Old City Names
 

BEIJING: the capital of China formely known as Peking.

Paris: the capital of France's former name was Lutetia ( a tribe of Celtic people called Parisic founded the city and gave it the name Lutetia around the middle of the 3rd century BC.

Seoul: When it was the capital of the entire Korea under Japenese rule during 1910-45, it was known as Keijo.

Vienna: the capital of Austria was called Vindobona.

Yangons, the capital of Burma now Myanmar was Yangon.

Tokyo: once for a shortwhile when it became the capital of Japan in 1868, it was Edo, renamed Tokyo the same year.

Chennai: India's fifth largest city- Madras.

Faisalabad: one of the Pakistans industrial cities, was formerly known as Lyalpur.

Ankaras: the capital of Turkey was called Angora.

Dushanbe: the capital of Tajikistan had another name from 1929-61 called Stalinabad.

MOST OF THE THINGS WORTH DOING IN THE WORLD HAD BEEN DECLARED IMPOSSIBLE BEFORE THEY WERE DONE.

some more changed Names are as follows:-

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1.Suriname Dutch Guinea
2.Indonesia Dutch East Indies
3.Istanbul Constantinople
4.Oslo Christiana
5.Ethopia Abyssinia
6.Akko Acre
7.Athens Athinai
8.Mumbai Bombay
9.Srilanka Ceylon
10.Iraq Mesopotamia
11.Madagascar Malagasy
12.St.Petersburg Leningrad
13.Bangkok Krugn Thep
14.Taiwan Formosa
15.N'Djamena Fort Lamy
16.Bishkek Frunze
17.Netherlands Holland
18.Cambodia Kampuchea
19.Cologne Koin
20.Vienna Austria
21.Burkina Faso Upper Volta
22.Antananarivo Tananarive
23.Sahiwal Montgomery
24.Burma Myanmar
25.Kamataka Mysore
26.Iran Persia
27.Bin Qasim Pipri
28.Zimbabwe Rhodesia
29.Harare Salisbury
30.Thailand Siam
31.Afghanistan Bactria
32.China Seres
33.Denmark Dania