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rhubarbnocustard
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22 Mar 2005, 9:04 am

MishLuvsHer2Boys wrote:
Istanbul (Constantinople)


Constantinople (Byzantium)

(Why did Constantinople get the works?)



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22 Mar 2005, 9:16 am

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Czech Republic - Czechoslovakia


What used to be called Czechoslovakia is now the Czech Republic and Slovakia - two seperate countries.



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22 Mar 2005, 4:46 pm

rhubarbnocustard wrote:
MishLuvsHer2Boys wrote:
Istanbul (Constantinople)


Constantinople (Byzantium)

(Why did Constantinople get the works?)


That's nobody's business but the Turks......


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23 Mar 2005, 2:34 am

Many European cities changed names and even countries after the two world wars.

The Prussian city Königsberg on the Baltic Sea is now the Russian enclave Kaliningrad. The German philosopher Immanuel Kant was born there. It is not far from the Polish city Gdansk, which used to be the Prussian city Danzig. The German writer Günther Grass ("The Tin Drum") and actor Klaus Kinski (known from several spaghetti westerns and Werner Herzog movies) were born there.

The German city Breslau is now the Polish city Wroclaw. Many of the Polish citizens came from the city Lwow, which is now the Ukrainian city L'viv (it used to be the Austrian city Lemberg before WWI).



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30 Mar 2005, 11:01 pm

Belize used to be British Hondouris.