I have dreamed of this day!

**stuka f** · 02-01-2013, 07:08 AM

by sebfrench76

But Paris will for ever be Paris,héhéhé....

I remember it being" Pârrisss", but that lasted only for 4 years! ;-)
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**Wagriff** · 02-01-2013, 08:26 AM

Now Thailand could be renamed back to Siam....I like the name Siam better anyway...

**lithgow** · 02-01-2013, 11:03 AM

Sir Payne-my quote was from a popular song of the 1940s (carried on by HPL2008 in his post)-yes it was called Byzantium before being renamed in honour of Constantine the Great.

**command450** · 02-01-2013, 10:15 PM

Saigon-HO Chi Minh City.... and of interest most americans dont know it.... but the Vietnamese called the war,"The American War"

**Wagriff** · 02-02-2013, 02:59 AM

by Shadwellarmy

and Stalingrad/Volgograd, was once called Tsaritsyn......seems like a russian habit to name cities after rulers

True....but it was Tsaritsyn for Only 336 years, though....

**ObKrieger** · 02-02-2013, 03:08 AM

It's funny to think that someone looked at Bohemia one day and said, "You know, Bohemia is just way too complicated. Let's rename it Czechoslovakia!"

**Paul D** · 02-02-2013, 11:37 AM

70th Anniversary of the German surrender today , so today the City is once again Stalingrad !!

Nikto ne Zabyt . Nichto ne Zabyto. Let no one forget . Let nothing be forgotten.

**HPL2008** · 02-02-2013, 12:52 PM

by ObKrieger

It's funny to think that someone looked at Bohemia one day and said, "You know, Bohemia is just way too complicated. Let's rename it Czechoslovakia!"

Not to put too fine a point on it, but, err, well, you know... Bohemia was just a part of Czechoslovakia.

Czechoslovakia was actually a sensible and straightforward designation for the land of the Czechs and Slovaks.

Given that the new state was formed from Bohemia, Moravia-Silesia, Slovakia and Carpathian Ruthenia, they might as well have called it Bohmosislovcaruthiania...!