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xX_fnord_Xx, Even old New York used to be New Amsterdam…
1hitsong, 
Why they changed it?
UncleSnakes, I can’t say, people just liked it better that way.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In,
HootinNHollerin, (edited ) Originally Dutch colony, then English colony
redbeardgecko, Istanbul, not Constantinople!
ErectSunshine, My favorite is East Palestine, Ohio, named for being east of Palestine, Ohio. It is very far west of Palestine.
itslilith, 
even further east of Palestine
sukhmel, No one even mentioned Georgia, the country that constantly gets advertising targeted for Georgia, the state.
Smoogs, (edited ) Tbf a lot of the ‘new[city]’ was given their names by the British empire expanding their land. Just look at Australian state names… The Americans doing this in more recent times are simply following suit.
Fedizen, (edited ) texas didnt even bother adding the “new”
Also Canada did this a bunch too
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