Place name changes

It's not just about its colonial past. Here's what India's possible name ...

India has changed the names of many of its towns and cities over the years. The port city and one-time capital Calcutta became Kolkata in ...

A derogatory term for Native women will be removed from place ...

The decision to change public names of sites has a long precedent: In 1962, the Interior Department ordered the renaming of places with ...

Changing Your Name? How to Place a Public Notice - Column

This guide will walk you through the legal process of changing your name and how to place a public notice in a newspaper.

Movement to change racist names on public lands moves forward

U.S. Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland recently banned one of many racist place names from public lands. Tell her that you support this ...

What's Old is News - Changing Place Names - RSS.com

Lauren Beck, author of Canada's Place Names & How to Change Them, joins the show to talk about the debate over changing names.

The changing of historic place names - The Library of Congress

About this Item ; Title. The changing of historic place names, ; Names. Donehoo, George Patterson, 1862- [from old catalog]; Shoemaker, Henry Wharton, 1880- [from ...

Republicans bash bill to change offensive landmark names

The “Reconciliation in Place Names Act,” H.R. 4454, from Rep. Al Green (D-Texas), would task Interior with establishing a new process for ...

The Living Legacy of Names | The Current - UC Santa Barbara

For over a century Native American groups, like the Blackfeet and Lakota, have called for changing place names at national parks and monuments.

10 towns that changed their name - Telegraph

Its producers offered to host the show in the first town that would change its name to Truth or Consequences. Hot Springs, New Mexico, was the ...

28 name changes approved for Colorado places - Denver - 9News

The US government on Thursday quit using a racist term for a Native American woman by renaming hundreds of peaks, lakes, streams and other geographical ...

Renaming of Colorado historical landmarks is underway

... changes to other derogatory geographic and federal place names. ... names and name controversies of geographic features and public places ...

Former Place Names - Fact Monster

Former Place Names · Abyssinia, an ancient African kingdom, became Ethiopia. · Angora, the home of angora goats, became Ankara, the capital of Turkey. · Bohemia ...

Name changes coming for New Zealand place names

New Zealanders will soon be able to have their say on a few towns and place names around our motu. The New Zealand Geographic Board/Ngā Pou Taunaha o ...

California to remove derogatory term for Indigenous women ... - CNN

The updated place names are expected to go in effect by January 1, 2025. The upcoming changes are part of nationwide efforts to examine and ...

How are NZ's place names changed – and who makes that decision?

Ngāti Whātua Orākei has proposed restoring the traditional Māori name, Te Tōangaroa, to the currently unnamed area along Auckland's waterfront.

Words are monuments: Patterns in US national park place names ...

Place names in US national parks that continue to extend settler colonialism myths, such as the uninhabited wilderness myth, perpetuate white ...

Interior Department renames 26 places in Alaska to remove ... - KTOO

A year later, voters in the city of Barrow decided to change the community's official name to Utqiaġvik, its Iñupiaq name. To broaden the search ...

List of city name changes - Academic Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

This is a list of cities which changed their name over the course of history. see also: Names of European cities in different languages.

Place Names | GeoNOVA - Government of Nova Scotia

Names evolve over time and new names or name changes can be proposed. Name Applications may be submitted by anyone. Proposals are reviewed and may be approved ...

Dictionary, Census of Population, 2021 – Place name (PN)

Since 2011, the term "place name" has been replaced by the term "locality". Prior to 2011, the term "locality" was used to describe historical ...