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** Also from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', the Dwarven citadel of Khazad-dum ("Dwarf City", roughly) was known as Moria ("Black Pit") after the demonic Balrog awoke and drove the Dwarves out.
*** Tell that to Narvi and Celebrimbor, who wrote "Ennyn Durin aran Moria" on the west-door long before the Balrog appeared. Apparently the elves never much liked Khazad-dum.
* One of ''[[Private Eye]]''`s stock parodies is of an African tin-pot dictatorship called "Rumbabwe, formerly British [[Punny Name|Rumbabaland]]" (referencing Zimbabwe and Bechuanaland/Botswana)<ref>And [[w:Rum baba|rum babas]]</ref>. There are also less frequent parodies of other name changes, such as the Soviet ones.
* [[Strugatsky Brothers]] novel ''[[Hard to Be A God]]'', mentions a lot of villages being given more upbeat names in hopes of reforming them. It sounded like the attempt wasn't successful.
* In the ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Star Wars Expanded Universe|Expanded Universe]], this trope occurred on a massive scale when the extragalactic Yuuzhan Vong invaded the capital planet/global city of Coruscant, terraformed it into a humid jungle world, and renamed it Yuuzhan'tar, in an attempt to recreate their lost/destroyed original homeworld.
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* As part of the rich and complex history presented in ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'' series, many cities and countries have changed over the last Age. For instance, the city of Al'cair'rahienallen, "The Hill of the Golden Dawn," is now known as Cairhien, because it's so much less of a mouthful. Closer to the plot is an ancient city of Aridhol, which became consumed by its own evil and became known as Shadar Logoth, "The Shadow's Waiting."
* In ''[[Tigana]]'' by [[Guy Gavriel Kay]], the titular city-state is much damaged and renamed Lower Corte years before the opening of the book. Even the memory of that name is magically expunged from virtually everyone who didn't live there. The main plot of the book is about a quest to restore the city and its name.
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