Naming Disputes
- British Isles naming dispute
- The Hyphen War of 1990 – Czechoslovakia or Czecho-Slovakia?
- Denali naming dispute over the peak known as Mount McKinley
- Derry/Londonderry name dispute in Northern Ireland
- Indian renaming controversy
- Iran naming dispute starting in the 1930s
- Sea of Japan naming dispute
- Macedonia naming dispute
- Persian Gulf naming dispute starting in the 1960s
- Pretoria/Tshwane naming dispute over whether to change the city's name to a more Black African Tshwane, or keep its original name, Pretoria.
- Includes numerous naming disputes across South Africa ranging from streets to entire provinces. All of which are changing annually and are met with opposition.
- West Bank/Judea and Samaria, disputed both between Israelis and Palestinians and between political factions inside Israel
- Servia/Serbia, exact date unknown, but quietly changed in opening days of World War I, just after war declared by Austria-Hungary on Servia/Serbia
- Kosovo/Kosova disputed between Serbians and Albanians.
- Malvinas/Falkland Islands, disputed between Argentinians and British.
- Berlin to Kitchener name change, Canadian town's name changed during WWI
- Australian place names changed from German names during WWI
- Sønderjylland/Schleswig, disputed between Danes and Germans in the 19th Century
- New Zealand/Aotearoa
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Famous quotes containing the word naming:
“See, see where Christ’s blood streams in the firmament!
One drop would save my soul—half a drop! ah, my Christ!—
Ah, rend not my heart for naming of my Christ!—
Yet will I call on him!—O, spare me, Lucifer!—
Where is it now? ‘T is gone; and see where God
Stretcheth out his arm, and bends his ireful brows!—
Mountains and hills, come, come and fall on me,
And hide me from the heavy wrath of God!”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)