Atlas altered
- POSTED ON: 14 Nov, 2020
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- POSTED BY: Bhavya Venkatesh
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Your name defines you. Can you imagine changing it suddenly? Well, throughout history, several cities and countries in the world have done just that.
Countries (and cities) change their names for various reasons — independence, war, change in government, and so on. When this happens, it takes some time for people to get used to the new name. Sometimes, people still think of the old name when they refer to the country. In other cases, places have always been known informally by another name which was later adopted officially.
It’s useful for you to know what some of these countries/cities used to be called in the past.