Alternate Names for Modern Cities

What counts as an alternate name? For instance Edinburgh (English) is also called Embra (Scots) and Dun Eideann (Gaelic). Do these count as different names? Or are they simply different versions of the same name? Both positions are arguable. Especially since all 3 of these languages are native to the UK

This isn't really correct. "Embra" is what we (I'm an Edinbugger myself) actually say, and "Scots" in a modern context is usually phonetic rendering of the heavily Scots-influened colloquial English. Actual Scots, the language that was fading with Burns, has always called it the etymologically correct "Edwin's Burgh": the King's Wall charter, which is the earliest source I can think of off the top of my head (1450), calls it "Edynburgh".

And of course the last time Gaelic was native to Edinburgh (plenty before the UK existed), I wouldn't be surprised if some obscure west Slavic language was still native to Berlin, so if we were to call that a viable alternative, almost everywhere has almost any viable alternative depending on who conquers of colonises it.
 
That would be Wien if you're going by Germanizing city names. And either way, that's not funny at all.

He's just a poor boy, nobody loves him.

This isn't really correct. "Embra" is what we (I'm an Edinbugger myself) actually say, and "Scots" in a modern context is usually phonetic rendering of the heavily Scots-influened colloquial English. Actual Scots, the language that was fading with Burns, has always called it the etymologically correct "Edwin's Burgh": the King's Wall charter, which is the earliest source I can think of off the top of my head (1450), calls it "Edynburgh".

And of course the last time Gaelic was native to Edinburgh (plenty before the UK existed), I wouldn't be surprised if some obscure west Slavic language was still native to Berlin, so if we were to call that a viable alternative, almost everywhere has almost any viable alternative depending on who conquers of colonises it.

Lyndyn, Prydein?
 
Seattle - Denny (a terrible name but so Seattle would be considered so if it wasn't common to hear)

It would have been an even more terrible name if you tried to call information for the number for the Denny's in Denny :D

Denver, CO: Montana City, Auraria (settlements on the site of the modern city. Montana City is now a city park in Denver and Auraria is a neighborhood of Denver).
Ventura, CA could have kept its original Spanish name (San Buenaventura) but printing the city stationery probably became cheaper when the name was shortened. ;-)
 
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Besides, "Hong Kong" originally just meant the small area near the would-be Victoria Harbour, so in ATL the name of the whole region depends on the center of gravity of the local governance.
Surely, Aberdeen (Hong Kong Tsai 香港仔), was the original Hong Kong and the Gwai-lo just mistook the name as meaning the whole island, not just the bay.
 
San Antonio could have held onto its original Indian name, Yanaguana.

Or the Anglo colonists could've renamed it after the Alamo and attempts to ethnically cleanse the city of Mexicans, perhaps after one of the unwilling martyrs, as Crockett or Bowie. The latter would be esp unfortunate, naming a city after a man whose main vocation outside of inventing a knife was as a slave trader.
 
San Antonio could have held onto its original Indian name, Yanaguana.

Or the Anglo colonists could've renamed it after the Alamo and attempts to ethnically cleanse the city of Mexicans, perhaps after one of the unwilling martyrs, as Crockett or Bowie. The latter would be esp unfortunate, naming a city after a man whose main vocation outside of inventing a knife was as a slave trader.

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