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**** Hitler, even though he was a native, always hated Austria and despised the Habsburgs' multi-national policies, so it's logical that, leaving aside pan-German sentiment, he'd want to abolish the idea of Austria as an independent entity.
* Many (former) colonial territories obviously fall into this trope, often with a touch of the [[Egopolis]]. Take for instance New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Carolina, Columbia, Maryland, Georgia, California (named after a fictional country), Montana, Washington, Louisiana, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, New England, New Mexico, Florida, and indeed America...
** And north of the border there's New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and British Columbia.
* Lands now known as Belarus were included into the Russian empire via a sequence of conquests, 1772-1795. Previously, there was some popularity to the idea that Russian tzar holds the "Great, Small and White Russias" (meaning Russia, Ukraine and Belarus), but in 1840 the word "Belarus" was forbidden, and replaced with/absorbed into a name with no implications of independence: "North-Western Region". The name was restored in 1918, when Belarussian and Jewish nationalist movements played a major role in the communist revolution.
* After the Franks invaded and conquered Gaul, the country was called France after them.
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** Same war, the renaming, post-fall, of Saigon to Ho Chi Minh City.
* Play along at home. See if you can guess which places these terms refer to before revealing the City name? (feel free to
** "Zone 1" {{spoiler|Central [[London]]}}
** "Area 495" {{spoiler|[[Washington DC|Washington D.C.]]}}
** "The 4-1-6" {{spoiler|[[Toronto]], named for the area code, as opposed to "The 9-oh-5" for the surrounding metro area}}
* Ghana was called Gold Coast when it was a British Colony, but they [[Please Select New City Name|changed their name to Ghana]] (after the ancient Empire of Ghana) to [[Genre Savvy|avoid this trope]] when they gained independence. Somewhat maddeningly for historians, the Empire of Ghana never controlled any part of the modern Republic of Ghana, and modern Ghana only has a relatively small population of the Soninke people who had ruled the former empire.
** Played straight, however, with the [[wikipedia:Ivory Coast|Côte d'Ivoire]], aka Ivory Coast.
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** And of course Königsberg (and has been called Kaliningrad since 1945), the old Prussian capital. Though unlike St. Petersburg, the chance of it being renamed back to Königsberg is pretty slim (or none), given that most of the native German population had been expelled/compelled to flee in 1945 and now its residents are largely ethnic Russians.
** The Soviets were mad keen on this trope:
*** Petrograd became Leningrad,
*** Yekaterinburg became Sverdlovsk,
*** Nizhny Novgorod became Gorky,
*** Tsaritsyn became Stalingrad,
*** Vyatka became Kirov,
*** Orenburg became Chakalov,
*** Samara became Kuibyshev,
*** Tver became Kalinin,
*** Vladimirovka became Yuzho-Sakhalinsk
*** Ekaterinodar became Krasnodar.
** That's just in Russia, though. They also turned:
*** Bishkek into Frunze,
*** Chemnitz into Karl-Marx-Stadt,
*** Dobrich into Tolbukhin,
*** Dushanbe into Stalinabad,
*** Kantowice into Stalinogroed,
*** Khodjend into Leninabad,
*** Kuressaare into Kringssepa,
*** Montana (Bulgaria) into Mihalyovgrad,
*** Podgorica into Titograd,
* A lighter example is how the U.S. congressional district names go along the lines of [State]'s [Number] Congressional District- in contrast to the U.K.
▲{{quote|Naturally, this led to a massive repeat performance when the Communist regimes collapsed and most of the cities were given their old names back. }}
▲* A lighter example is how the U.S. congressional district names go along the lines of [State]'s [Number] Congressional District- in contrast to the U.K., the country it descended from, which gives each of its 650 parliamentary constituencies unique names.
* Spain basically renamed the Aztec lands to New Spain (later Mexico) and the Incan lands to Peru after conquering them.
* [[Hollywood History|Popular history]] seems to think this is what happened to Constantinople/Byzantium, now Istanbul, after the Ottoman conquests in the 15th century. Actually an aversion, the preferred official term was ''Kostantiniyye'', the Turkish word (via Arabic) for "Constantinople". Istanbul wasn't the official name for the city until the modern Republic of Turkey was founded in 1923, though it had become the most common name amongst the populace before then.
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