i sincerely doubt that: they would NEVER change the name from one of the most important figures in Texas history, i don't care HOW powerful Howard Hughes was. "Hugheston" would be a satirical/derisive name referring to his dominance of the city instead.Okay, Howard Hughes does NOT leave Houston. Instead he spends most of his lunacy into finding dubious historical documents that on its founding in 1835 Houston was actually named Hughes-Town in honor of his grand-grandfather. As a reward for getting NASA to set up shop in his backyard, he gets the city renamed to its 'original' name Hugheston.
personally, i prefer VandaliaWest Virginia could have been named Westylvania. Still one of my favorite proposed state names.
anyway, here's some that i've come up with for my ASB ATL:
- some cities with Spanish-language names are changed during the various Spanish-American Wars partly because of irrational nationalist fervor during those times, but in the US they usually change back after the war while in the Aztec Empire they don't. examples include Angel City (Los Angeles), New Assisi (San Francisco, after the home of the city's namesake, Saint Francis), Holy Faith (Santa Fe; the change is permanent ITTL), Saint John (San Juan), North Pass (Ciudad Juarez
- Mt. McKinley as Mt. Denali, the original native name (though for my TL the name is up in the air and may be named after whoever is POTUS during McKinley's OTL term)
- the British Raj may be collectively known as Pondicherry (i can't remember what prompted me to add this to my notes, though); other options for the same region include Chennai=Madras, Kolkata=Calcutta, Kozhikhode=Calicut, Sri Lanka=Ceylon
- a whole bunch of Roman-inspired names: Alcester=Alauna, Algiers=Icosium, Buxton=Aqua Arnemetiae (which may evolve in-universe into just Arnemet), Carmarthen=Moridunum (which may eventually become just Moridun), Dover=Dubris, Gloucester=Glevum/Glouvia, Leicester=Coritan, London=Londinium (which might become London anyway, or alternatively Londin), Newcastle upon Tyne=Pons Aelius (which could evolve into Ponsaelius or Ponsalius), Reading=Readingum (which may eventually become Reading anyway); Rochester has a convoluted history, going from Durobrivae to Durobrivis to Dorobrevis to Robrivis
- Atlanta has two possibilities, either Marthasville or Terminus
- Brighton may be Brighthelmstone, though it might evolve into Brighton anyway (or alternatively Brighthelm)
- an obvious choice for a TL which doesn't have communist Vietnam is Ho Chi Minh City keeping its original name of Saigon
- two options i found concerning Kyoto were Heian-kyo and Saikyo
- some colonial African possibilities are Muranga'a=Fort Hall, Nyahururu=Thompson Falls
- some straight Spanish language possibilities are Pasadena=Rancho San Pascual, San Diego=San Miguel, San Francisco=Yerba Buena
- some Middle Eastern decisions i made include Tel Aviv being Jaffa (or Joppa) because Israel doesn't exist ITTL, the UAE being known as the Trucial Sheikdoms (and variations)
- changes to Russian cities include Volgograd=Tsaritsyn
- Winchester is known as Wintanbael
- Georgia is called Sacartia, an alternate Anglicization of Sakartvelo (the Georgian name for Georgia)
- Melbourne is either Bearbrass or Batmania (i'm going with Bearbrass because Batmania sounds silly
before anyone asks, it was named after the founder, John Batman)
- Montreal is Hochlega, after teh original Iroquoian fortified town that the city was built over
- Casablanca is Casabranca, after the original Portuguese name
- Morocco is Marrakesh, at least in English, after the capital city
- New Guinea is Schouten Island, the original Dutch name for the island
- i can't remember exactly why, but i decided on the alternate name of Statenland for New Zealand ITTL
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