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Not likely in the digital age perhaps, but I'm sure there must have been places that have got their names changed because tertiary resources called them thus.

And of course there is the classic “you are now called 'X' because I've got a (bigger) gun and/or bring [what I consider superior] civilization”, but that's a rather different beast (e.g., Formosa, Batavia, New Zealand, Ayers Rock).



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