> Renaming a city entirely seems to be fairly rare. If a conquerer speaks a
> different language, this may occur, but even then some common root is likely
> to remain.
> Most often you get a name shift (Castra Legio -> Chester, Colonia Agrippina
> - -> Cologne or Koeln, Eburacum -> York). I can come up with fewer examples
> for direct renaming of cities - Nieuw Amsterdam -> New York is my only
> non-communist example offhand, with Leningrad, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Gorki etc.
> fairly obvious.
Byzantium -> Constantinople -> Istanbul. Unless the latter is a Turkic equivalent to Constantinople, in which case, nevermind.
Trent
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