Italy
See also: Prontuario dei nomi locali dell'Alto AdigeFrom 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
Read more about this topic: List Of City Name Changes
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—D.H. (David Herbert)
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