. List of politically motivated renamings - Wikipedia

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    The German Spitz was renamed the American Eskimo Dog. In 1918, the town of Germania, Iowa, was renamed Lakota, Iowa. In 1918, the town of New Berlin, Ohio, was renamed North Canton, Ohio. [17] Sauerkraut was marketed in the US as "liberty cabbage." Salisbury steak was used as an alternative name for hamburgers.

  5. List of renamed places in the United States - Wikipedia

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    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. It also generally does not include differences due to a change in status, for example, a "River Bluff Recreation Area ...

  6. Geographical renaming - Wikipedia

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    Eisenhüttenstadt, Germany, was founded as Stalinstadt after World War II to settle displaced people from the former eastern German territories, and was renamed during the De-Stalinization period in the Soviet Union. Faisalabad was known as Lyallpur (until the 1970s) in Pakistan. Flores, Guatemala. Formerly known as Santa María de los Remedios ...

  7. List of cities in the Americas by year of foundation - Wikipedia

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    Oldest continuously inhabited English settlement in North America. Founded in 1613 as Bermuda City by Thomas Dale. 1614: Albany, New York: New York: United States: Oldest US settlement north of Virginia and second oldest state or territorial capital in the continental United States, incorporated 1686 1614 Sirinhaém: Pernambuco: Brazil

  8. List of former national capitals - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of such cities, sorted by country and then by date. Where a city name has changed, the name of the city when it was a capital is listed first, followed by its modern name in brackets. This list is incomplete ; you can help by adding missing items .

  9. List of North American settlements by year of foundation

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    In 1668, French Jesuit missionaries renamed it as Sault Sainte-Marie, and established a mission settlement (present-day Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan) on the river's south bank. Later, a fur trading post was established and the settlement expanded to include both sides of the river.