Q: Which town or city was formerly known as ... ? |
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Aix–la–Chapelle (when part of France) |
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Aachen |
Philadelphia (roughly during the first three centuries AD) |
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Amman |
Bathurst (until 1973) |
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Banjul |
Pressburg (until 1919 – as part of the German Empire) |
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Bratislava |
Karl–Marx–Stadt (1953–90) – major industrial city in Saxony (East Germany) |
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Chemnitz |
Madras (from its foundation by the British in 1639, until 1996) |
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Chennai |
Kishinev (an Anclicised version of its Russian name) |
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Chisinau |
Queenstown (Irish port) (1845–1922) |
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Cobh |
Axelhuus |
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Copenhagen |
Palmerston (1869–1911) |
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Darwin |
Originally known as Yuzovka, after the Welsh industrialist John Hughes who founded it in 1872, and
known from 1924 until 1961 as Stalin |
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Donetsk |
Kingstown (Irish port) (1821–1921) |
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Dun Laoghaire |
Svedlovsk (between 1918 and 1991) |
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Ekaterinburg |
Danzig (until 1945) |
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Gdansk |
Canton |
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Guangzhou |
Salisbury (until 1992) |
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Harare |
Saigon (until 1975) |
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Ho Chi Minh City |
Byzantium (until 330 AD); New Rome from 330 AD, Constantinople from after 337, but increasingly rarely locally
from about the 10th century, and until about 1930 elsewhere) |
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Istanbul |
Batavia (1619–1942) |
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Jakarta |
Königsberg (until 1946, when part of Prussia, and later Germany; now an exclave of Russia) |
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Kaliningrad |
Bishop's Lynn |
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King's Lynn |
Leopoldville (until 1966) |
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Kinshasa |
Lourenço Marques (until 1975) |
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Maputo |
Bombay |
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Mumbai |
Fort–Lamy (1900–73) |
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N'Djamena |
New Amsterdam (from its foundation by the Dutch in 1626, until 1664; renamed after the future King
James II of England); New Orange (1673-4, after being briefly recaptured by the
Dutch) |
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New York |
Gorky (1932–90) – his birthplace |
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Nizhny Novgorod |
Godthaab (until 1979 – capital of Greenland) |
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Nuuk |
Christiania (from 1624; spelt Kristiania, by the Government from 1877 and by the city authorities from 1897;
known by its mediaeval name since 1925) |
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Oslo |
Bytown |
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Ottawa |
St. Johnstoun |
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Perth |
Petrograd (1914–24); Leningrad (1924–91) |
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St. Petersburg |
's–Gravenhage (literally "the count's hedge") |
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The Hague |
Edo (until 1868) |
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Tokyo |
Tsaritsyn (1598–1925), Stalingrad (1925–61) |
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Volgograd |
Breslau (from the 15th century, until after World War II – as part of the German Empire) |
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Wrocław |
Rangoon (until 1989) |
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Yangon |