List of City Name Changes - Italy

Italy

See also: Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto Adige

From history, most Italian cities have Latin names, some have Greek or Etruscan names.

  • Akragas → Agrigentum → Girgenti → Agrigento
  • Ariminum → Rimini
  • Augusta Taurinorum → Turin (Torino)
  • Barium → Bari
  • Beneventum → Benevento
  • Bergomum → Bergamo
  • Brixia → Brescia
  • Brundisium → Brindisi
  • Carales → Cagliari
  • Comum → Como
  • Consentia → Cosenza
  • Drepanum → Trapani
  • Felsina → Bononia → Bologna
  • Florentia → Florence (Firenze)
  • Genua → Genoa (Genova)
  • Henna → Castrogiovanni → Enna
  • Kroton → Crotona → Crotone
  • Lavinium → Lavinio
  • Littoria → Latina
  • Mediolanum → Milan (Milano)
  • Messana → Messina
  • Mussolinia di Sardegna → Arborea
  • Mutina → Modena
  • Neapolis → Napolis → Naples (Napoli)
  • Olbia → Terranova Pausania → Olbia
  • Panormus → Palermo
  • Patavium → Padua (Padova)
  • Pisae → Pisa
  • Placentia → Piacenza
  • Potentia → Potenza
  • Rhegium → Reggio di Calabria
  • Roma → Colonia Lucia Annia Commodiana → Rome (Roma)
  • Salernum → Salerno
  • Syrakusai → Siracusa
  • Taras → Tarentum → Taranto
  • Vicetia → Vicenza

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